Lord, That I May See

So, I have come to that inevitable place in every pregnancy when I am so done with everything and just want this baby in my arms! I have 3 weeks left and of course they will be the longest weeks of the pregnancy. I don't even really care about Easter right now, as all I can think about is babies. :) Somehow that doesn't really go with meditating on the Passion. I've been watching Call the Midwife rather than Mel Gibson's the Passion. I've been cleaning the baby bassinet and skipping my Magnificat readings. I can't really care about Holy Week activities or menus when I secretly hope it won't even matter cuz I'll be having a newborn. The exercising that I've done so faithfully is oh-so-hard to maintain, because it's almost over ... any day now, right? Of course, when my rational mind kicks back in, I know all of the reasons why mid-April is just fine and I really must get through Easter (because Daddy doesn't know the first thing about...

We had a wonderful dinner of homemade pizza on St. Joseph's Day. The girls and I also made Struffoli , an Italian dessert also known as "Honey Balls" that is made in Italy around Christmastime and St Joseph's Day . Unfortunately, after helping to roll dozens of the balls of dough, Rosebud didn't like the end product of the struffoli, but thankfully everyone else did. :) Here is what the unusual dessert looked like:

is what Sunshine calls these pigtails. I laugh inside every time she says it!

I've been feeling so blessed recently.  Of course, I am always blessed, but this month I have been realizing it daily.  I originally intended to record my "1000 gifts" this Lent like I did two years ago, but somehow I haven't started.  I feel the gratitude several times daily and when it wells up inside of me, I don't feel the need to write it down.   Two years ago, my Lenten resolution of recording God's blessings was a discipline practiced at a time in which I did not readily recognize the gifts of God in my life.  That discipline bore fruit in helping me to recognize the joy that is my life.  I love the quote: (maybe from Ann Voskamp's book ?) "Gratitude doesn't come from joy, joy comes from gratitude."   It's true!   Those 6 weeks in 2011, I had to make myself write down those 20 blessings every. single. day. and if I didn't look hard for them I wouldn't be able to make my list by the end of the day.  And so, by the end o...

Some links that I have been enjoying today.  Thanks to those who pointed them out to me! "If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” "Introverted people live in a human-sized hamster ball" "He’s not afraid of doing the hard things, even if it includes being called lazy or fearful by us."