My life with a wonderful husband, living my vocation of raising three girls Catholic in a secular world, finding myself more counter-cultural and farther from the mainstream every day, and trying to grow in patience, knowing that they will not be little for long.
Helping Gramma in the kitchen (okay, so she is making meatloaf here on Wednesday evening and not Thanksgiving food yet, but Cecilia enjoyed "helping" anyway!)
Hanging out with family... Grampa and Uncle Tim (and Gabby... is she a relative? Honorary Aunt, maybe?)
Helping Gramma set the table for the Thanksgiving feast
Caroline's pumpkin turkey centerpiece
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The food! Turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce (both canned and homemade!), stuffing (both in the bird and baked in a dish... oh, and Tim's own separate dish of onion and celery-free stuffing), cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes, squash casserole, and pumpkin and pecan pies! We didn't even bother with baking rolls, there was so much food! Oh, and we had the traditional dish of black olives on the table, much to my girls' delight!
Caroline and Cecilia with their honorary cousins, Dutch and Tyke. Try getting two kids and two dogs to all stay still and look at the camera all at once... it can't be done. This was the closest we got. You ruined it by looking away, Dutch!
This must not really be Mason... Mason would be hissing and running away. She probably gave herself a three-hour bath after escaping.
And this was a few days after Thanksgiving, but can anyone tell what is different about Caroline???
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noticed when we saw you at church, she has bangs, looks cute!
I spend my days as a 35 year old Catholic wife and mother changing diapers, nursing babies, teaching my children at home, making yogurt, picking figs, and fighting city hall for the rights of families to care for themselves in healthy and self-sufficient ways. I love my husband, chocolate, the Pope(s), Earl Greyer and Irish Breakfast teas, cooking, and the beauty and truth of my faith's teachings on family, sexuality, and love. My mottos are "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life," "Ora et Labora," and "Offer it up." If you dropped by, you'd likely find me in my kitchen barefoot with a baby on my hip making dinner while rocking out to some Tonic or Emerson Hart.
Helping Gramma in the kitchen (okay, so she is making meatloaf here on Wednesday evening and not Thanksgiving food yet, but Cecilia enjoyed "helping" anyway!)
Hanging out with family... Grampa and Uncle Tim (and Gabby... is she a relative? Honorary Aunt, maybe?)
Helping Gramma set the table for the Thanksgiving feast
Caroline's pumpkin turkey centerpiece
Young musicians
The food! Turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce (both canned and homemade!), stuffing (both in the bird and baked in a dish... oh, and Tim's own separate dish of onion and celery-free stuffing), cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes, squash casserole, and pumpkin and pecan pies! We didn't even bother with baking rolls, there was so much food! Oh, and we had the traditional dish of black olives on the table, much to my girls' delight!
Caroline and Cecilia with their honorary cousins, Dutch and Tyke. Try getting two kids and two dogs to all stay still and look at the camera all at once... it can't be done. This was the closest we got. You ruined it by looking away, Dutch!
This must not really be Mason... Mason would be hissing and running away. She probably gave herself a three-hour bath after escaping.
And this was a few days after Thanksgiving, but can anyone tell what is different about Caroline???
5 comments:
noticed when we saw you at church, she has bangs, looks cute!
Bangs!!! Cute.
bangs! they look great!
Mason doesn't look happy. Her tail is kinda puffed up.
i see bangs. how does caroline like her new 'do?
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