We Are All Called to Lives of Holiness
My five year old daughter started First Grade yesterday. We have been homeschooling for a year. Kindergarten was very relaxed because I didn't want to force her too quickly into a rigid school routine. She was interested in starting some school at three and became very interested at four. To my delight, not so much …
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Last month I formally, well, semi-formally, started to home-school my 4 year old daughter. We did letter crafts and other activities over the past year, but it wasn't a set curriculum I was using. I had decided to order the Catholic Heritage Curriculum for Pre-school to get us started. The set came with what we …
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My regular Confessor knows just how much I struggle with being a stay-at-home mom. The reasons are varied, but more than anything, I am trying to find the balance between doing what is best for my daughter and using the gifts that God has given me. I know that the best thing is for me …
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Today I am going to take a break from my series on sinful anger to participate in CatholicMom.com's Small Success Thursdays. I will say that beginning my Lenten series on sinful anger is a small success for this week. For those of you who have struggled with anger at different periods of your life, I …
Swimming the Depths 