Our Lady of Sorrows

The Seven Sorrows
The Prophecy of Simeon over the Infant Jesus. (Lk 2:34)
The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family. (Mt 2:13)
The Loss of the Child Jesus for three days. (Lk2:43)
The Meeting of Jesus and Mary along the way of the cross. (Lk 23:26)
The Crucifixion, where Mary stands at the foot of the cross. (Jn 19:25)
The Descent from the cross, where Mary receives the dead body of Jesus in her arms. (Mt 27:57)
The Burial of Jesus. (Jn 19:40)

Today, September 15th is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows.
It is a day to remember Our Blessed Mother's many sufferings.
Catholic Icing had many ideas to help children think about this day.
We made bookmarks, so that whenever we are reading, we can be reminded to pray for Mary's help us when we deal with our own small sufferings. The idea comes from Our Domestic Church.

The beads are Mary's tears....

Our Lady of Sorrow, Pray for us!!

Wordless Wednesday---A blast from the past

In honor of the Feast of the Exaltation on the Cross

may we present our beautiful cross suncatchers.
Based on the pattern we found on Kaboose crafts.
All the easy directions to this craft can be found at this great site.

Feast of the Triumph of the Holy Cross

Are you kidding me??

Have we really reach that "I want this for Christmas" time of year??......I think I need to discard all the catalogs before they enter the house......

Makes My Monday--soccer season

It's that time of year again....although I think Kimmy is using a volleyball!

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My cake decorator has been at it again

This time it was a wonderful circus cake.

Another cake extraordinaire, Becky!!!

It's that time of year.....

It's time to sew with flannel....
Or fuzzy pants, as the kids call them....

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit Soulemama to leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

She didn't need any embellishment,

but I made her a little rose
anyways......

The pattern can be found at the Lion Brand Yarn site.

You may have to make a free account with the site to access the patterns.

Happy Birthday Blessed Mother Mary

Our table centerpiece for Mary's birthday.

We made the lapbook a few years ago.

You can check out the post about our lapbook here.

We added a lovely candle to our display this year. I got the idea from Family at the Foot of the Cross.

Very quick and simple to make, but it will burn my our Lady of Grace shrine throughout the year.

Wordless Wednesday: Our Resident Cake Artist at Work

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This may be the last fresh picked corn of the season.....

The Road to Grandma's House--For Daniel

These photos are for Daniel, who is now in New York City---not Central New York State.

There is a difference.

In fact, some of Danny's new friends doubted that there were roads, with no lines, with no houses, that actually go somewhere.

The photo above is a corn field road---alot of corn, growing on both sides of the road....there is a barn in the upper left corner of this picture.

And as you can see, we also have telephone poles, bringing telephone and electrical service out in this part of New York. (Although much of these lines don't bring cable...you need Dish Network for that.

Some roads have no telephone poles----but they do go somewhere.....in fact these roads go to Grandma and Grandpa's house.....these our the photos of our drive to the Labor Day picnic.
You often see skid marks on the road....these are generally from slamming on the brakes to avoid animals....deer, foxes, coyotes, and other small varmits....
To prove these are read roads....you can see in the distance headlights coming this way....

Yep, an oncoming car...you may need to make this photo larger.....in the country, you are not supposed to photograph and drive.....

Skype--Makes My Monday!!!!

I may have mentioned, (about 100 times) that Danny left for the seminary 2 weeks ago.

He is about 4 hours from home.

Well, let me tell you!!! The thing that "Makes My Monday" and everyday has to be Skype.

And by the looks of this photo, it makes Dan's brothers and sisters Monday, and everyday, also!!

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The L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge--"begin the story edition"...

The British were surrounding the fort. The men were busy at their posts, trying to keep the enemy at bay.....the children were called into service. Vital work was needed from this young patriots to keep the fort running.....could they step up....and help the cause......

Welcome to this week's The LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge :)

The theme is "Begin the Story" pick a photo that could launch a story, and-if you'd like, add a starter sentence to get the imagination going. Or, choose a photo that would grace the cover of a storybook...or- come up with something that to you says, "begin the story".
I can't wait to see what you come up with!

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit Soulemama to leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Pp is for penguin---a yummy snack....

We started Pp week in our kindergarten and the animal of the week was by popular demand---penguin.
We love all the Tacky the Penguin books. And I found a perfect kindergarten level science book with The Penguin.

Following our stories we made a delicious
penguin treat.
All it takes is oreo cookies, a hershey kiss, candy corn and a little frosting to be used as glue.

Luke looks like he is getting a little inspiration from Kimberly.

Our stuffed penguin looked on as we made our treats.

Yummy!!! Yummy!!!

Wordless Wednesday---making purple playdough

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