by Kendra | Mar 27, 2020 | Catholic Living
Many of us do not now have access to the Eucharist, “the source and summit of Christian life.” (CCC 1324) But let’s not just throw up our hands and despair! We have recourse to a Morning Offering to unite ourselves to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass...
by Kendra | Mar 25, 2020 | Catholic All Year Shop, Catholic Stuff Saturday, Easter
Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation! 👼📣 For what we’ll be doing to celebrate, see this post. tl:dr 🧇🙏 This Easter bunny seems to capture the general zeitgeist, no? Strange times these are, my friends! It’s been a very Lenty...
by Kendra | Mar 23, 2020 | Catholic Mom Book Review
Number one requested post when all of this Coronavirus stuff started going down was how to homeschool all of a sudden, so I wrote this. Second was what to do about Mass when there are no public Masses, so I wrote this. And now, third most requested is book...
by Kendra | Mar 21, 2020 | Catholic Living, Weird Catholic Stuff
I usually try to create content that is “evergreen” as they say in the blogging world, that can be useful to people for many years. I sincerely hope that this post is not useful for long and that soon churches will be open and Masses will be public again...
by Kendra | Mar 13, 2020 | Homeschool
The ranks of the homeschooling have grown exponentially in the last, well, yesterday. Maybe you find yourself making a face like Saint Anne here 😒. As an accidental homeschooler myself (for the past twelve years) I figured I’d share a few tips on how we manage...
by Kendra | Mar 4, 2020 | Catholic Living, Lent
We are a week into Lent. Probably we’ve all had some moments to be proud of, and some fails, right? That’s to be expected. The spring Ember Days begin today, Wednesday, and continue on Friday and Saturday. Ember Days are seasonal days of fasting and...
by Kendra | Feb 24, 2020 | How We Roll, Parenting, Things I Think, Uncategorized
People seem to believe that cell phone use is this new, unprecedented behavior about which there are no established customs that could govern our conduct. George Washington and I beg to differ. The technology might be different, but human desires remain pretty...
by Kendra | Feb 18, 2020 | Things I Think
Baby Barbara and I recently accompanied two-year old George for most of his five week stay in the hospital as he fought and recovered from bacterial meningitis. I’ve had people mention since then that I should do a post on what I learned during our little...
by Kendra | Feb 14, 2020 | Babies, Baby Gear, Catholic Living, Pregnancy
So, you’ve got a nursing baby. Hey, me too! And sometimes it’s nice to go out in public and look cute and also feed the baby, right? You are the Mother of Incarnate God, free from all stain of original sin by a singular grace and privilege granted by the...
by Kendra | Feb 12, 2020 | Homeschool, How We Roll
I currently have four kids in “regular” school, three in homeschool (and three not-yet-school-age), so I often get asked why we transition our kids out of homeschooling, and how we make the decision when to do that. This post is my answer to that question....
