Category: Family
My daughter is 33 months old (that is just shy of three years for most laymen) which is an amazing time of child development. She is firmly in the “why” stage. I know there are endless jokes about kids and…
My wife loves J. R. R. Tolkien. I don’t mean she has read four or five of his books, I mean we have more than one book shelve full of his works. When I wanted to get her something special for…
Forbidden Island is a deceptively simple game. Two to four players are trying to save three hidden treasures off an island before the said island sinks. First this is a game that a 10 year old can play, and second all…
I love music; all kinds of music. When my wife and I started to have a family we discussed how we wanted to make sure our children heard a diversity of musical styles. I wanted to make sure a wide variety of music seemed “normal” to their young ears. I was proud of myself for being so “open minded.”
Today my son is one month old. This is part of the reason I have not put up a post for that amount of time. There were no complications with the birth, but my waking hours have consisted on taking…
The first Icon the I wrote In the tradition that I was raised, that means Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael (sorry Uriel and the rest of the gang). I have always felt it was an exciting feast day, because when else can we celibate a warrior, a herald/preacher, and a healer all at one time? These are the core elements of most of my childhood fantasies, and I don’t think I am alone.
In two previous posts I talked about our home altar. So here is a snap shot of what we keep on it. On top we keep our small collection of relics, some prayer cards, statues of saints, and rosaries/chaplets. The things that we probably use the most. Some of these items, such as the second degree relic of Ven. Solanus Casey, have as much sentimental value as religious since my mother gave it to me as a young child.
While doing some work around the house this morning I had an epiphany; cats are like a two year old.
There are few things in life that make me feel more cultured than when our season opera tickets arrive.
Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows, commemorating the suffering of Mary, the mother of Jesus. While this is a long-standing devotion in the Roman Catholic Church, it only popped up on my radar while I was preparing for my marriage four years ago. Since our wedding was to take place at a beautiful church by the same name, I decided that I would look into the devotion.
