Sunday Stride – St. Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.
June 21st is the Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga. This image is of a statue of Aloysius near the front entrance of my school. In most...
June 20, 2020
Daily Step – Paper and Tape and Vision
New life greeted me the other day born from a pack of construction paper and a roll of masking tape. I walked into the twins room...
June 19, 2020
Daily Step – Ears to Listen
The boys had a short run in the kiddie pool the other day. My oldest argued with me over wearing a swim shirt. He is blessed...
June 18, 2020
Daily Step – “Come help me.”
“Mom, I need help! Come help me!” The words were faint, almost as if they were floating just out of my grasp, part of a dream...
June 17, 2020
Daily Step – Holding onto Joy.
Sometimes my boys make me jewelry. Mostly they make robot aliens and characters from whatever show they are watching. “Look mom, I made this robot with...
June 16, 2020
Daily Step – May we be overcome by love.
“I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people…” This weekend, we broke out the $30 pool we bought from Sam’s a...
June 15, 2020
Sunday Stride – Because He liked us.
One thing we started recently was family dinners. Pre-covid, we often got home too late and the boys were too hungry to sit and eat together....
June 13, 2020
Daily Step – Bringing Stories to Life
Last night, I walked into my office to find an explosion of kid scissors and paper scraps. There is always collateral damage to my boys creativity....
June 12, 2020
Daily Step – You are not alone.
“Mom can we please go somewhere today?” Summer is here and my boys are bored. I can’t blame them, they’ve been stuck here since March… and...
June 11, 2020
Daily Step – Piece by Piece.
My husband has been redoing our garage for the last six months. We moved in five years ago to a house with a lot of issues....
June 9, 2020