This year we returned to homeschooling after a much-needed hiatus. Like many families, we homeschooled during the pandemic. Like many families, we almost lost our minds. So, when we decided to homeschool again this year, I seriously questioned my sanity. Crazy? Perhaps. Hopeful? That’s what I’m going with. I have a nagging feeling that we …
Unloading my car after a trip to the local store, I noticed my five year-old son take a tin of lip balm out of his pocket. Lip balm that I’d never seen before. Oh wait, I had seen it. In a little box on the check-out counter. “Hon, where’d you get that lip balm?” He …
This story was written as a guest post for Chalice US, a Catholic charity which sponsors children and families in need throughout the world. Perhaps it’s obvious that blessings should spill from a First Communion. But our family could not have anticipated the truly grace-full story that follows. Our eldest son’s First Communion was a blessed …
