Learning to Love the Cross

Learning to Love the Cross

So many times in the course of my life I have asked for a cross, because I've perceived that I wasn't suffering enough to earn a crown of glory. Sometimes it seems my life is just... too happy or blessed (I realize it may also be my optimism that plays into this). But...

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Resignation or Not Will Make No Difference At All

Resignation or Not Will Make No Difference At All

Call me vain. I finally finished my site logo this morning, and so far I've spent over an hour uploading it and trying to get it to work with my header, but IT.JUST.WON'T. So I'll have to let it go. I wanted the logo up because I wanted to write this post. But I...

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Feast of the Holy Family

Feast of the Holy Family

A Light to the Gentiles by Greg Olsen When the days were completed for their purificationaccording to the law of Moses,They took him up to Jerusalemto present him to the Lord,just as it is written in the law of the Lord,Every male that opens the womb shall be...

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What Nino Read, April 2017

Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment Viking Raiders The Wishing-Chair Collection Draw Really Cool Stuff Space (DK Eyewitness) Knute Rockne (COFA) Cleopatra Spider The Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Egypt How to Draw Spider-Man Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (for...

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Argentina Unit Study

Argentina Unit Study

Living Books: Other resources that may be helpful: Argentina Booklet: A Country Study - $3.50 digital download Animal Habitats free download Christmas Around the World: Argentina A unit study here from Homeschool in the Woods...

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100 Books Every (Catholic) Woman Needs To Read

Inspired by this post, 100 Books Every Man Needs to Read, I tried to come up with my own 100-book list. I got up to 65, then 118, and then cut it back down to 86, then back up to 112, down to 91, and so on.... I'm at 96 now and tired of trying to decide what should go...

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So I Lost My Planner/Journal Today….

So I Lost My Planner/Journal Today….

I got to Kroger and as I stepped out of my car, I reached for my journal on the passenger seat and WHOOPS! IT'S NOT HERE. I had left it at Costco, probably on the baby/toddler seat plastic thingie on the cart, because my journal's pink and I might not have noticed...

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What Nino Read, April 2016

What Nino Read, April 2016

101 Secrets A Good Dad Knows - learned how to multiply any number from 1-100 by 11 A Little History of the World (history spine) Abner Doubleday (COFA) Airplanes by Gallimard Jeunesse Artistic Pursuits Book 1 (doing art lessons from this now) American History...

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Spotlight on Clergy Abuse

Spotlight on Clergy Abuse

Important to understand: 1. Many claims of abuse are exaggerated. 2. Many claims are against deceased priests who cannot defend themselves. 3. The Church has already taken MANY steps, and continue to do so, to correct wrongs, and to prevent abuse from taking place,...

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Humans + Animal Behavior: Offensive or Not?

Humans + Animal Behavior: Offensive or Not?

The Internet seems to have lost its collective brain cells again, this time thanks to boxing superstar and pride of the Philippines Manny Pacquiao's statement on same sex "marriage", saying, Common sense lang. Makakita ka ba ng any animals na lalaki sa lalaki o babae...

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