by Leslie Sholly | Mar 23, 2013 | Parenting, rants, teenagers
Most of the time five kids doesn’t seem like a lot to me, it just seems normal. Â I can blithely respond to that ubiquitous comment, “I don’t know how you do it!” with “Oh, after three it’s not any harder, just louder,” and...
by Leslie Sholly | Dec 5, 2012 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts
Did y’all ever think about how WEIRD Christmas is? Â I don’t mean what we are celebrating, of course–I know you know that. Â Maybe what I really should be asking is did y’all ever think about how weird communal traditions are in general, or if...
by Leslie Sholly | Dec 3, 2012 | Catholicism, family
And one last link on the Advent Workshop, this one from the Knoxville News Sentinel. Â William was quoted in this story! Â Can you tell I really, really liked the Advent Workshop? Â So much so that I never missed one, even though one year that meant I showed up with a...
by Leslie Sholly | Dec 3, 2012 | Catholicism, family, FIRE
Last year getting ready for Christmas was . . . strange. Â And maybe I will write more about that letter. Â But reading this guest post I did last year brings it all back. Â Go read it while you are waiting for new content! Share this:TweetShare on...
by Leslie Sholly | Dec 3, 2012 | Catholicism
. . . because NaBloPoMo is over, and I did it!  One post every day for a month.  Now it turns out they have a monthly version of it now, and maybe it will be a good thing to do in January, but December is busy enough. I’m going to start off the month, though,...