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A Considered Childhood

  • As much as I am able, every day, I will ensure that my child will: * Live the Liturgy * Experience loveliness * Breathe deeply: Fresh air and exercise * Serve others * Listen to, contemplate, and exchange ideas. * Develop expressive skills. * Practice logical reasoning. Math. * Receive focused attention and affection

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Rainy Days!

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April 30, 2009 in Flowers, outside, Posted by MaryBeth, Weather, yard and garden | | Comments (0)

Rain!

It's raining! A steady, sometimes rather heavy, glorious rain. And it makes me so happy. Admittedly, part of me is happy because I was up all night with Karoline and her ridiculous penchant for cereal at 2AM and again at 5. The rain means I don't have to haul seven children and my very tired self to soccer all day today. But more than that, I hope it just rains and rains and rains for the sake of rain. It's been so dry for so long that I'm literally thirsty for this stuff falling from the sky. And then I hope it stops. Tomorrow--after canceling tomorrow's soccer games, but in time to use the gift of the day to plant pansies and mums and seriously clean up the mess that is my late summer garden.

For today, though, there will be soup to bubble on the stove and some stacks of gardening magazines to peruse. A few more "first of school" putterings will happen and time will be made just to sit in silence. And hear the rain.

September 06, 2008 in Weather | | Comments (3)