Our St. Nicholas Day Celebration
Yesterday, we had a delightful celebration of St. Nicholas. I managed to pull off a gluten free version of the pepparkakor cookies. They turned out practically identical to their non gluten-free counterparts. Mmmm, mmm, mmmmmm. Elise colored a color page of St. Nicholas and I told her all about him. We also read his story [...]
December’s Feasts and Festivities
6 – St. Nicholas: We plan on exchanging the bulk of our gifts (to each other and to the kids) on this day. Like last year, I want to make a batch of my most favorite cookies – peppakakur – using my mom’s recipe (which came from her mom). Although I get to experiment and [...]
December’s faith board
Now that it is December, Elise and I cleared off our faith board and set it up for December. I had a brilliant idea to put all my holy cards into baseball card holders, and while cleaning I found tabbed dividers for each month. I organized my holy cards per month based on feast day, [...]
Hearts for Home – November 30 Edition
Figure out a wheat-free menu plan for Elise. I checked out this book from the library and have found a lot of great recipes in it to try. Benedict’s Godmother sent us some wheat-free recipes, as well. I’ll post the menu once I figure it out. Clean up! Yesterday we had a water leak in [...]
Advent Activities
The two big things we’re doing for Advent are: * a Jesse tree, with handmade ornaments. I drew the outlines for the ornaments and let Elise color them. Again, we used the listing found in Meredith Gould’s The Catholic Home. They work well for us. We did our ornaments yesterday so we’re all set. * [...]
Hearts for Home – November 23 Edition
“In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home. In my weekly ‘Hearts for Home’ post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and [...]
Our Faith Board
I had this corkboard from when I was in college. I used it then to tack up pictures and to-do lists. When we moved up here, it kind of sat in our kitchen with a few verses from Sacred Scripture on it and a picture of the Resurrection.Every time I saw it, I thought “I [...]
November’s Feasts and Festivities
1 – All Saints Day: We really didn’t do anything on All Saints Day proper. We did have a fun time at Maria’s All Saints Day party the night before though! 2 – All Soul’s Day: I made some delicious tinga and we made sure we said some prayers for our dearly beloved. 21 – [...]
All Saints Fun!
Sunday we had the privledge of going to Maria’s amazing All Saints Day party. We all had a blast. Maria did an outstanding job with the party, despite the fact she could go into labor any day now. The party started with the Litany of Saints (long version). How beautiful it was to hear all [...]
Why, hello there!
I’m slightly giddy by the fact that Benedict’s sleeping last night went like this: 8:45pm: Asleep Midnight: Asleep! 2am: STILL ASLEEP! 5am: Pre-breakfast snack, followed up with more sleep And as of now (7am), he’s still sleeping. Since Benedict’s sleep was so well, mine went like this: 10pm: Asleep. Midnight: Asleep! 2am: STILL ASLEEP! 5am: [...]
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