Controlled Chaos – Page 22

The First Kiss

Just like the very first kiss, our first kiss was a bit of a mess. I have no excuse. I mean I had done this before. It was her first kiss but I had done this before. I should have been able to handle it. But that was the thing.

How Beautiful You Are

Today as I was leaving the store I heard a mother tell her daughter, who was working on hiding her face, one of those phrases I think we all heard as we were growing up.

One day you will realize how beautiful you are.

A Work in Progress

So back on topic. One of the reasons that I have not been posting a lot here lately is that I have been doing a lot of other writing. I might notice that my writing tacker has not updated in a while, and that is because I am afraid to go in there an put in that long string of zeros before I picked up my pen again. But I will hear shortly (Maybe.)

A Fitness Update

If you have been watching my updates on Facebook, you will probably notice that I have been all over the map this summer, first with increasingly longer and faster runs and then, a sudden drop, back to it again, and then another drop off. I can answer the question of why the sudden drops with one word, “Injuries.”

Why I keep Writing But I Won’t do NaNoWriMo

I am much more balanced with my writing and the rest of my life, and at this point I just don’t think that I can do NaNoWriMo this year. Maybe not ever again. But for all you NaNo’s out there, I wish you the best. I will cheer you on from the sidelines. And I will keep plugging away at my writing.

What the Pope Said

All three of the last three popes had different styles. Pope John Paul II helped bring the teaching of the Church to Her members. Pope Benedict XIV was an academic and he helped us to understand why the things that Pope John Paul II showed us were true, by digging into the history and doctrine of the church. Pope Francis builds on both of these by taking what both of them have done and showing us how to apply it to our lives.

Sometimes Home Schooling Looks Like This

As home schoolers we have kind of a slightly different view of the beginning of the school year. First, there really is never aq beginning or ending because we are always doing at least some schooling all year round, but there is a ramp up in September and a ramp down sometime in May. AsContinueContinue reading “Sometimes Home Schooling Looks Like This”

MileStones

It is not every day that you get to celebrate a major milestone in your life, but for me today is one of those days.

What we have Learned Today

Whenever I have an experience like I did this morning, The Vegitales song pops in my head.

Some Thoughts about NFP from an NFP teacher

I could talk a lot here about how NFP is not “Catholic Birth Control,” and how what we teach encourages couple to be open to life, but first of all that kind of sounds like sour grapes even to me, and second of all that is not what I want to talk about. Besides you have probably heard all of that before.