Well, it took a year, but Tomie DePaola wrote back to us!! ( Read about our fan mail here! )  Ok, *wrote* might be a little misleading - wh...

... that's what the kids are calling the Red Tailed Hawk we keep spotting in our neighborhood.  We saw it for the first time last Wedne...

So far, we've been having the kind of Advent I'd been hoping for... lots of singing and prayer without pressure; a messy house that...

I've tried to hold off on doing this, but resistance is futile.  I'm jumping on the Catholic mom blog bandwagon and posting our fav...