What are the anchors of your day? I started thinking of certain prayers/family rituals as anchors because I wanted them to sink into the rhythm of our day. Seasons come and go, and schedules change as our family adapts to this season’s current priorities. Lent provided us with a [...]
Recently, I have focused on exhorting my children that undertaking such and such an act — ranging from a menial chore like putting away washed dishes on the drying rack, or something more thoughtful such as bringing big brother a cup of ice cold water, or something unexpected like [...]
It is a hard thing to let go sometimes. I find it hard to let go of souvenirs — perhaps because my memory is so poor for events of distant past that I don’t want to forget so I hold onto reminders — whether a piece of paper, a [...]
How I love this Feast Day! Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or The Little Flower, holds a very special place in my heart and in our lives because the lesson that she embraced throughout her life and which has passed down [...]
Excerpt from a Journal Entry: Beautiful moment yesterday — when we were at Coronado Beach and had only another 20 minutes or so before packing up to go home. I was comfortably seated in my beach chair, enjoying reading my book, On a Mission, by Patrick Madrid, when Cody [...]
Some days go by like a whirlwind, filled with many moments of contentment and joy; others have a more measured tempo, with periods of emotional ups and downs; still others are slow-moving because they are weighed down with the heaviness of sickness, hardship or conflict among our loved ones. [...]
If you watch the news, there is a undeniable emphasis on the increase in turmoil in our country. Maybe it may even reach to your own neighborhoods. We seldom have control over what is going on in the outside world. But our families’ domains, in our homes, are places [...]
A few days ago, my 16 year old son called me urgently to come over to a bedroom window — he wanted to show me an amazing sight — one of the most beautiful, spectacular rainbows I had ever seen! It was late in the day, just as [...]
If we are Christians, joy should not be elusive, even in the midst of a pandemic. That’s because true joy has its roots in gratefulness and no matter what hardships we have had to endure, there are always blessings to be found! I say this with certainty because anything [...]
L is for Layers. I like to think of learning as constantly building layers upon layers of knowledge and understanding. The more complex ideas/skill sets that we are trying to teach cannot be fully understood unless our children have mastered the simpler components that make up those ideas and [...]