Phoning In

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It’s been a while since I’ve pointed you to the other writing I do, so…here’s your chance to click and find the voice you know and love here in other places (which you are also welcome and encouraged to know and love): Advent Dropouts, Unite! OK, maybe not. In this month’s “Just for Moms” at [...]

Advent Wreath Link-Up Fun [with updates]

Advent Wreath Link-Up at Snoring Scholar

Welcome to this year’s Advent Wreath Link-Up! We’re past the halfway point of Advent, and this Sunday, we’ll be putting up our Christmas decorations. I don’t know how I’ve held off my deco-happy kids this long, except that they are enjoying the “lighting things on fire and reading out loud and watching toddler brother freak [...]

Weekly Giveaway: Rooted in Love & Advent at Ephesus

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This week’s giveaway: Rooted in Love: Our Calling as Catholic Women By Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle (2012, Ave Maria Press) I already told you what I think about it. Here’s what the publisher’s blurb says: In her book Rooted in Love Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle, bestselling author and popular EWTN television and radio personality, accompanies Catholic women through the [...]

Spending Advent with Mary: Two Books to Guide You Closer to Christ

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A Mary Moment Monday post If you’re like me, the fact that the Second Sunday of Advent has come and gone doesn’t mean you have your Advent figured out. (If you’re not like me, feel free to brew some coffee and smile.) This year, somehow, despite all the usual floundering, I’ve found myself with an [...]

Got a minute for some Quick Takes?

Advent Wreath Link-Up at Snoring Scholar

— 1 — Remember last year’s Advent wreath link-up? It’s not to late to enter for this year’s! Because yes, I’m doing it again. {Why not? It was fun! } What you do: Take a picture of your Advent wreath. How you participate: Option 1: Post your picture to your blog and send me the link to [...]

Don’t forget to send your Advent wreath pictures!

Advent Wreath Link-Up at Snoring Scholar

Remember last year’s Advent wreath link-up? Wasn’t it fun? Didn’t you love it? Well, I did. So let’s do it again! What you do: Take a picture of your Advent wreath. How you participate: Option 1: Post your picture to your blog and send me the link to that post via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, email, or by leaving a comment right [...]

Mary at the Manger

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A local farm near us does a reenactment of the Christmas Story every year, loading folks up on wagons and driving them to different stations. One station replays the Annunciation and then the appearance of the angel to Joseph, reassuring him that he should marry Mary.  The next shows Mary and Joseph arriving in Bethlehem, [...]

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