Baby Update: Not So Good

Last night I had some major optimism when the spotting went away for a couple of hours. However, it returned around 10pm last night and has steadily progressed to light bleeding, to moderate bleeding with some slight cramping. Everything is pointing to miscarriage, despite seeing what we should be seeing yesterday. I haven’t actually passed [...]

Prayers for our newest addition?

Okay, so I had all these great ideas for writing this post. In fact, I started hinting about it – that’s what those two medical appointments are about. Obstetrical appointments. BABY APPOINTMENTS!! Any and all posts I had written in my head disappeared this afternoon, when I began spotting. And not ‘old blood’ spotting, either. [...]

Archbishop Sheen Novena

The Archbishop Sheen Foundation blog writes: “In each child, God whispers a new secret to the world; adds a new dimension of immortality to creation” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen God whispered a wonderful love story to the world through Fulton J. Sheen so let us whisper prayers back to Him. This is a 9 day novena with the prayer [...]

Our St. Patrick’s Day

I like to think we had fun, despite overtired babies and a broken washing machine (which has been upgraded to a shiny new MAYTAG). I wanted to make paper shamrocks with Elise but that did not happen, due to the broken washing machine. But, I did get the food done! We didn’t do corned beef [...]

March Feasts and Festivities

9 – Ash Wednesday. We’ll be receiving our ashes. 14 – Greg’s birthday. It’s entirely up to him what he wants to do, so I’m not going to put anything here! 15 – Benedictus turns ONE! Since my Dad is overseas, we’re not even thinking of a party until he returns. But, I’ll whip up [...]

Let’s Have Some Pictures

In celebration of a lot of things (good health screening results, cativity-free AND freak-out free dental appointment for me, drywall progress) I present: pictures! Our feast of St. Scholastica included this book:Elise thought the book was about her brother. Every picture she would point to St. Benedict and say “Brudder! Brudder!” Our Lady of Lourdes’ [...]

Teething isn’t easy

Around midnight Benedict woke up pretty much on fire. A quick read of his temperature showed almost 101 degrees …. high for him. We cooled him off to the best of our ability and gave him some ipubrofen. We’re blaming the fever on the molars, since he does get low-grade fevers while teething. He also [...]

February’s Feasts and Festivities

While most of the country is watching the Super Bowl, I’m blogging. 3 – St. Blaise. We celebrated by having Monsignor over for dinner and received the blessing of throats. Thank you, Monsignor!! 10 – St. Scholastica. I really like this litany to St. Scholastica. 11 – Our Lady of Lourdes. Another white dinner. And [...]

January’s Feast and Festivities

Yeah, I know; January is pretty much half over. But, better late than never, right? Janaury is devoted to the Holy Name of Jesus. Here’s what’s in store for the rest of the month. We celebrated Mary, Mother of God; Epiphany, and the Baptism of Our Lord in the first half of it. 21 – [...]