Our Lady of Guadalupe...
/...please pray for Margaret! The feast day tradition continues and what a beautiful, perfect feast Our Lord picked for this news! More prayers being offered for you and your little one, Margaret. Yippee! I LOVE babies...
I Live in a Zoo!
/Look who I found in my freezer this morning!
Said Stephen, "Mom, he is a POLAR bear. Where'd you expect him to live?"
Of course.
I think we'll read this today.
It's Not all Fun
/This time of year isn't always fun for everyone. Read more at O Night Divine.
Happy Feast Day!
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It's been kind of a joke around here that I've barely left the house since returning home from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last year after Midnight Mass. Karoline was conceived a week later and I spent most of the pregnancy at home, very sick and very happy. So, today was a momentous event. We returned to the Shrine and we visited the same little chapels where we lit candles and prayed last year. This year, there were tears of thanksgiving for the miracle I held in my arms. Oh what a joy to introduce our babe to this beautiful, holy place! What sweetness to honor Our Lady who has so cradled us this year!
It must have been Meet Your Favorite Author Week because after Mass, I wandered down to the bookstore and had a chat with Scott Hahn. I told him how the upper shelf of our library is lined with his books and I had the privilege of introducing him to Catholic Exchange's newest regular contributor. We talked a bit about blogging for Catholic Exchange and he signed my new book for me. It says "Happy Feast Day." 
And it was. It really, really was. Here are more pictures from this place that feels like heaven on earth.
A Good Wife
/Homeliving Helper has much good food for thought today as we ponder our roles as wives. She writes in part:
Some people do admit though, that the mother who stays home to take care of her children is something good and noble, but an idea that a wife actually, can do the same for her husband, is a novelty to them. Why, women should be independent from their husbands, they will say. Behind nice sounding words about equality, the core idea of feminism is women's independence from men. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, remember?
Wrong. Women need men. They need to be protected and nurtured and held. They need the complement to their very souls that men were created to be. What do men need? What do men want?
Do read the rest of the Homeliving Helper's post and let the conversation continue.
