French Onion Soup / Soupe a l’Oignon Gratinée
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...
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...
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,...
Help! We’re having a baby! How do I homeschool the toddler/older child(ren)?
Candice, dito ko na ia-address 'yung concerns mo ha, so it can hopefully bless others as well. I was working on a blog post but it got too convoluted. I figured having a specific audience will help me get my thoughts out better 😛 How to homeschool an older child (or...
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...
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...
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...
Where There Is Love, There Is No Need for Feminism (An F4L Blogging Event Post)
Feminism supposedly has accomplished much, but apparently, still not enough. When/where does it end? Most feminism, especially the radical, militant kind, seems to stem from places of anger, fear, and unrest. There is no peace to be found. These women are always...
Defragmentation / Reintegration #21
Twenty-one days. No closer to an answer. 🙁 Hanging up the broken pieces of my soul. Lord, do with me as You will.
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.
Defragmentation / Reintegration #19
Freedom of Detachment I'm not going to quote. There's too much to unpack here.
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...
Defragmentation / Reintegration #17
Defragmentation / Reintegration #16
What's the best way to topple a crisis off its #1 spot? Have another crisis. So... in the interest of not depressing/scaring any more people, or myself, here's something that never fails to lift me up, even just a bit. Would that all kids had such a sweet nature.
When It Rains, It Pours
Hubby came home with chills and a fever today. And the meeting with Father on Trail Life didn't go very well. But hey....