Gratitude Day 7: Divine Mercy

Thankful for 30 minutes in traffic to listen to this devotion

St. Faustina, pray for us

Gratitude day 6: daughters

I could post pictures of these happy, healthy girls everyday. Additional gratitude for living in a neighborhood that we can "stroll" to school

Gratitude day 4: ballerina

Four year old ballerinas. 

Gratitude day 2: the Saints

I felt so lucky to go to a presentation of relics. He brought over 100 first class relics. Including a portion of the true cross and some of Mary's veil (2nd class, obviously). I said a quick prayer before entering. Something like, one saint speak to me and the first one I saw was Blessed Anna Marie Taiga. She is a patron of mothers and housewives. Perfect!!

Blessed Pier Giorgio 

Saint Therese of Liseux

Gratitude day 1

Thankful for first grade Halloween parades

Three Little Angels

Eden - 2008

Anna - 2010

 Catie -2013

 

 

September Quick Takes

I wish I could be more consistent in posting these every week. Jen gives good inspiration.....
Conversion Diary

1. I watched some of A Place at the Table documentary on Netflix. We watched the producers on the Daily Show talk about it and I was intrigued. It got me kind of depressed though. Food insecurity is a complex issue.

2. It led me to look up the town, Jonestown MS. In the documentary, they said this town didn't have a decent grocery store and a lady drove to Batesville to get fruit and vegetables. The graphic in the doc showed that Jonestown was west of Batesville but I didn't believe it but Google Maps proved me wrong.

3. So of course I had to put Jonestown into Zillow to see what real estate is like around there. I was blown away to see you could get a foreclosed 3/1 house in Clarksdale for $19,500. Um, most cars cost more than that. Then I found me dream retirement home in Marks, MS. A 9 bedroom estate on 6 acres, 45 miles from Oxford, for $425,000. Much, much different than California real estate.

4.  It has only been one week but I'm loving being a dance mom. Here is hoping Anna will keep loving dance class. She practices her ballet to "I could sing of your love forever". I mean can it get any cuter!! But check these out:

5. We were hoping Eden could do an art class at the same time but it was full. I think I'm going to make a chore chart for her but I don't think she will be motivated by allowance. Hmmmm...

6. Bumbo+Popsicle 

7. Eden told her teacher she will be playing in the backyard this weekend. Fun!!