Mid-May update:
Latin Happiness. At CatholicMom.com: In which I explain how I went over to the dark side and paid for flashcards, AND monkey-themed Latin-Lite videos. Also found some other digital person to teach grown-up Latin to the boy and I, and no surprise, all are happier for it.
Shiny happy feeling inside this author: The reprint is at Catholic Lane. (Yay!)
A well-licked baby rat is a happy baby rat. SuperHusband & I have been taking Family Honor’s summer course on Catholic Sex-Ed. (It’s not called that. “Cultural Implications” or something like that.) Astute observers would have predicted: I’m really enjoying the class, whenever I set aside my natural dread of deadlines and obligations, and sit down to do the work.
Double-enjoying it once I realized I didn’t have to sit still and listen to the lectures, because hey, long stretchy headphone cords . . . I can workout while I listen. Score one for online courses.
Right now I’m reading this, of which you can download the executive summary at no charge:
Encouragement for those of us who sometimes doubt whether all this parenting effort is going to have any effect in the long run.
Forming Intentional Questions. The other reason I’m hiding from the internet is to churn out a set of discussion questions for Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples. Because I’m going to be part of a book club. And so are you. Bwahahaha . . . more news soon. Questions are written, and now need to be purged of typos.
Have a great week.
I’m pretty sure that when I was pondering a book club this afternoon, it was for my local friends. But if you say it’s a book club with you about discipleship, I will have to take your word for it. 😉
Oh, this should be for your local friends AND your internet friends. Very versatile.
Weirdly, though it’s a Catholic book for sure, having just re-read it, I’d feel pretty comfortable recommending it to you as a general discussion of evangelization and stuff. Because it’s a good book. And I suppose also an eye-opener on Everything You Always Suspected About Those Catholics Down the Street, But Were Too Polite to Say in Mixed Company. With the caveat that you’ll find out what it is evangelicals are doing right, and Catholics are doing wrong, that makes Catholics walk away from the Church (as I insist on calling it, hehe 🙂 and go join their local evangelical congregation. I’m wiling to take that risk.
Re: Falling off the internet… may I introduce a cute burrowing animal, the striped gopher…. as seen on my latest work trip. 😉 Yeah it’s a stretch but oh look he’s so cute. https://picasaweb.google.com/102888817504252516459/IctidomysTridecemlineatusStripedGopher?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Book club? Im still trying to find time to read the Matteo book… college classes are almost done but that swimming pool we just set up in the backyard, for the boys, is kinda tempting.
Oooh – striped gopher. Cool. I’d never seen one before.
(Re: Book: Yes. You’re excused from this one for the moment. But I’ll totally let you be my guinea pig for training me how to LISTEN and SHUT UP and JUST LISTEN when people want to talk about their relationship with God. Because you know my shut-up-n-listen skills are woefully deficient. Because it turns out that Encountering Loudmouths [me] is not one of those things that’s real helpful. Who knew.)