Thanks once again to our host Larry D. at Acts of the Apostasy, who lives with a teenage driver.
1.
When my big kids were little, they played Mass in the bathroom. The necessary accessories were:
- Holy Water
- Bible
- Crackers for Communion
They said the Lord’s Prayer, and read from the Bible, and it was all very heartwarming.
Now my current 5-year-old has taken to setting up a church for the hippos and bunnies. The required items are:
- Drum Set
- Offering Envelopes
- Collection Basket
- Bulletins
She makes sure there’s a nursery in her pillow-fort church building.
2.
She also likes to play pirates. I tried to serve her hardtack and sauerkraut for lunch today, but she wasn’t convinced it was real pirate food. She voted for fish sticks.
3.
A friend is keeping the kids for us this weekend so we can get away for a couple vacation together. We priced hotels in one town (expensive, yikes), looked at the time required to go down to our favorite patron’s free beach house (too long a drive), decided camping was too much bother to count as R&R, and now are trying to decide . . . which room of the house? We keep telling the kids we’re gonna sleep in their bunkbeds while they’re gone. They think we are joking.
3.5
. . . James Herriot. Seriously. Me. I’d never guessed.
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It’s Link Day. Guys you get your man card punched double if you leave boy links on a girl blog. Surely you aren’t going to be out-linked by a girl, are you? One link per comment so you don’t get accidentally stuck in the automated spam dungeon. Jane-Austen themes purely optional.
Oh and look, I have a link. I stuck up a post at Amazing Catechists yesterday, on how to teach about the sacrament of marriage when your students’ families are not 100% on board. I meant to wait a bit before posting it, but then I needed to send it to somebody, so I went ahead and put it up. One thing that might surprise you — this is a topic where the United State Catholic Catechism for Adults really comes into its own. It’s as if the bishops have some practice with these situations.
Re 1: I used to drink my holy water when I was sick. Other than that my brothers and I would play school. Eventually they got tired of being sent to the Principal’s office so we stuck to building tree forts in the woods.
Re 2: Fish sticks arrrrr!!! Thar be some tasty pyrate food!
Re 3: Hmmm there is an event this weekend… if you want to get out of the house kind of thing. Otherwise if you want to go to Char-town I can potentially hook you up with a free hotel room. Gotta let me know ASAP since a quick check shows reward nights are hard to book this close to the weekend.
Thanks for the offer – I think we’re going to eat sushi Fri. night and go to the art museum and on photo safari sat. Or something. We never do seem to leave town without the kids. It always happens this way. There are so many things in town we like to do on our own, ya know?
So true! There is a lot I want to see yet of the area too. Another suggestion is the Biltmore… that is not too far of a drive and the Holiday Inn Express near there has reasonable rates. Note: The adult daypass for the Biltmore includes wine tasting at the vineyards which I highly recommend. 😉
P.S.S. Art museum is free on Sundays.
I think I remember that last time we didn’t go out of town, Biltmore was where we didn’t go. Hehe. Great idea, though. We’d totally love it, I think.
Oh I forgot to link today… so here is a funny youtube video done by a Presbyterian church in CA about cell phones going off in church: http://youtu.be/D2_c81Nnsc0
That is hilarious. Love it.
Here’s my manly link: Training With Indian Clubs
That is seriously cool. I have to try that. (You still get your man-card punch even if girls like the link. Probably extra.)
Extra?!? Aw right!!
Re Indian Clubs: So is that the kettlebell’s ancestor? 😛
Here is a manly link for the manly people on Jen’s blog….it is called Battle of Nations and is a full contact medieval battle re enactment with steel swords that takes place in Europe every year. Even down to the requirement of a historical encampment…. We have a Team USA going this year…but here is the promo video to it. http://youtu.be/cJTAAV5CW2I
You can also search Battle of Nations on youtube and find all sorts of extra-ly manly fights. Like where they actually throw a log off a castle wall into a group of guys…. The cool thing about this is it is more absurdly historical than the SCA… all the fighting kits you see are reproductions of armor and every single guy has either made it, had it made by someone they know or bought it from a reputable merchant… no modern armor hidden or otherwise.. .the real deal.
Forgive me, that was the 2010 video…here is 2012’s http://youtu.be/IdzhEBWqcWo
I suppose we should probably let the guys know that in the manly linkfest department, they’re competing against a girl with a sword? Who knows how to use it? Maybe you had thrown them off with all the Jane-ware in previous weeks. We should tread lightly lest Larry pull out all stops and inundate us with picaken pics.
Sssshhhh!
Girls with swords are hot. Just sayin’.
Well the advantage (or for some the disadvantage) is that I use said sword and shield to fight in armored medieval fighting aka “heavy fighting” in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). I use other implements in melee though (135lb gal doesn’t fair too well on a shield or a charging shield wall but I can say I’ve tried) so I may also use a 9′ spear or my favorite the crossbow with special bolts so I can shoot actual people in armor 😀
But I don’t make it look at good as this (non-sca) gal, Virginia Hankins.. First female jouster for the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Fair and also was the actress that played Joan of Arc for the Deadliest Warrior series among other incredibly cool things.
http://virginiahankins.com/
Years ago our kids would have a great week near Rock Hill at the Oratorio’s summer camp.
And like you say, we had a great time at home sleeping in their bunkbeds.
Hehe.