Transitus Tiber

Life as a Catholic wife and mother

The Waiting Game

I did this with Elise’s birth, and I had a lot of fun with it; so may as well do it again. As noted on the ticker to the side, I’m down to the last week before the due date. I don’t have an induction scheduled but the Feast of the Annunciation is as far [...]

Milestones

We’ve been busy around here recently, mainly helping Elise make those next big steps in her life – sleeping sans crib. Her crib broke, so we took the opportunity to transition her to something without bars. We’ve had absolutely no problems with her new little sleeping set-up, and that’s a great blessing to be had. [...]

A Fruitful Lent

Today is the Third Monday of Lent, and I’ve had ample opportunity to reflect on how Lent has been thus far. One on hand, it’s been a harder Lent than usual, thanks to random bouts of Braxton-Hicks contractions, the effects on me physically, mentally, and spiritually that being this pregnant has had, and a few [...]

Catholicism and the Marines

Another one of those posts from the “better than I can say it” department: Why I Am Catholic: Because He Didn’t Promise Us A Rose Garden

Fools for Christ

One of the books I’m utilizing this Lent is Lenten Meditations with Fulton J. Sheen. Each day has a short quote from Archbishop Sheen, and a verse from Sacred Scripture that reflects what he’s trying to convey. I particularly like today’s: One of the beautiful effects of hope is that it relieves us of the [...]

Babble babble babble

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I had a great birthday – McNuggets, a bubble bath, and an early bedtime. Novel concept alert: going to bed early counteracts the 50978347683758274871895 times I wake up at night for the restroom, so I actually am (slowly) starting to feel less sleep-deprived. I still am ready for Little [...]

Still here, still pregnant

And am I an ornery pregnant lady, too. My hide is a little chappy because once again, we’re getting into that territory of “Elise is not doing X at her age, I’d like an evaluation done when she’s 2 if she’s not doing it by then.” We don’t agree that if X isn’t happening by [...]

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