Benedict’s Wit
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, July 08, 2008
With Mr. T. at the wheel for a weekend road trip, I took advantage of the opportunity to read Brennan Pursell’s Benedict of Bavaria. Among its many delights are the revelations that the young Joseph Ratzinger had a bit of a mouth on him where teachers were concerned (mothers of pre-teens, take heart!); that after the war his seminary was so damaged he had to climb into his dorm via ladder through... READ MORE
Rainy Day Fun
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, July 24, 2008
The kids’ board game that these precious pieces of plastic came with calls them cones.
I call them purgatory reducers. They are just the thing for stepping on with bare feet in the morning.
Bonus points for not enhancing your children’s vocabularies with what you shout out when it happens.
Suffer the Children
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Saturday, July 26, 2008
A few years ago Benedict XVI asked that all Catholics learn the basic prayers of the Church in Latin to facilitate our praying together, so we made it a practice to pray a decade of our family rosary in Latin every evening. They’re used to it now, but at the time our kids’ reactions were decidedly mixed. I was reminded of this recently when Joseph, our newest reader, took a turn presenting the meditation... READ MORE
A Father Avenged
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Saturday, August 02, 2008
Special occasions were accompanied during our childhood by my father’s light verse—the composition of which he’s delightfully continued for another generation, punctuating the births of grandchildren and family weddings with inside jokes set to rhyme. I wouldn’t bring this up except our eldest son just took this picture of our youngest. I have never seen a photo capture a character so precisely, and... READ MORE
Cleanliness Really Is Next To Godliness
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Homemaking on Monday, August 04, 2008
Last week I was able to attend six days of silent Spiritual Exercises (posting here through the magic of post-dated entries). The most intimate conversations between God and the soul aren’t for sharing, but I will let you in on a tangential light of my meditation on Christ’s Passion and Resurrection. Take a look at this from John 20. You know the scene: Mary Magdalene has reported the empty tomb and Peter & John run to investigate. Picking up at verse 6 we read:
When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.Why did they believe? Because grave-robbers would have left a mess, but Christ stripped the sheets and placed them just so.
...Yeah, my kids aren’t going for it either.
Found in the Laundry
Posted by Danielle Bean in Homemaking on Friday, August 08, 2008
Rex, the family’s favorite rooster, has been molting. Consequently, this is what I have been finding in my laundry these days—feathers. Lots of them.
I must say, I prefer pretty feathers to live snails, silly putty, beetle collections, and other laundry surprise possibilities.
I can’t be the only one who fails to check pockets. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever found in your laundry?
Never Fail Cure For Boredom
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Saturday, August 09, 2008
We have an adventure with cousins planned for a little later, but the waiting is not going well.
Child who-shall-remain-nameless, whining: Mom, I’m booooored.
Me (merciless): I have some chores you can help me with.
Child (perking up): I’m not bored at all!
It’s like magic.
(For the record, that’s not my sink.)
Compromise and Reason
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, August 11, 2008
Last night, as I was tucking Gabrielle into her bed, she asked me to turn on her electric fan.
“Put it on HIGH!” she told me.
I sighed. This is a nightly battle. Her sister roommates don’t like the fan on high, but night after night, Gabby insists.
“How about if we put it on medium instead?” I suggested.
“Noooooo,” Gabby began a predictable protest. “Just this one time can’t I have it on high... READ MORE
New Media
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, August 12, 2008
When you let your 6 year old set up an email account where he can “practice” this is the kind of thing you can expect to find in your inbox:
hey mama, there is a spider on your foot.
SB
Weekend Fun
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Saturday, August 16, 2008
Oh, the miracle of the internet! Though I wasn’t yet born in 1968, by uploading a photo to this hilarious website, I can see what my high school yearbook photo would look like for that year. Stunning, no?
There are many different years to choose from. I tried out a couple of the oversize eighties hairstyles but was unimpressed with the results. If I want to see pictures of myself looking like that I need look no further than my parents’ home where several of them are framed and hanging. And I look AWESOME, thank you very much.
Go on now. Have yourself a laugh this morning.
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