Welcome to my weekly Sunday Tuesday post, Daybook Online Journal. This is a post where I gather all the ordinary things that happen or are happening in my day to day. Things like what I’m reading or listening to…eating and cleaning and learning…These are the small moments that make up my blessed daily life; and I want to remember them. If you blog, please link up below with your Daybook Online Journal post. If you don’t have a blog, no worries, just leave your “post” in the comments. You can use my prompts or make up your own to include items important to you; mine change depending on season and circumstance.
Daybook Online Journal: Let the Fun Begin
Thanking God for…
I am thanking God for the wisdom, counsel and discernment of Chris. I am thanking God for this busy life that pulls me in 8 different directions for 8 different people and yet each night almost all of us are still able to gather in the living room for family rosary.
Praying…
I am praying so very hard for my children and our family as a whole. Sunday after Communion I poured my heart to the Lord and I was encouraged that although things may seem confusing and hard, we are a family striving to live in the state of grace…He loves us…He loves my children more than I do…He sees my heart and knows my fears…
Pondering…
Listening to…
Right now the older children are working on school, the younger kids are out back playing and I’m listening to Compass
Reading…
Teaching in Your Tiara: A Homeschooling Book for the rest of Us
Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year
Preparing for Adolescence: A Planning Guide for Parents
Bible Journaling…
I have not spent time Bible journaling the past week. Life is moving very fast right now with end of school, soccer tournaments and games, piano recital, Chris traveling, Alpaca shearing, gardening, chickens, cows, mowing…
Around the House…
My grandparents recently moved into a long care facility and my uncles graciously packed up bags and bags of canned food from their house to give to us. We now need to sort through them all and decide what we will use and then donate the rest to Catholic Charities. We are cleaning and prepping the farm for shearing this week. It used to be a much bigger deal than it is now. We used to have a large party…100+ people and tents…now it is a handful of friends, but the preparation of the animals and barns remains the same. And then the usual Spring activities that take me away from the inside of the house…gardening and mowing…yet the inside continues with dishes and laundry. Life is full and good.
In the Kitchen…
We seem to be running here and there and eating basically the same thing over and over. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not?
Our Domestic Church…
Finishing up preparing Maximilian for First Holy Communion and Confirmation. I would put that child up against most other children or adults to test his readiness for the sacraments. His memorization is incredible and his comprehension is edifying in his examples to explain what he is learning.
I am a strong proponent for early Confirmation for a couple of reasons. First, the definition of a sacrament–a sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace–my children, our children, need ALL avenues of grace open and available to them now…not later. Second, and along the same lines, the definition of Confirmation–the sacrament through which the Holy Ghost comes to us in a special way to enable us to profess our faith as strong and perfect Christians and soldiers of Jesus Christ–my children are asked about their faith now…not when they become teens. My children are asked on the soccer fields NOW what their scapular is, why they can’t miss Mass on Sundays or Holy Days. My children are told now Catholic are not Christians. They need that outpouring of grace to profess their Catholic faith NOW and to be an active part of the Church Militant as soldiers on the front lines…the grocery store, the soccer fields, the family reunion…
Captured…
Moving Cows
has not been a good thing for me? Oh I have? Then carry on; I would hate to repeat myself when it comes to my sleep changes, brain fog, and roller coaster like blood sugar.
and do our memory work first thing every morning. Our memory work includes scripture, prayers and catechism questions. Maybe I’ll do a post about our memory work specifically.
by Shawn McDonald
, but you could also just use a yellow highlighter or crayon. I glued a white gift tag down (honestly–because I messed up underneath it), and printed the verse I was pondering. I added a small strip of Washi tape in a gold arrow design and stamped a set of baby feet/foot print at the top of the page. See, 
with my girlies on Saturday
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