About Us

My name is Heather and I have been the help meet to my wonderful husband, Len, for 20 years. Our children are Hope (17), Lenny (14), Lily (9), Wren (Born to heaven, 10/02), Mary (Born to heaven, 9/03), Lucy (Born to heaven, Early '04), and Peter (5). Five doggies round out our happy brood.

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Morning Basket

Image of The Wheel on the School

Image of Saints for Young Readers for Every Day, Vol. 1: January-June

Image of The New Saint Joseph First Communion Catechism

Image of A Child's Garden of Verses

Image of Romeo and Juliet

On the Nightstand

Image of The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life

Image of The Magic of Ordinary Days

Image of Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way

Repost: In Honor of Valentine's Day: Now That's Romantic

(Originally posted Feb. 2007)

After reading Mary Ellen’s post on romance and after receiving an encouraging email from Margaret, I have decided to chime in on the topic of romance. It has taken me many years to shed my teenage ideas about romance developed largely by movies I can’t believe my parents ever let me watch. [...]

We Have a Special Visitor...

We are so blessed to belong to a wonderful Catholic home-school group.  And our fearless leader, Alice Gunther,  manages by the grace of God (and I’m sure much prayer) to keep us (over 100 families) together.  Alice has been kind enough to share her beautiful statue of the Blessed Mother.  Our Lady is [...]

Fluffy White Cuteness

The smallest members of our doggy tribe received a much overdue grooming yesterday…

Game Recommendation: Dinner Games

We had gotten in the terrible habit around here of NOT eating together at the table for most meals.  It happened slowly with differing schedules, etc.  Even when we were sitting together for dinner, it was brief and not very social.  Well on a lark, I got “Dinner Games” for Lily for Christmas.  It was [...]

Book Recommendation: I Love to Draw Horses by Jennifer Lipsey

I picked this book up for Lily (9) at the library.  She has derived many hours of pleasure from this book and is reluctantly returning it to library after multiple renewals.  We are anxiously awaiting the arrival (via interlibrary loan) of other drawing books in this series.  I highly recommend this book for your budding [...]

Gratituesday: A Patient Husband

When I think about all the things I am thankful for in my life, my wonderfully patient husband usually comes to mind first.  I am not a naturally good housekeeper, cook, wife, or helpmeet.  Left to my nature, I am not sweet, energetic, or cheerful.  I have worked hard at improving in these areas over [...]

Our Morning Basket

Well it has taken us a while to get back into our routine after the holidays.  It’s been a particularly slow go due to illness.  But inspired by Mary Ellen’s posts (here and here) that I had saved in Bloglines, we are back into our “morning basket routine”.  This routine includes reading aloud [...]

A Weekend Adventure

Last weekend we spent a WONDERFUL weekend with our “Pondered in My Heart” friends in PA.  Kimberlee did a great job of chronicling our adventures (in film-making, eating, singing around the piano, and more eating…).  I’ll just add a few pictures… 

Kateri joins in on the musical fun…

Beware of [...]

Jumping into Advent… a bit late

I’ll admit it.  I tend to have an “all or nothing” personality.  So when Advent started on Sunday and I hadn’t gotten my rear in gear, I figured, “Ah well, there’s always next year!!!”  Well a well-timed email from a blessed friend and mentor encouraged me to jump into Advent.  She, of course, didn’t know [...]

‘Tis the Season of Coveting

Lately my four year old Peter has taken up a new hobby – catalog coveting.  With the Christmas season nearly upon us (at least for the retailers), he can be often found sitting in a chair “reading” a Lego or toy catalog uttering phrases akin to “Can you get me this for my birthday?”  or “Can [...]