Are We There Yet?

I posted this in 2015 when we lived in Nebraska, but, for a re-share, this was the best and easiest round-up of the prayers we've sai...

Monday, February 21st Outside my window... It's a little overcast, but in the 50s -- warm enough that our granddaughters' voices ar...

  Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adv...

  A Settling Worries Journal  Looking out my window... Me. Snuggled and scribbling. No rats. There's a watercolor gray sky and snow stil...

  ...Who, upon being held against his will on the island of Majorca by King James of Aragon, said, "Oh yeah?" -- bowed his head ...

See that plant in the corner? The tall one? There's a long story behind that plant. Last June, on the way home from Idaho with the boys,...

The eight days between  January 18th (Feast of St. Peter) and January 25th (Conversion of St. Paul) has been established by Pope Leo XIII as...

  (Because I forgot about Simple Woman Monday yesterday.) What we are doing this week... Still finding places to put gifts after Christmas ...

 Grandpa is not going to challenge you to do something easy.  What's the point in that? He doesn't say a whole lot when you haven...

 We found this recipe for a gift mix online a few years ago and adapted it to use as special Advent cookies. They would make lovely pre-Chri...