church/faith

Doing What is Difficult for Jesus

Jack became an altar server during this school year. He loved doing it (and even almost knocked me over a few times to run to the sacristy when they were short of servers).  I will admit that I was nervous each time, as he tended to forget something or do something wrong each of the [...]

Christ is Risen

Christ is risen from the dead Trampling over death by death Come awake, Come awake Come and rise up from the grave. Christ is risen from the dead. We are one with him again. Come awake, Come awake Come and rise up from the grave. Oh, death!  Where is your stain? Oh, hell!  Where is [...]

7 Quick Takes: April 21, 2011 (Vol. 78)

~ 1 ~ I’ve been in a writing slump lately. Oh, you noticed?  Yeah, it’s hard to hide when I’m only posting a couple of times a week.  I’m going to make an attempt to whittle down my to-do list to see if it clears up my mind, and makes me feel more at ease. [...]

How Our Lenten Plans Are Coming Along

I have been asked several times how our Lenten plans have been going.  You can read about them more thoroughly in that post, but the general gist of it was that we were going to give up TV/computer/video games for one day each week (as a family).  In addition to this, we also decided to [...]

7 Quick Takes: April 1, 2011 (Vol. 76)

~ 1 ~ We went to Once Upon a Child this week to get a “new” pair of jeans for Noah.  He tried on a few, and used some very interesting adjectives to describe some pairs.  Amongst those were that one pair was “wide” and another pair was “fluffy.”  I realized that wide just meant [...]

First Communion Gift Guide 2011

It’s now nearing the end of March, and with Easter just under a month away, it means that First Communion season will be upon many people very soon.  This makes it the perfect time to start shopping for friends and family members who will be celebrating this exciting Sacrament soon! I’m so excited this year [...]

7 Quick Takes: March 25, 2011 (Vol. 75)

~ 1 ~ Organizing the Spring Spruce Up and writing up my posts for it (plus doing the craft room makeover) definitely took a lot of my time over the last week!  So much so that I didn’t even write a 7 Quick Takes last week.  I also didn’t write about what happened at our [...]

Using a Kit to Make Your First Communion Banner

I’ve been a do-it-yourself kind of gal in the area of making First Communion Banners.  We just used the banner provided to us by our church and then decorated it ourselves with felt, puffy paints, and Tacky Glue.  (Our banners look very similar though, I have to admit.  First Communion banner from 2008 and First [...]

Homemade First Communion Themed Cakes

I really enjoy having parties to celebrate when my kids have made their First Holy Communion. To me, it’s an outward sign to them (from us, as parents) of how important we think this Sacrament is, and how proud we are.  I usually love to make all kinds of things to feed our guests, but [...]

7 Quick Takes: March 11, 2011 (Vol. 74)

~ 1 ~ We made it through our first Wednesday in Lent with no computers, video games, and TV.  I’m not going to say it was easy, but I’m glad we made it through it.  The kids had a good day playing with each other.  They normally play with each other throughout the day, but [...]

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