The Privilege of Being a Woman
I just started reading Alice von Hildebrand’s The Privilege of Being a Woman. The following statements made an impression on me: The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).…
Read MoreHappy Birthday
Happy Birthday to one of the most wonderful uncles in the world! I am writing this a little early, as I want to make sure you read this on your birthday. We love you, miss you and pray for you often. We hope you have a wonderful day!
Read MoreBrendan: Speaking English
“Mommy, I know how to say clean your room in English. Clean thy room.”
Read MoreIndifference
Thank you, God, for answering my prayer. This morning, I read the following from Father Jean C.J. d’Elbée’s I Believe in Love: Contempt — and indifference even more than contempt — is hard to accept. We must swallow the bitter gall of being left aside as insignificant while the idol of self is obliged to…
Read MoreWho Discovered America?
Brendan’s lunchtime observation, “Mommy, if Tchaikovsky hadn’t discovered America, we wouldn’t be living here.” I have the CD “Tchaikovsky Discovers America” to thank for our conversation.
Read MoreBabies and Stairs
My mom taught me to teach babies to use stairs as soon as they were mobile. Before my husband and I had stairs of our own, my mom would take our first child, and then our second, and lovingly and slowly show them how to go down (feet first) and up the stairs at my…
Read MoreThings I Heard and Saw Today
Theresa: “Well, then I’m never eating my dinner.”Immediately after saying this, she picked up her fork and finished everything on her plate. Bernadette: “Mommy, do you know who has a lighthouse?”Me: “Who?”Bernadette: “God does. It is the moon and the stars.”
Read MoreEmbarrassment
A few months ago, as my children and I were strolling through Michael’s they started to talk about whiskey. I was mortified and told them to stop talking. After leaving the store, I asked them where they had heard about it. They informed me that Captain Haddock drinks it. I told them it was not…
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