Savi: "I had a bad dream last night.  I saw bear footprints and jaguar footprints.  But there wasn't any owl footprints."

 Elijah: "Mom, is that pumpkin pie?"
Me: "Yes."
Kyrie: "Yes, it's pumpkin pie.  That she made today."
Elijah: "Even though it's not Halloween?"

 I made homemade bread for the very first time yesterday.  I used Julia Child's Pan de Mie recipe.  And it is good!  I am more excited by this than I would have expected.

Around the breakfast table ( Read more... )

Contemplative Reading

There is a style of praying called lectio divina.  It is a very contemplative style, involving picturing Biblical scenes vividly, meditating on the passages, allowing the words to change your way of seeing things to match God's, and ultimately bringing you to a state of closer union with Him.  I've always felt drawn to lectio ( Read more... )

The Tooth Fairy for this house appears to be either very lazy, very forgetful, or very busy.  Kyrie's tooth has been sitting under her pillow for nearly a week.  So tonight we're bribing her to come, by offering her candy along with the tooth.  (It's a small, Reeses-pieces sized mint-flavored candy, just the right size for a Tooth Fairy, right?) :)

 Savi, referring to her Lilo doll:  "Mom, my baby is way cuter than your baby."

 Savi came up to me with a piece of clothes - a shirt, I think - and said, "This used to be mine!" in an excited tone.  Then, in a more melancholy tone, she added, "But then it got too big for me, and now it's Kyrie's."

So apparently, if I want to, I could borrow Bill Nye the Science Guy tapes from the library and make that the entirety of my science curriculum.  Don't think I'm not thinking about it!  :)

 That's right.  She's no longer my little pagan baby.  She was baptized, and I thought the whole thing was beautiful.  She smells wonderfully, of frankincense.  Despite the fact that she screamed bloody murder during part of her bath last night, she made no cry at all when they poured cold water on her head.  (I would have gone with an immersion ( Read more... )