{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
Recently we got the exciting upgrade from crib to Big Girl Bed.
Yesterday I took the kiddos to the nursing home near us, just to provide the residents with some company. I got a tip from a local parish newsletter that this is a good volunteer opportunity for moms of children; lots of other things we’d like to help out with are not doable with kids in tow, but visiting the elderly is not only possible with children, but (as I’ve been learning) so much better with children! I keep saying that I have never made people so happy with so little effort: the old folks are just overjoyed to see toddlers, and my kids get a lot out of it too. (When we were younger, my sisters and I would sometimes visit the elderly to do singing or Irish Step Dancing for them. I did this a little bit with college friends as well.)
It certainly helps me out that we have a nursing home literally three blocks from us.
Two visiting tips that I’ve recently learned:
Balloons. If you have a child and the child has a balloon or there is a balloon drifting around in the room, all the rest will sort itself out. The kid will play with the balloon or can pass it back and forth to an elderly person… whatever happens, all parties will be delighted.
Name tags. I think next time I will try having a name tag…
This is me meeting someone who is hard of hearing:
“What’s your name, dear?”
“Deirdre.”
“What?”
“DEIRDRE.”
“Georgia?” (I get that a lot.)
[fast forward to:]
“You can call me DEE!”
Yesterday was a special day, as it included this exchange:
“Tell me your name?”
“DEIRDRE”
“Shear-shan? what?”
“DEAR-RAH! DEER-DRUH.”
“…Beer-Cup?”
Don’t think I can top that one.
Anyway, I didn’t have any photos of the nursing home. But I did have a photo of the Big Girl Bed. So there you go.
This week’s links!
A-mazing photos of the interiors of churches with a twist: a vertical panoramic view. It’s a little bit dizzying and a lotta bit awesome.
If you are someone who enjoys listening to Catholic content (podcasts and all that… something I’ve never gotten around to), you might be interested in a heads up about Catholicast. I don’t know a whole lot about it, but have heard this from a friend whose parents are the ones responsible for forming the collection:
“We recorded priests, nuns, monks, psychologists, married couples, great evangelists, bishops, archbishops, Metropolitans, and even a Rabbi. :-)…
After years of only having all these treasures available only via CD, my older brother, Mark, and my parents are in the midst of putting all the talks that we have recorded, online, to make them available for the benefit of all for a monthly subscription fee.”
A new service is on the horizon for women in New England (and it happens to be here in Manchester): Catholic Medical Center is preparing to open a new Women’s Wellness Center for OBGYN care. Right now, the area doesn’t have any major place for women to turn if they want reproductive health care that is Catholic, but this place will be 100% above-board, including offering NaPro Technology to treat infertility.
If you’re around here and you’re interested, call them to get on the patient registration wait list! They are hoping to have people signing up right away so that the powers that be know that this care is in demand.
We’ve posted this before, but Auntie Leila thought it would be worth revisiting, since we’ve been talking about the whole parental supervision/children’s play topic: Not Duffers, Won’t Drown. It’s also relevant because there is a movie coming out! I haven’t read the book, so I’ll have to get on that… the movie certainly looks exciting.
Did you catch my mom’s update yesterday about doings around here and, in particular, her upcoming eBook God Has No Grandchildren? (Isn’t it such a good title?)
OK, someone talk to me about Magic Custard Cake. I saw a series of articles about how amazing this kind of cake is and I’m certainly interested to try it!
Liturgical Year:
Today we honor St. Robert Bellarmine
From the Archives:
Library Project: Salt & Pepper and the Wonder Clock
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