A taste of Northern weather this weekend:   It is really small, but it says tomorrow night it will be 45 degrees! Awesome, I cannot wait to sleep with the windows open!

Today our dear friend was ordained to the Holy Priesthood! You can listen to the ordination here by clicking on the podcast labeled "AD MISSAM IN OF DE SABBATO FOR 24. SEP 2011"

It never fails that shortly before traveling somewhere, I have dreams about things happening before the trip to prevent me from being able to go.  Well, Joshua and Karol are leaving for Italy tomorrow and I have been preparing things for them. (Joshua is currently en route back from my old stomping grounds, Detroit....

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Our friends, the Huguets, sent us home with a cake for Benedict. Here he is after he enjoyed it.

From Chant Café: The first time I ever went to a Life Teen Mass I was sixteen years old. It was New Years’ Eve and I thought, instead of going downtown with my pagan friends, I should be a good Catholic boy and ring in the New Year with Jesus. The parish that had the Life Teen Mass was not mine, but I went anyway....

I entered this giveaway. I also found me a new blog to read and follow 🙂   ps I really need this book because Margaret told me yesterday about how she "don't have no prayers".

I started to do Monday Musings today. I usually just copy and paste the previous one that I did, however, as I hadn't for a long time, I just copied Nadja's. I had an awesome post typed out and hit publish then my blog froze. When it finally published, it did with most of Nadja's responses, not mine. Sorry....now I...

I have taken a long break, but here I am again with: Right now...it is 1027 am, sunny and 82 degrees (with 57% humidity). I am sitting in the recliner watching Benedict play with my bread bucket and the kids are watching their 1/2 hour of a DVD. (Richard Scary's Busy Town this morning. I have a nice cup of coffee...

(No, reason # 1  and #2 aren't posted yet.) I get to see the look on my child's face when he finally gets a concept that he has been struggling with.