A new grandson!
This little darling!
John (“Jack”) Stephen Lawler, born to our son Will and his lovely wife Jaime, Monday the 18th. 7 lbs 12 oz of adorable cuteness! Mother and child are doing well! We are so grateful to God.
This is all I have to say this week (other than links!), but do poke around and see what you may have missed in the past. I have so much and am not great at categorizing it or refraining from burying my content in a lot of chitchat about irrelevant goings on!
Sometimes even I try to find something I’ve mentioned and find myself exasperated! So rummage around previous posts and see if you overlooked something!
bits & piecesPeople keep emailing me to ask me “about that book written by a doctor of how to keep your child healthy” — it’s this one: How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor: One of America’s Leading Pediatricians Puts Parents Back in Control of Their Children’s Health by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn.(affiliate link)
I have noticed an alarming rise of people who seem to think one’s children will never get sick and are totally at a loss when they do! People seem to expect “scientists” to come up for shots for everything so we never have to suffer again.
We will get sick — how can it be that we have just totally forgotten about how life really is? You just need to know how to take care of your children and yourself. It’s going to be okay if we get colds and flus this year. Not wonderful, but okay. And completely unavoidable.
I liked this article on The Virtue of Orderliness
If you are in the market for a restored vintage stove, I recommend checking out Savon appliances! Marsha is super helpful and will answer all your questions. I have all sorts of reasons for wanting one (I had my heart set on a vintage O’Keefe & Merritt like one of the ones in the pictures on that site); in the end, despite all Marsha’s kind and patient efforts on my behalf, for reasons I will explain later when I show you what I did get, I decided against it. But it was purely logistical. I think a vintage stove makes so much sense! Proven worth and zero electronics to go expensively and fatally wrong! If you are sick of having your new shiny beepy range go on the blink within a couple of years, look around for a tried-and-true one that someone is getting rid of for practically nothing. Plus, they look amazing (this lady is the guru on the Facebook Vintage Stove page)! Read My [it’s not MY but someone else’s] Experience Living with a Vintage Stove.
A strong piece from Msgr. Pope on marriage and defending it to martyrdom.
We have been doing the 100 Days of Dante together, my husband and I. I admit I have been enjoying “T.S. Elephant” enacting Dorothy Sayers’ translation! Randomly featuring an elephant sock puppet, but actually very well narrated, which I can’t say for some of the others. So far the commentary on the 100 Days videos has been mostly edifying with a few silly moments of 21st-century smugness to be aware of and discuss, if you are watching it with young people. There is just no reason to think we automatically and without reflection ought to be confident we know better than Dante about spiritual matters!
An online Gregorian Chant conference, starting tomorrow! The organizers are definitely spiritually minded, as there is not a ton of information on there about the technical particulars, but it will be worthwhile, with an “all-star line-up of experts” as Peter Kwaskiewski says, if you have an interest in this form of music, including wanting your own “garage schola” or supporting your parish’s effort to renew sacred music, and so on. At the end of the conference, there is a concert by Floriani!
from the archives
My guide to taking care of your sick child at home. Competence is confidence!
The importance of the mother not being over-scheduled: If you can scroll down past all my mundane updates of yore, you will arrive at my “pep talk” about how to look at your time. “… in order to be available to take up the slack, meet an emergency, or even be mentally and physically present for an unforeseen opportunity (say, with a child who is discovering a feature of the world fairly common to every adult, but magical to him at the moment), the mother will by definition require time that is unscheduled. She has to live within this tension of being at rest in order to leap into action.”
I too have written about being willing to suffer for marriage: Nevertheless, He Died for Christ — please consider subscribing to this blog!
liturgical living
St. Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest; Ember Saturday
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My book, The Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life is available from Sophia Press! Also in paperback now! All the thoughts from this blog collected into three volumes, beautifully presented with illustrations from Deirdre, an index in each volume, and ribbons!
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