Legacy
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Wednesday, July 09, 2008
The other day, Dan was cleaning out our outdoor shed and he found an old accordion file of mine. In it were old notebooks with bits and pieces of my writing from the past several years. It was fun to flip through them and find my handwritten notes for essays that wound up being part of my first book or that made their way into other publications in various forms. In that file were also two smaller... READ MORE
What’s Going On Here?
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, July 10, 2008
What could it be that has my boys so engrossed on a summer afternoon? What has so captivated their attention that I have not seen their darling faces indoors for the better part of the day?
I was certain they were reading Shakespeare. You know, my sweet little cherubs love to gather outdoors on temperate days for an impromptu reading of Hamlet.
Just kidding. They prefer the sonnets.
Okay, maybe... READ MORE
25 Benedicts
Posted by Tom and April Hoopes in Features on Monday, July 14, 2008
“The Church is young! The Church is alive!” What Pope Benedict XVI said in his first message as Pope is literally true, as these 25 Benedicts show — one Pope and 24 babies. In honor of his U.S. visit and World Youth Day, we present the Holy Father’s youthful legacy.
Log on to our sister site Pope2008.com for Tim Drake’s live coverage of papal events, and U.S. video feed courtesy of EWTN.
Benedict... READ MORE
Found
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Friday, July 18, 2008
My kitchen pot.
My bathroom.
Someone else’s amazing, growing, just-add-water, rubber lizard.
Benefits
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, July 28, 2008
Reason #4,361 to have a mess of kids:
Picture Possibilities!
The Bean kids, on the grounds of the St. Anthony Franciscan Monastery (Kennebunkport Shipyard in the background)
Sweet Success!
Posted by Danielle Bean in Food on Monday, August 04, 2008
We did get around to baking this afternoon, as I had planned. Though I still have wet bed linens sitting in the washer and only a vague plan for dinner, Juliette’s smile tells me it was time well spent.
Pictured here are these muffins, but we used blackberries instead of blue. And we doubled the recipe, of course.
Yum!
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.
Bad 80’s Hair
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Just me on Saturday, August 16, 2008
OK, Danielle threw down the gauntlet, so of course I am compelled to rise to the challenge and share with you the results of my own little trip down memory lane over at yearbookyourself.com. Being the old lady of the Faith and Family blogging team, I graduated from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California in 1981. The truth of the matter is that my real yearbook photo was nothing like this one - I was one of those long, straight hair girls with no bangs. But it’s kind of fun to imagine that what might have been (not!!) had I given in to the big hair craze!
Rachel Balducci, Class of ‘66
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Just me on Saturday, August 16, 2008
Rachel takes her grades very seriously, but thank goodness her seriousness stops there. She is always up for a visit to the local drug store for a yummy chocolate malt, and she works hard on that amazing head of hair. No wonder she was voted Best Bob Hairdo, Class of ‘66. Rachel plans on being a rocket scientist or maybe an actress.
Those Weren’t the Days
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Saturday, August 16, 2008
This is what I would have looked like if I’d been graduating from high school in 1952 - almost a whole generation before my own mother. I like it - I look demure, which is something I’ve never looked as far as I can remember. I rather enjoy it.
And in a pretty - or really, not so pretty - bit of irony, the funniest picture I got from yearbookyourself.com was the one that was supposed to be from... READ MORE
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