by Kendra | Apr 13, 2019 | Catholic Living, Lent, Liturgical Year, Things I Think
Spy Wednesday “Spy” Wednesday 🕵️♂️ is the name traditionally given to the Wednesday of Holy Week. This is the day Judas betrayed Jesus, telling the high priest when Jesus would be in a place where he could be more...
by Kendra | Apr 3, 2019 | Catholic Living, Things I Think, Weird Catholic Stuff
Rather heavy things loom on the horizon around here in general, and on Friday specifically (click for details here, but only if you have a hankie handy) . . . and Lent is here and Holy Week is coming for all of us. But we Christians know there is always a light in the...
by Kendra | Mar 28, 2019 | Cancer, Things I Think, Travel With Kids
New prayer booklets for April, and other new printables for Easter and the sacraments are up in the shop, details at the bottom of the post, or see here. If you’re new around here, you can get up to speed on this particular issue here. And the recent, not so...
by Kendra | Oct 20, 2016 | Catholic Living, Halloween, Saints, Things I Think
Hey guys. 👋 I’m still not back. The book is coming along, but there’s still a ways to go. But. I got this mailbag question via email and answered it via email, and wanted to share it here, just in case any of you are facing the same criticisms. I...
by Kendra | Oct 10, 2016 | Catholic Living, Homeschool, Things I Think
Happy Columbus Day! This is not a feast of the Catholic Church, of course, but it’s a national celebration (at least it WAS a celebration, now it’s more like one-more-excuse-to-be-mad-on-Facebook) of a Catholic person with admirable qualities and great...
by Kendra | May 10, 2015 | Parenting, Things I Think
The week leading up to Mother’s Day was certainly brightened for me by the news of the birth of baby Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. I’m a proud American and whatnot, but my love of babies, fanciness, and tradition can’t help but rejoice in a...
by Kendra | Oct 17, 2014 | Babies, Parenting, Things I Think
There are people who have blogs who eventually learn that there are things you’re just not allowed to write about on the internet: vaccines, spanking, breastfeeding in public, crying it out, etc. I am not one of those people. And I get a lot of reader...
by Kendra | Oct 15, 2014 | Can of Worms, Pop Culture, Things I Think
The recent stories of Brittany Maynard and Jennifer Lawrence are quite different in circumstance and gravity. But both women are suffering. And both have a skewed way of rationalizing what is happening to them. My glioblastoma is going to kill me, and that’s out...
