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On June 15th, Baby Gwen was baptized and we were thrilled to have another little Catholic under our roof.
The smell of the holy oil on a newborn’s head has to be the best smell in creation.
Gwen and Father.
And she doesn’t know it yet, but Gwen has the world’s sweetest most wonderful Godmother ever!
On the Homestead:
It’s a good thing we like peppers because they’re coming out of our ears!
Book Love: I finished two books off my Reading Goals for 2013 list this week! The Power and the Glory (loved it loved it!) and Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter. Now on to Wives and Daughters and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall!
The Quotable Benjamin:
“You gotta be sure to wash your hands real good if you touch a dragon. Because they are NASTY.“
“I’m hungrier than an little raccoon that’s never had anything to eat in the world! In eighteen hundred million years!“- on why he can’t clean up his Legos.
The Quotable Lucy:
Lucy, with a concerned face, watching me lick an envelope: “Mama! Don’t eat that!”
Links:
I Have a Kid Hangover (But I Manage to Write Anyway): Ellen Painter Dollar (I loved this piece. What a great reminder.)
“The past thirteen-plus years for me have been one long exercise in welcoming the messy, noisy, needy people who are my children. They make it hard to get anything done, especially writing. But without them, I’m not sure I’d have anything worthwhile to write, or for others to read. More and more, I am convinced that much of value in life simply cannot be managed; it must instead be welcomed with grace.”
What Is a Classical Christian Education? at Life Your Way
How to Restore a Cast Iron Skillet at Mama and Baby Love
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I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!
Love,
Haley
Yay!!!! Welcome to the Church, sweet Gwen! I just LOVE her hair!
Thanks, Mary! Isn’t the hair awesome?!
I love that swimsuit! Keep me updated on what’s happening in Wives & Daughters! I know I’m repeating myself, but I know it backwards and forwards. No one I know has ever read it!
I will! I’m just about 20 pages in so far. And it’s a weirdly sized edition…really big but paperback? So it’s tricky to read when nursing or in the bath tub which are kind of my go-to reading times, haha. So it might take me awhile.
Baptisms are such sweet and holy moments! I love that Lucy is big enough to get her own quotes these days.
Me, too! She’s getting so silly and hilarious.
I LOOOVE your bathing suit! You look amazing!
Aww, thank you, Sarah!
Gwen is so adorable with her funny little “fingers that I have but I don’t know how they work yet”! And I love your quotable kids!
I love those precious baby fingers, too
I’m so jealous of your peppers. First year we tried a couple pepper plants and live and learn, don’t get them from Lowes? Idk. Not a single pepper yet.
However–my tomatoes are going crazy. More than I know what to do with at the moment. Yey fresh veggies!
And the pictures are all so darling
Our peppers have never gotten so big and beautiful! Last year they were all tiny and never got big so you had to chop up a gazillion of them to make anything, haha.
Just finished a re-watch of the awesome Wives & Daughters BBC film series. I love it so much! I’ll have to read the book at some point.
Congrats on Gwen’s Baptism! Lovely pics all around.
Thanks, Deirdre! I love that miniseries, too. I’m forcing myself to wait to re-watch it until I’m done reading the book but during those late nite nursing sessions…I’m sorely tempted.
This will be our second year of classical conversations. I really like it! There is one in tally too, at four oaks I believe.
Ooo! Tell me more! Email or FB me? I want to hear all about what Gabe thinks about it.
Please fb or email me (i will totally forget when i am at an actual computer) and ask away. It’s a great fit for him!
Congrats on the Baptism..she is a beautiful baby!
Thank you, Christine!
Congrats on Gwen’s baptism! My husband and I were honored to be Godparents at a baptism yesterday. I could not wait to smell the chrism oil on his head. It is the best smell ever!
Yes! The best! Congratulations, Godmother!
Welcome to the Church baby Gwen! LOVE your swimsuit too! Where is it from?
Thank you, Julia! I bought it last year at Old Navy on supersale. The sides are ruched (sp?) so it’s forgiving to my post partum middle
Congratulations on Gwen’s baptism! Your kids’ quotes are the only ones I know that rival mine. =) I also need to start Wives + Daughters at some point – I do own it already, so that’s a step in the right direction.