Joys of February

I am positively thrilled to see the arrival of February.  It’s a dull, dreary, cold month, for certain.  But its arrival brings us one step closer to my favorite time of year – SPRING! February is also great, because you can pour over all of those seed...

These Slow Christmas Days

I really do love these lazy in-between days of the Christmas season.  Even the secular world slows down a bit, to nod to Our King (whether they want to admit it, or not).  We’ve been filling our days with cozy fires and friendly board games and a few too many...

We Know Who Wins

On this Feast of St. John Paul the Great, I’ve been thinking of three of his most famous words.  “Be Not Afraid!”  Considering that he spoke many, many words and ALL of them were worth hearing, it’s ironic that we can boil it down to these...
Make Reading Cuddly Again

Make Reading Cuddly Again

In the push to get kids reading as soon as humanly possible, I think our sweet kids are really missing out in the long run. We purchase ten pounds of books, guaranteeing to teach a three year old to read.  We plug them into iPads loaded full of “learning...