https://youtu.be/umSDKQ3UrwQ (The image above is from FB - a priest in Paris with the Eucharist)

I finally got to a project I have been wanting to do... washing my windshield.  Seems like an easy quick project, more of a quick task than a project.  Nothing to write home about.  However, I have the hardest time remembering - at the right time.  I remember all the time that I need to... Continue Reading →

By my kitchen window since as long as I can remember, in every house we have lived in, I have had this picture of St. Therese.  My memory fails me as to its origin, but I do believe I picked it up in Lisieux during my World Youth Day pilgrimage in high school.  It is... Continue Reading →

Our youngest is named after one of my favorite saints.  St. André Bessette.  I love St. Andre, for so many reasons.  His humility was so beautiful.  I love that he was simple - he loved God, and God loved him.  He lived his life to simply love God, in every aspect. In every moment that came, he... Continue Reading →

As the cooler weather comes in through our windows, the grocery stores have started to display their pumpkins, the children settle into the daily familiar hum of school again, and the leaves start to slowly display their vibrant colors, it appears fall has arrived.  And technically, summer did just end on the calendar. But, I've... Continue Reading →

Being now a mom of not only littles, but also teenagers, I've been thinking on some things.  Listening to the struggles of peer pressure that surround them, and trying to gently guide them to stand up for their values and encourage virtue, so that one day they can stand on their own, secure in their... Continue Reading →

Summer is sneaking up upon us.   Maybe because we had winter until May here in MA (at least it seemed that way).  Or perhaps we have just been in the very busy season of spring and baseball and end of the year activities.  I'm never quite ready for summer, never have everything planned, but then... Continue Reading →

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." ~ Matthew 28:19 "And when He had... Continue Reading →

Tonight, we had just gotten home from a baseball game - one of those little coach pitch games that are cute and only an hour or so.  Which is exactly long enough because the two littlest ones are so ready for bed by the end.  A two hour game would do us in. We get... Continue Reading →