Lenten Watchfires is a Lenten series based on the Beatitudes and the lives of the saints following the delightful picture book Rejoice and Be Glad! If you missed the previous installments you can find them here: Saint Francis of Assisi,Saint Peter, Saint Juan Diego, Saint Benedict, Saint Faustina. This week we have two little known…
Lenten Watchfires is a Lenten series based on the Beatitudes and the lives of the saints following the delightful picture book Rejoice and Be Glad! If you missed the previous installments you can find them here:Saint Francis of Assisi,Saint Peter, Saint Juan Diego, Saint Benedict. This week we will journey with Saint Faustina Kowalska and…
Lenten Watchfires is a Lenten series based on the Beatitudes and the lives of the saints following the delightful picture book Rejoice and Be Glad! If you missed the first installments you can find them here: Saint Francis of Assisi,Saint Peter, Saint Juan Diego. This week we will journey with Saint Benedict of Nursia, the…
Lenten Watchfires is a Lenten series based on the Beatitudes and the lives of the saints following the delightful picture book Rejoice and Be Glad! If you missed the first installments you can find them here: Saint Francis of Assisi,Saint Peter. Today we encounter Saint Juan Diego, a humble Native American who was given the…
This week we will travel with Saint Peter, the head of the Apostles and the first Pope. What a great lenten companion Saint Peter will be! I have always found him so human and relatable, he is always putting his foot in it so to speak and brings me great consolation that there is hope…
Lent is upon us and I wanted to deep dive into the Beatitudes with my family. We will be using the beautiful book Rejoice and Be Glad! Living the Beatitudes by Rachel and Ted Schluenderfritz along with different picture books for each Beatitude. This will be a weekly post throughout Lent visiting with a Beatitude…
If you have been around a little while, you will know how excited I am about this month’s Picture Book Exploration: The Secrets of Tutankhamun: Egypt’s Boy King and His Incredible Tomb, by Patricia Cleveland-Peck, illustrated by Isabel Greenberg. As an archaeologist by education, Tutankhamun’s tomb always sends tingles of excitement down my spine, no…
REMINDER: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE GIVEAWAY! Scroll to end of the post to enter the giveaway. Last week we visited the excellent book All About Lent and Holy Week by Katherine Bogner, illustrated by Shari Van Vranken. Today, Katherine Bogner joins us for a few more advice and recommendations on how to…
Since we are on a nature kick lately, I wanted to share one more resource that will encompass Nature Walk, Nature Study and Nature Journaling: the Phenology Wheel! This is such an amazing nature observation tool and it can be created in so many different mediums that it will appeal to one and all. It…
Who else dreads Lent? It’s not the fasting, it might be the weather and time of year, but mainly it is making this time of penance come alive for my children. It is so easy to throw a party for a feast day or a solemnity and to bring the saint or the solemnity to…
