Growing Light in the Darkness

When I was growing up, we didn’t have an Advent wreath, but our family has been keeping one since our girls were very small. I started with a traditional set of tapers and a wreath, but have changed the way I do the wreath in more recent years. One year, I was visiting a friend’s…

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The Great Writing Process Blog Tour!

Barb tagged me to take part in the Writing Process Blog Tour, and I agreed to participate. I did not, however, succeed in finding people to tag to further the tour! If you’re interested, I’ll edit this post to tag the first three people who’d like to take part. (And I’ll email you instructions, too.)…

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Link-O-Rama!

It’s Holy Week, and that means I’m busy with Church (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday!) and cleaning up so the Easter Bunny isn’t hiding eggs in the clutter of our downstairs family room.  Oh, and laundry, because no one wants our family to show up au natural for the Easter Vigil. But that doesn’t mean…

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Saved-Up Links

I save up links in Bloglines for a while, then finally get around to posting them all at once. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, so how about another round? Ma Beck found a virtual tour of Notre Dame (which the girls will love to see, I’m sure). She also had a link…

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A Couple of Quick Links

I am going away – again – and I really need to pack in between school lessons and activities. But my Hobbit-ness is kicking in big time. So I am going to try hard NOT to post much. However, there are a couple of things that I wanted to pass on in case you did…

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This Day in (Recent) History

I’ve been keeping a series of links relating to the terrorist attacks on 9-11-01 at the Soccer Mom blog. I have also been adding to it throughout the day as I see more and more posts worth reading. You can read it here. And, if you’ve got tissues, watch the video here. And this one,…

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Blogging Snippets

I’ve got a bunch of articles that I’ve been meaning to read and/or point out. Here’s a list of some of them. 1. Today at Just Doing My Best, newhousenewjob discusses open-mindedness and belief in God: A friend of mine once said to me, “I’d love to believe in God the way you do, but…

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