Baby Wipes Piggy Bank

Empty baby wipes make a great piggy bank. The hole in the middle is perfect for dropping coins into. It is sturdy, it can hold $75.00 worth of coins. One of the best parts is that my kids would never think to look in an old baby wipe container and so my coins are safe from little pilferers!
Thanks to Womens Day for this great tip!

Amazing Grace at the Coliseum

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552717/bctid1913313052

these guys have beautiful voices, and they are good looking also. Follow the link, I promise it will be worth it!

Christy

(I labelled this youtube, but it really isn't - it is just so I don't loose it in the blog)

Baby Stephen

His name is baby Stephen. He is 11 months old. He has leukemia. He is not doing well. He needs a miracle. Please please please pray for my great - nephew.

Thank you for your kindness.

Christy

Sunday Loophole

I wonder how many Catholics use what we refer to in my family as the Sunday Loophole during Lent? You know, you gave up chocolate or coffee or soda or some such thing but because Sunday is a feast day - a day in which many religious communities eat a little better - no fasting or abstaining on feast days - you go ahead and eat a weeks worth of chocolate, a 2 liter of soda, a pot of coffee - all beginning at 12:01am and ending at 11:59pm.
yea it is a loophole
yea we use it
yea it makes giving some things up bearable.
My kids are gonna have a much harder time becoming saints if we keep teaching them the "loopholes!"
So, if you saw I was on facebook and accepted some friend requests you now know why!
Hoping the rest of your lent is blessed.
Christy

Charity, Justice

When you are dealing with problems, try not to exaggerate justice to the point of forgetting charity.
St. Josemaria Escrva, from his book Furrow # 973

Because this song makes me smile.

Abbey-Roads: Fr. Groeschel consoles the Legion of Christ

Abbey-Roads: Fr. Groeschel consoles the Legion of Christ