emotions

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 [...]

Helpful Homeschool Hints: Appreciate the Time with Your Children

I’ll admit it – from time to time, I get a little jealous about the free time that some people that I know have. In particular, it is the stay at home Moms who have all of their children at school.  Now, I know that they keep busy.  However, I sometimes wish that I had [...]

Helpful Homeschool Hints: Cut Yourself Some Slack

I wouldn’t say that I’m a perfectionist, but I generally have pretty high expectations for myself. Sure, I may be a lazy slacker from time to time, and I may say that things are “good enough” when I know I could have done them better, but deep down – I beat myself up about those [...]

She Was Only My Age

I have been feeling a little confused about what I want in life right now. I wonder what direction I want to take or what choice I need to make to do the things that I want to do.  I am sometimes overwhelmed with all of the responsibilities that I have in life.  I have [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 29, 2010 (Vol. 58)

~ 1 ~ The kids and I spent the day out of town visiting one of our friends (who is a priest) at the parish that he is currently.  We had lunch out, took a tour of the church and school, and then hung out at the rectory with him.  It was such a nice [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 16, 2010 (Vol. 56)

~ 1 ~ I feel kind of overwhelmed lately. I feel like I have a lot of things to do, but just can’t manage to do them.  I need to write on this blog, need to manage The Homeschool Classroom and Catholic Mothers Online, add things to Just a Tiny Owl, and keep up with [...]

The Dress Code in Purgatory

I was chatting with my other friend Amanda (not to be confused with the friend I usually refer to as “my friend Amanda”) while we watched our daughters in gymnastics.  I quickly grabbed my phone to take a picture as Molly went down into the splits.  I wanted to show Eric, because we had never [...]

Knowing My Son Belongs to God

Today, you can find me guest posting at my friend Amy’s blog – Raising Arrows. I would normally offer you a snippet from the post to entice you to head over and read it.  Instead, I was so touched by what Amy wrote before the post that I wanted to share that with you instead: [...]

May We All Serve with Such Enthusiasm

For a couple of years, Jack has pined away, waiting to be a fourth grader.  His main reason for this was that he would be old enough to be an altar server at church.  It has surprised me about how persistent he has been with his desire to be an altar server. Last week, he [...]

Using China Plates for Lunch

I’m not always practical, but I think that my practical side tends to come out about household items.  Because of this, when we registered for our wedding about a million years ago, we didn’t register for china or silverware.  We registered for Corelle sets that would have all we needed in one box and sets [...]

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