Posted in Church Year, Writing on Feb 16th, 2010
Today is Shrove Tuesday or, if you live in New Orleans, Mardi Gras. Tonight, my kids and I will go to church and eat pancakes, a traditional last hurrah of a meal before the austerity of the Lenten fast begins tomorrow.
This year, instead of fasting from some kind of food (though my kids once [...]
Posted in Reading on Feb 12th, 2010
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, winner of the 1986 Newbery.
I read this book, which has no illustrations, to my 3-year-old daughter in one sitting. She kept asking for another chapter…and, no, it wasn’t bedtime or naptime. It was mid-morning, and she fell in love with this book.
Me, too.
I once heard Susan [...]
Posted in 1000 things on Feb 5th, 2010
It’s the first Friday of February, and so it’s time again to remember all the things I’ve had to be grateful for in the past month. I managed to list nearly 400 things since my last gratitude post, but I won’t include them all here. (Now you have something to be grateful for!)
Here are a [...]