Welcome to a new great toy for kids… a bucket full of 25 lbs of wheat berries! Mommy, they won’t let me get in there! Seriously. It was a child magnet. Every single one of them (you can’t even SEE poor Kathryn in the picture! She’s buried in there next to Reilly) was compelled to … [Read more…]
…I’m HUGE! Oh my goodness. And I’ve got 33 days left! This sweet little girl better not try to grow anymore, because I just don’t have any more room to give her! [and see? I don’t ALWAYS wear a skirt…]
Yet another toy recall — this time involving Barbie items and GeoTrax trains. It’s making old-fashioned wooden toys (and higher quality toys) look better and better all the time, don’t you think?
Stop on over to Danielle Bean’s website and see what other moms have been watching lately… I’ve gotten so many good recommendations, I have FIFTEEN movies in my Netflix queue now! (good grief!) That’s OK… in just a few weeks I’ll be on the couch, recovering from my c-section (AND staying up most of the … [Read more…]
This time from Red Neck Woman over at the Postscripts from the Catholic Spitfire Grill.
And I am so excited!! Behold the lowly bureau (and yes, I know there’s a lot of mess around it! It was a rough day around here)…. This ugly, ugly piece of furniture has been my bureau for the past twenty years. It was a freebie I inherited when I came down to South Carolina … [Read more…]
So, for the past, oh, month or so, I’ve really been pondering what is the best way to be a “good steward” of what we’ve been given. For most of my married life, I assumed that I should look for the less expensive options — ie, buy generic when possible, strive to be thrifty, not … [Read more…]
One of my “must read” bloggers, The Internet Monk, has a wonderful post on “Post-Evangelicals and the Path of Catholic Spirituality.” As he mentioned in his post, one of the things I liked most about my years of evangelicalism is that everything was neat and orderly. There was a Bible verse and an explanation for … [Read more…]