Happy St. Patrick's Day

We started our morning with traditional green pancakes. We've been eating them since Anna was 2 yo.

We're trying real hard to rise earlier. This morning's alarm was set for 7am and kids were dressed, fed, done with chores and ready to learn by 8 am. YEAH!

It's 1pm and our schoolwork is all done (Woohoo) and so we're about to begin our St. Patrick's craft. I'll post a pic when we're done.

St. Martin Lanterns

Annie has a wonderful idea to celebrate St. Martin de Tours next Wednesday. I hope to make these with my kiddos. I love it when I find out about an idea with enough time to implement (at least 3-5 days). I'm not so good with reading about an idea the night before and implementing.

My November Resolution (since its not the new year ... liturgical or regular) is to do one saint craft a week. That will be a big task for me!

For November we'll celebrate the following saints:

November 11th - St. Martin de Tours
November 17th - St. Elizabeth of Hungary
November 24th - St. Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions
December 3rd - St. Francis Xavier or St. Rose of Lima (only because this is Sophia Roses' bday and it would be nice to celebrate her saint name)

Wish me luck. And please email me any ideas for these saints. Other than reading books and handing out coloring sheets, I'm not very good with coming up with craft ideas BUT can steal ideas beautifully!! ;-)

isansoko at yahoo dot com

Feast Day of St. Josemaria Escriva

Today is the feast day of one of my favorite saints, St. JoseMaria Escriva. Tonight we will be going to a special mass to celebrate his feast day.

To find a local mass celebrating St. Josemaria's feast day click here.

“Let's not deceive ourselves: in our life we will find vigor and victory and depression and defeat. This has always been true of the earthly pilgrimage of Christians, even of those we venerate on the altars. Do you remember Peter, Augustine, or Francis? I have never liked biographies of saints which naïvely — but also with a lack of sound doctrine — present their deeds as if they had been confirmed in grace from birth. No. The true life stories of Christian heroes resemble our own experience: they fought and won; they fought and lost. And then, repentant, they returned to the fray.”

-St. Josemaria Escriva