By the end of this month, we started cooking in full summertime mode! Turning on the oven makes the house feel a million times warmer, so I started searching out grilled meats and lots of salads. We really hit our groove earlier this year with winter favorites, so I’m excited to see what we love […]
This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission of any sale made at no extra cost to you. We pray these words so often, they almost become meaningless: “Give us this day our daily bread…” But what does that really mean, our daily bread? What trust does that require? It reminds […]
There’s something special about foods that feel season-specific. Summertime seems to be full of them: burgers and hotdogs on the grill, fresh corn on the cob, berries in every variety. One of the desserts I make every summer is Blueberry Peach Cobbler. This year has been especially awesome because the kids can all do a […]
Life feels really heavy right now, you know? The virus, the election, the nastiness of the Internet…if I stay too long in that stuff, I can start to feel very anxious and overwhelmed. So to combat that a little, I’ve been using my home as a distraction. Projects, new décor pieces, paint – it’s all […]
“February” by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1890) This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission of any sale made at no extra cost to you. Have you ever heard a homily/sermon/talk that felt like it was spoken just for you? We had a visiting priest say Mass for us on Sexagesima Sunday […]
“Goodbye, on the Mersey” by James Tissot (1881) To everything there is a season, and after fourteen years, it’s time for me to say goodbye to the Big White Farmhouse. Since my last update, I’ve discovered quite a bit about my health and how I need to proceed going forward. Iron deficiency was just a […]
This post contains affiliate links. Have you heard of Mail Tag? It’s one of the fun little extras I like to include in letters, a way to learn more about your penpal. Today I thought I would give ten questions to get you started and I’ll share my answers too! 1 // Share a poem […]
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This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting the BWF! Term Two! The kids have been working so hard and we’re all looking forward to the upcoming breaks. For this section of our school year, my goals are to have lots of family memories (especially with Advent School) and to get a little poetry […]
Another year, another reading challenge! “The WILLA Literary Awards honor the best in literature, featuring women’s or girls’ stories set in the West that are published each year…The award is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, one of the country’s foremost novelists.” In August 2022, I decided that I would like to […]
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“Reading a book” by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1915) This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission of any sale made at no extra cost to you. Welcome to another segment of New Ideas for Mother Academia! The purpose of this series is to share five ideas for women to dig deeper into […]
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