The Camino, Elections, and Fears/Lies in our ears

I’ll open this post by referencing another blog, one written by a Mormon mama who is interesting, talented, and has incredible home-birth stories. Just saying. Fact: she has also struggled with infertility. I loved her most recent post. She and her husband are having another baby! I love several things that she said, one ofContinueContinue reading “The Camino, Elections, and Fears/Lies in our ears”

What I LEARNED from TEACHING Children’s Liturgy

Every so often my sister and I lead “Children’s Liturgy.” This means that a bunch of little kids with big eyes and legs dangling to the floor stare at us while we try to talk to them about Jesus. Here is something that I love about them: they haven’t learned the “correct” answers yet, theContinueContinue reading “What I LEARNED from TEACHING Children’s Liturgy”

St. Luke and Colleen

When I sat in mass on the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, the priest started mass with a short biography of St. Luke–but it was different from any other St. Luke bio I had ever heard. Most St. Luke biographies outline that this Evangelist wrote the Gospel according to St. Luke (kind of obvious,ContinueContinue reading “St. Luke and Colleen”

Emotional Vomit: The Canticle of Zechariah, Events and Thoughts

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people and set them free. Yesterday I sat on a plastic chair in a row of six other plastic chairs to talk to the young people of my parish about parish involvement. I was a part of a panel: old and young,ContinueContinue reading “Emotional Vomit: The Canticle of Zechariah, Events and Thoughts”

OCTOBER FIRST!

Goals for the month, according to my Twitter (NellskaC): #OctoberGoals Blog like mad, run, love, dance, killer budget, look cute, pray, write, plan #Camino13, go2 #easternmkt Sooooo: yeah! Also: monthly photo challenge found on Pinterest deems today’s theme “fall.” Here are my cousin and little bro’s gf petting a super friendly cat on a fallContinueContinue reading “OCTOBER FIRST!”