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#1 is for Catholic parents. I need input! I’m brainstorming a book for families to use during Ordinary Time, along the lines of Joy to the World: Advent Activities and Bring Lent to Life. I want to know on what topics you would like to have good, family-friendly activities and reflections available to use for teaching your children about the Catholic faith. I have a list already started, but I want to know what YOU think is important.
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Last week I took the little ones with me to the doctor’s office in St. Louis. I already detailed how that crazy day ended, but I neglected to mention that we had lunch with the lovely Elizabeth of That Married Couple, and dinner with my sister. At dinner, my sister sat down across the table from Nicholas, who said something like, “We go to da do-tah. We shee beebee hah beat.” My sister’s jaw dropped to hear that much verbiage out of the mouth of a child who was still talking in repeated syllables three short months ago. 🙂
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Speaking of Nicholas…Christian took him to a Rams-Redskins game on Sunday. It was the first Daddy-baby outing. Come to think of it, Julianna hasn’t had one of those, either…her quality time with daddy always seems to involve surgery. Anyway, it was the highlight of Nicholas’s ENTIRE LIFE. Anyone who will sit still gets an earful this week: “I go wid Daddy in the tie! (Car.) I wide a weel choo-choo twain! To da foo-ball game! Da tih-ets (tickets) were WAY up high!” He nearly had a heart attack when he saw the sweater I dressed him in that day come out of the dryer. So cute!
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I had one of Those Moments at the library this week. The little ones were at about 75% uncooperative, wanting to run in opposite directions at the same time, being typical scatterbrained tinies. I was keeping my cool, though, smiling and rolling my eyes at the adults who passed–you know, one of those “Yes, we’ve all been here” silent communique’s. And then. The elevator opened, and a woman stood there as I was trying to keep Julianna from punching the “down” button when we needed to go “up,” and the woman looked at them, took in my state, and said, “Oh, and you’re having another one!” She shook her head. “I’m so sorry.”
Immediately she recognized her bad manners; hastily she backpedaled as I stumbled out something not at all eloquent about how children are good and beautiful. I just couldn’t believe it, and I didn’t have the energy to work out a pithy comeback.
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I wrote a Fiction Friday post for today, too. Hope you’ll take a minute to read it!
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I’ve come to realize that my Facebook “friend” list is so big (from trying to network) that I’m not keeping in touch with the people I’m closest to. So I’m trying to separate my “professional” connections onto the Fan page. If you’re a regular reader, please “like” me so we can connect on Facebook!
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I read something intimidating on an agent blog this week. Rachelle Gardner says you should aim for 15,000 monthly hits on your blog. I have a ways to go. A very long ways. How depressing.
Kathleen M. Basi 
Michael my six year old has been paying more attention to the homilys than I have. Walking out of church the other day he asked me what “covet” meant. So on that note-how about the ten commandments in little kid words.
Congrats on the pregnancy-in my neighborhood, everyone in the library would have oohed and ahhed at how cute your kids were and commend you on your pregnancy-everyone is Catholic so “reproduce, reproduce, reproduce”
When I wrote my last article on Friends I really wanted to include whata strange world it is we live in where you can share intimate details with your FB “friends” and then run into some of them in public outings without so much as a “Hello” or “how are you?”
Elizabeth told me the other day that “green means ordinary time.” It was so cute–she’s only in kindergarten. I wonder if you would like to do a few activities that center around the color green, to emphasize that fact?
1. I’d like to know how to incorporate more saints and feast days, but I don’t know if that’s exactly what you’re looking for. A woman in my moms group yesterday brought us all these awesome laminated “Marian mats” that detail how to say the rosary. It made me think how much I would enjoy plastic Catholic placemats, perhaps with simple things like grace and pictures of holy people on them.
2. Yay! 🙂
6. Done.
Actually dear — he didn’t say the “tickets” were way up high, he said the “Kicks” were way up high. Thanks to Roman, our seats were actually in the lower part of the stadium.
(In case anyone is wondering, that is my husband weighing in for the first time ever, and I didn’t see it until a week later as he didn’t tell me about it! LOL)
4. I’m so sorry that not only you had to hear that but that your children did too. At least she recognized her mistake and you got to refute it. 🙂 I’m so happy for you that you’re pregnant again!
That’s so great Nicholas had such a blast with his Daddy! Precious.
#4 – I had SO MANY MORE of those moment with my fourth than my fifth. What is it about #4?? 🙂
I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for but I’d love more info on celebrating some of the “lesser known” saint’s feast days.