“Since everything is coming to an end like this, you should be living holy and saintly lives while you wait and long for the Day of God to come, when the sky will dissolve in flames and the elements melt in the heat. What we are waiting for is what he promised: the new heavens […]

Inspired by the inspiring work of Elizabeth Foss over at the 4 Real Forum we have been doing some special Advent activities and reading. Elizabeth has some wonderful plans for Tomie de Paolo’a books about Christmas. She also has a plan for Jan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby. We are using these plans as well as reading: […]

Why is the Bonny Blue House pink? I was making an effort to decorate for Advent and was using my minimal HTML skills to change some colors. Anyway, it’s a long story and I don’t come off too well in it. I ended up having to switch to a template provided by the blog host […]

One of the wonderful things about having the children home all day id that we can do so much more for the different Liturgical Seasons. The last week or so I have been teaching them about Liturgical Seasons in the church. Now we can incorporate Advent right into our whole school day and live the […]

Things I LOVE about the day after Thanksgiving….. Not going out to shop. I honestly can not figure out why people subject themselves to this. I was barraged this morning with no less than twenty-five emails from different catalog companies and stores announcing their free shipping offers and sale prices. Why go out? It’s cold, […]