November 2008

Many Little Links: The Nerf Gun Edition

We had our first Christmas celebration this week, and less than an hour after what ended up being a seven hour trip, the kids insisted that we go to Walmart and use the gift cards they received. Each of the boys left with a Maverick Nerf Gun (which, by the way, is only sold by [...]

Weekly Wrap Up for November 29th

It’s been a busy week around here, which is why I have been much more absent from Many Little Blessings lately. I have also been seriously thinking that I need to start scheduling my time better. And, by that, I actually mean making a schedule for some of those things that I should be doing [...]

Home Baked Christmas Gifts (Plus a Giveaway for FIVE Readers!)

I have been pretty absent from the blog since late last week. I kept meaning to come post, but I have been busy, busy, busy with baking Christmas gifts. This means that I’ve been busy working my way through: seven pounds of flour, 19 eggs, just under six pounds of butter, over five pounds of [...]

Using Simple Drawings to Teach Religion

I am not the world’s best artist. As a matter of fact, my idea of drawing people usually involves a whole lot of “stick” lines, and perhaps a set of triangles put together to make a bow, as well as some eyelashes, to indicate which of those stick figures is a girl. Because of this [...]

Daddy Flavored Cough Syrup

Jack was having a great deal of coughing, and so we opted to give him some cough syrup before bed. We were in the middle of our nightly group hug (all five of us together), and Jack inquired, “What flavor is the cough syrup?” Not really knowing what flavor it was (without looking), I jokingly [...]

Do you think that the sun might rise tomorrow too?

When I watch the news, it is usually our local news. This is not, however, because it is a stellar news cast. As a matter of fact, sometimes it is almost painful to watch them stumble over foreign names, occassionally look like deer in headlights, and sometimes looking in the wrong camera for longer than [...]

Advent Conspiracy

I saw this video while bopping around the blogosphere and I was really moved by it, so I wanted to share it. h/t to Gold Family News

Cheap Date Ideas (WFMW #58)

With money being tigher for many people, it’s important to find frugal ways to still have a date night with your spouse (or special loved one). Eric and I like to joke, “We go out for one date a year whether we need it or not.” (Okay, it’s only kind of a joke — we [...]

Reorganizing My Craft Room

I can’t seem to help myself — I like to organize. So, from time to time, I reorganize something that I have already reorganized. Honestly though, it’s usually because it’s just not working for me anymore, and I have a new idea of what might work better. My craft room, of course, is no exception [...]

You are an Alleluia!

You are an Alleluia! You are a special, unique, unrepeatable being. There never has been anyone like you, and never will be. In all the millions of universes, you were made for this time, this place. How needed you are. Because of your birth, the world is different, we are different. You are a celebration, [...]

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