• How to Celebrate the Easter Season
    Faith

    5 Ways to Continue the Easter Celebration

    It’s been just over a month since Easter Sunday, and though the secular world has already hung up their bonnets, for us Catholics, the Easter season is only a little over half way through. I’ll be honest. I’ve forgotten it’s Easter. Easter Sunday passed me by, and I sunk back into my everyday routine. I gave in to the daily drone of life and forgot that it is not Ordinary Time. The feast of the Easter Season has not yet passed. There are times for fasting and sorrow, times for the everyday, the simple and the ordinary, and times for celebration. The Church has given us the liturgical seasons because…

  • Books,  Elevenses

    May Reading List

    I’ve got a pretty varied line-up of books this month, and I couldn’t be more excited! Finding reading time is becoming more difficult as Clark gets older, so I’m not able to finish books off quite as quickly as I could when I was feeding him ’round the clock with nothing to do but sit and read. Still, I’ve been able to squeeze in some time here and there. These books should be showing up in my Elevenses posts in the next few months (with the exception of Crossroads of Twilight because I’m reeeeally behind on reviewing the series), so if you haven’t read them and want to join in…