An Advent Blessing-Snow!

Today we had or 3rd snow of the season.  It is just so nice to have snow on the ground during Advent.  My preparations for the coming of our Lord's birthday have been going really well.  I am very busy of course but in a good way.  We have a couple of traditions that we do each year that help with preparing for the Christmas Season.  First we have the Advent wreath, we have an elf that visits us each year to report about the children to St. Nicholas, we do activities on an advent calendar, we do the Advent Adventures with Holy Heroes (www.holyheroes.com) and new this year we are making Jessie tree ornaments.  On Christmas day each child recieves 3 gifts (as Jesus did) and Santa brings each child one.  Santa also fills their stockings with little things.  After opening gifts we have a nice breakfast and then play until our dinner of ham, etc...  May God bless you this Advent Season and this Christmas!

Thanksgiving visit

We are heading back to PA for Thanksgiving soon!  It is really coming up fast.  We are so looking forward to visiting with family and friends alike.  We hope to see as many friends as possible given the short time.  We miss everyone so much!  Looking forward to catching up.  :)

We are having a....

We had our mid-pregnancy ultrasound today.  Thanks be to God that everything looks as it should with no idications of abnormality or complications.  We found out the sex of the baby today and it is a .... call me! lol

Speaking of Life

I just found a great blog dedicated to life when I was researching certain company's links to Planned Parenthood. It is www.erasetheneed.wordpress.com I was looking at the October 7 entry regarding the Susan G Komen Foundation and their link to Planned Parenthood. Things in life are rarely cut and dry but there are a lot of shades of gray for us to grapple with. This entry helped me to decide what I think is right (from a Catholic perspective). I hope that you will visit this site and talk with others about this important subject.

40 Days for Life

An update on the 40days for life campaign going on until Oct. 31st (you still have time to fast and pray!) as of day 20 238 little babies have been saved! How wonderful keep up the good work out there! Our school is going to Planned Parenthood this Friday to pray, will you pray for an end to abortion too? God bless.

40 days for life

As of the 13th day of the current 40 days for life campaign 138 babies have been saved!  Thanks be to God!  Keep up the prayers and fasting.

Saving money

This week I attended our Mother's group and they had a great subject this meeting-saving money!  Two of the ladies shared some wonderful information with us about coupons, freebies and their strategies for saving in their households.
They shared that you can download coupons right to your Kroger card!  How wonderful!  Printable coupons are available at http://www.coupons.com/ and http://www.print.coupons.com/  Daily deals can be found at http://www.groupon.com/  A good blog out there to catch deals is http://www.gooddealmama.com/  There are so many ways to save out there once you start surfing the web on this topic there are hundreds of free products and coupons to be had.  Happy shopping!

St Therese pray for us!

Happy St. Therese feast day!