Nino’s First Grade (After-the-Fact) Curriculum, 2014-2015

Nino’s First Grade (After-the-Fact) Curriculum, 2014-2015

(the STARS ***** = Nino's rating) August 2014 Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough ***** I loved it because it was funny and he didn't fix anything. Mr. Popper's Penguins * audio book read by Nick Sullivan I didn't like it because they were penguins and I didn't like Mr....

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Montmorency (Sour) Cherry Lambic Sorbet / Sorbetto alla Ciliegia

Montmorency (Sour) Cherry Lambic Sorbet / Sorbetto alla Ciliegia

I'm in a cherry mood. 🙂 And I've been wanting to make cherry sorbet for a while now, except the recipes I've been running into seem to produce a light rose-colored sorbet, and I wanted to replicate the deep-red cherry sorbet that I tasted in Italy years ago. I didn't...

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Inner Beauty Conference in Manila

Inner Beauty Conference in Manila

This is a promo post for a conference happening this Saturday in Manila. The Inner Beauty Conference Inner Beauty Women’s Conference 2014: FEMININE GENIUS was inspired by Pope St. JPII's Mulieris Dignitatem, of which I'm a big fan. From their promo copy: The first...

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French Onion Soup / Soupe a l’Oignon GratinĂ©e

French Onion Soup / Soupe a l’Oignon GratinĂ©e

Onion soup is a lovely thing to make right after the onion harvest at end of season, when the weather's just starting to cool down. Onion soup is also a lovely thing to start love stories with. Like ours, which certainly didn't begin with onion soup, but has seen its...

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Ten Ways to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage

Ten Ways to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage

My hubby and I will be married 25 years in December. While we don’t claim to know everything there is to know about divorce-proofing a marriage, we do have some experience with growing a marriage to its 25th year. Hope this helps. 1. Start by eliminating DIVORCE from...

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God Picks My Lenten Penance

God Picks My Lenten Penance

Image: Josh Applegate I suppose jumping right into the writing part will have to be good enough for now. I'm reading another book and having another blog conversation this year. I asked my friend to pick this year and he picked St. Faustina's Divine Mercy in My Soul,...

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Fiat and The Family

Fiat and The Family

An entry for Filipinos for Life's December Blogging Event, What Child is This? Bearing Children as the World's Salvation Christmas season is the perfect time to discuss the bearing of children. That today is the Feast of the Holy Family makes it particularly...

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Book Organization:  Our Shelves

Book Organization: Our Shelves

I promised some people a while back that I'd do a post on how we organize our books. The truth is it's a bit hard to do this since our shelves are constantly in flux, but this should give a general idea of how we do things. The actual contents of each shelf changes...

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Where Have All The Men Gone?  The Quest for Authentic Fatherhood

Where Have All The Men Gone? The Quest for Authentic Fatherhood

Have you ever thought about the word "father"? It is so commonplace, and yet has such profound import as to signify the initiation of a man into parenthood: "He FATHERED a child." We don't say, "She mothered a child" until later. Fatherhood is attached to the...

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Defragmentation / Reintegration #20

Defragmentation / Reintegration #20

Day 20+ and still haven't figured it all out. Maybe there's no figuring it out. Maybe some broken things just remain broken and there's nothing that can be done about it. Maybe God can still take those broken pieces and make something beautiful.

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Defragmentation / Reintegration #18

Defragmentation / Reintegration #18

Pondering all this, today. Love and suffering: paradox of love by Alice von Hildebrand Until it starts loving the human heart hibernates. This affective response (sanctioned by the will) is a response to the beauty of another person that has shaken our heart from its...

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