Are We There Yet?

Thanks to Mighty Mom suggestions! So, look out! I have pictures backlogged to the Epiphany to share! But, first, here's a shot of a pi...

I regard today as one of my namedays, after a fashion. You see, my middle name is Bernadette, so I figure I get to claim all the feastdays ...

The Engagement Story Chapter 1 Pauliwog, a Big Frog There was once a little boy, the first of many boys and girls in a big Catholic family....

Going around the web ~ apparently from a pro-life activist named John Otto: Dear Friends and Intercessors: This afternoon I was praying abou...

Paul and Nicole will become a Mr. and Mrs. on October 10th! And we'll get to have Nicole for our new daughter! I'll share the engag...

Bella had her puppies! Six chubby, white little yowlers early this morning. I'll try my durndest to get my camera downloaded and take so...

It was a response to this video: Which is really pretty strange... but somehow quite impressive. (Can't wait to share this with my choir...

It was 65 degrees yesterday and around 60 today. The children have been playing outside in their shirtsleeves and I've been opening the ...

Beaker is my favorite Muppet! Here he is again, in a different kind of classic: Who's your favorite Muppet?

Our littler girls, under the supervision of ten-year-old Theresa, are working on a blog of their own called Notes from a little house on the...

Almost all cultures have some ritually offered words for someone who sneezes -- the ancient Greeks, the American Indians, the rabbinical Je...

We went to the Denver Museum of Natural History yesterday, seven of my children, one little friend, and my brother, Dave, and I. We have a ...

A Superbowl Commercial Classic Cracked us up!

I'm on my way this morning to meet my two oldest sons, Paul and Kevin, and Paul's girl, Nicole up at Winter Park to spend the day. T...

* Feel apologetic toward the hot-rods who want to pass me on our winding country roads when I'm doing the speed limit (For goodness sa...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is feeling its oats these days, it would appear. In the name of our children's safety, it's t...

Traditional feast day: January 29th, followed in two days by one of his great devotees and the founder of the Salesian Order, St. John Bosco...

Catherine had one of my husband's little blue raquetballs the other day, bouncing it, bouncing it, bouncing it. And, yeah, it got to be ...

The Polar Bear The Polar Bear is unaware Of cold that cuts me through: For why? He has a coat of hair. I wish I had one too! ~ Hillaire Bell...

Laura asked me a question that I couldn't fit in the combox. Which of my amazing and strange little people is most like me? I've be...