St. Hildegard’s feast day is coming up on September 17th, and if you haven’t encountered this lady and added her to your home’s liturgical calendar already, I hope you’ll consider it. She was quite the woman and well-worth having in your corner. Close up of one of the beautiful illustrations from The Women Doctors of … Read more
Summer brings with it such joy. Children celebrate being free from the confines of the school schedule. The days grow longer and the sunshine lasts past bedtime, which always seems to inch later and later as June progresses. As a parent, I love the joy my children find in summer and how that joy saturates … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. Read the full disclosure on my about page. The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is very dear to my heart. Once upon a time, when I was a missionary with Life Teen, I was blessed to be in Mexico on December 12th. It was truly an incredible experience. There … Read more
Teresa of Avila is one of my all time favorite saints, a near and dear friend, and a wonderful patron. This year, to introduce Gianna to her, I created an Interior Castle craft project. First, we talked about Teresa’s vision of the soul as a castle made out of one big diamond. Castles are an … Read more
Saint Francis loved animals, and we do too. William G also love cooking and baking, so we’ve gotten into the habit in the past years of making treats for the pets and wild animals in our lives in honor of his feast day. Here are a few animal friendly recipes that you might want to … Read more
We haven’t kicked off our new school year yet, but I am starting to gear up, and am trying to ease G back into the habit of having regular lessons. As G is a beginning reader, we spend a lot of time on literacy skills in order to give her a firm foundation. I try … Read more
The Catholic Church is full of feast days. Every single day of the calendar year there is at least one saint celebrated, not to mention the larger feasts and solemnities sprinkled in. It can feel overwhelming to think about starting to celebrate the liturgical year as a family, at least it did to me. Now … Read more
Each month I like to choose a few saints from the liturgical calendar to celebrate. Sometimes I have my act together and plan the whole month ahead of time, and sometimes I find out that it’s a feast day when I’m reading morning prayer from my Magnificat and scramble to find an appropriate coloring page/craft/book/baking … Read more
G coloring St. Catherine of Sienna in honor of her feast day today Coloring is one of our all-time favorite family activities. It can be done by the young and the old, and offers a shared experience and chance for conversation with our kids. We have particularly enjoyed finding Catholic coloring resources for our kids … Read more
I have been looking for a simple morning offering to do with our children for about a year now. It’s been the biggest piece of our attempt at liturgical living more fully we’ve been missing. But the kids just aren’t quite old enough for the traditional ones (too complicated and long), and I haven’t wanted … Read more