This is Benjamin's Cabinet. When we're cooking he will climb into his cabinet that houses his cracked blue colander that he likes to wear as a hat or sit on. After 10 seconds of silence he'll say, "Where's Benjamin?!" and then pop out and laugh uproariously. His fat little tummy just kills me. Here he is playing a little ditty on the penny whistle. It makes the most dreadful sounds but … [Read more...]
Soul Cakes for All Saints’
November 1st is All Saints' Day when we honor and remember the faithful saints and martyrs through out the centuries, known and unknown. The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us, "Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ" (957). Also known as Hallowmas, All Saints' Day marks the middle of … [Read more...]
The Burrow
My dream house looks something like this low impact woodland home. Or The Burrow from Harry Potter shown here: … [Read more...]
Potty Training?
Can some other mamas help me out with the next step of potty training? If potty training doesn't interest you, don't bother reading this. So we've started potty training Little Bear, or rather, he's decided he wants to start potty training. I was going to wait til he turned two, but he just really wants to use the potty. A couple weeks ago he started wanting to sit on the potty before … [Read more...]
Farm Tour
Benjamin's Uncle Garrett and I took him to the Farm Tour this weekend to see Orchard Pond Organics where we have our CSA share. Look at how beautiful these chickens are! We eat their eggs so I'm glad to know that they're such good looking creatures. They have a pretty awesome chicken tractor, too. There were some good lookin' cows in this field (behind Garrett and Little Bear) … [Read more...]
My Sweet Little Bear and Autumnal Fun
We took a trip to the Pumpkin Patch with my mom and her goddaughter, Maddy. Benjamin was quite thrilled to be carted around by Maddy. He picked out this knobbliest of pumpkins. I don't know why it looks like he has dirt on his nose. A few new things: Bear has started sleeping later. (Praise the Lord!) For the first year he wouldn't sleep later than 5:30 and for the past six months he's … [Read more...]
A Trip to the Country
Due partly to the beautiful weather that begs for fun excursions and partly to an undeniable craving for Bradley's Sausage we took a trip up Centerville Road to Bradley's Country Store on Saturday with Thomas and Kellie. For those of you so unfortunate to have never experienced Bradley's Country Store, please remedy this at once. It's an old-timey general store about 20 minutes outside of … [Read more...]
Preparing for Michaelmas
It's been a year since I started this project to document our lives and celebrate the Christian Year. Due to job changes, a move across the country, grad school, buying a house, moving in and setting up, starting new jobs, and having all our books still in boxes, it's been a pretty sporadic project. But since Michaelmas is where it all began, I'm going to try to celebrate the feast again this … [Read more...]
“See ya later, Mom,”
...said Benjamin as he put the handle of the bucket over his shoulder. Do I say see you later whenever I put my purse over my shoulder? … [Read more...]
Some September Reads…
I'm still plugging away at Wendell Berry's agrarian essays: The Art of the Commonplace. I can't believe it's taken me so long to read them. Each one is brilliant. “We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. We need persons and households that do not have to wait upon organizations, but can make necessary … [Read more...]
