Life in Every Limb

Catholic Heritage

Catholic Heritage

by | Sep 26, 2017 | Catholicism, Everyday Ediths, family, FIRE, The South

“Blood is thicker than water,” was one of my maternal grandmother’s favorite sayings.  Family was everything to her.  She was extremely proud of her Southern and Irish roots, and often shared tales—possibly apocryphal—of the family history.  We are blessed to have...
Fall Break in Kentucky

Fall Break in Kentucky

by | Jul 29, 2017 | family, Vacations

Would you believe until last year I had never spent a night in Kentucky?  I’ve driven through it on the way to points North, unsurprisingly, but somehow went almost 50 years without vacationing in a state I can drive to in an hour. We remedied that last October...
Minnesota Memories

Minnesota Memories

by | Jul 22, 2017 | family, Vacations

By the time this is published it will have been almost a year since our week in Minnesota–St. Paul, to be exact–where we stayed with our friends Renee and Erik and their daughter, Mikaela. Some background:  Renee and I were roommates all four years in...
Keeping Kids Catholic

Keeping Kids Catholic

by | Jul 18, 2017 | Catholicism, family, Parenting

When I was a little girl, I hated going to Mass. My father wasn’t Catholic, and we all know how hard it is to take little kids to Mass.  So for the first six years of my life, I mostly stayed home on Sundays with Daddy.  Sometimes we’d drop my mother off...
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