My heart grieves for the families in CT who have lost loved ones in a senseless shooting at an Elementary school. There should never be gun free zones because evil will choose those places preferentially. Teachers and administrators need the means to defend themselves and their students. It is a horrible tragedy and I pray for all involved. An acquaintance is returning to work, placing her baby in a daycare, and grieving the necessity. This brings home to me how blessed I have been to stay home with my children. Even more, how blessed I am to be free to … Continue reading
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We Are Starting Over I am very very impressed with what this priest wrote. PLEASE, please go read his entire blog post. It is an important set of things he has to say. I would so love to attend a parish with a priest like him– although I love and respect our parish priest for the excellent work he does. Home School is one means that parents can use to teach the Faith to their children and at the same time be reinforcing their own understanding. I think this priest understands that value and would welcome children of good home … Continue reading
Catholic Home School Conference this Friday and Saturday in Houston TX. There are not a lot of home school conferences that serve Catholics. Few Catholic curriculum providers are invited to have booths at the other home school conferences. Few Catholic speakers are invited to give talks at other home school conferences and certainly none that are boldly Catholic in their choice of topics. We ignore this prejudice because we recognize that for most non-Catholics it doesn’t even occur to them that the prejudice might be offensive. We accept that none of our good Catholic Curriculum providers will be advertising in … Continue reading
It seems like everyone is blogging about their resolutions. I like to see what others are hoping to accomplish in the year. Over at A Woman’s Place….Depends on Her Vocation is an entry that inspired me to put my personal resolutions on my own blog…. and to make suggestions for handling the typical small children interrupting mommy problems when attempting to fulfill resolutions. My resolutions fall into categories not unlike those on this blog: Blogging: I recognized the need to DO SOMETHING to motivate me and help me become more diligent in writing to this blog. I decided to make … Continue reading