Jesus, God of my heart, come and unite me to Thyself forever.
Posted in Commitment to Loveliness on Jun 30th, 2008
I decided to participate in Emma’s Commitment to Loveliness! “This is a fun way to increase femininity and beauty in our lives each week without even trying! All you have to do is choose five things that you would like to work on or do during the week that will increase the loveliness in your [...]
Posted in Family, Icons, Parenting, Pregnancy, Saints on Jun 30th, 2008
For my birthday this year (which, incidentally, fell on Palm Sunday), my wonderful husband commissioned a friend to write on icon of my patron saint,St. Melania the Younger.
I thought I had already posted a photo of my icon, but I had not.
What do you think? My husband is the best!
Monica at Orthodox Mother’s Digest is asking for us to email or send a link to photos of our prayer corners.
Here is our Prayer Corner:
Our home doesn’t have a very good set-up for a prayer corner, so ours is at the end of our hallway. We plan on looking for this feature in our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 28th, 2008
To celebrate this Fourth of July, Adventures of an Orthodox Mom is giving away some jewelry from a hot new company called String Beans Inc. This a really nice Etsy store, where all of the jewelry is made from beans. What a neat idea!
My favorite is GGGRRREEEENNNNNNNNNNNN. I love how eco-friendly these products are. You [...]
Posted in Children on Jun 26th, 2008
I washed the floors today… and these are my daughter’s knees.
The problem: three dogs, the rain yesterday and not enough bleach to clean the floors with.
Any tips for cleaning floors OR how to keep them clean?
I’ll be back next week to share more from this interesting book. A wonderful friend is visiting from out of town to help me out while both David and I are sick and my hubby is away.
See you then!
I took David to the ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat) doctor today, and within moments the doctor could see that David needs to have his adenoids and tonsils removed.
Surgery is scheduled for August 7th in the morning. We go back to two weeks, and at that point we will find out everything about the surgery [...]
Taken from Alana
The rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
Her natural abilities are attributed to God, as are most of her accomplishments, but she is clearly proud of them. She is honest about her anger [...]
Margarita Tuchkova and the Community (continued)
In 1837, on the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, there was a service held on the spot where the battle had taken place. The tzar was present, and overcome with Margarita’s piety, asked if there was any way that he could help her. She replied that she [...]
Almost a month ago, I began reading Holy Women of Russia. But I put it down for a while and, therefore, did not continue posting about it.
I started reading the book again today and decided to finish it during the Apostles Fast. I plan to blog each day to share highlights from the sections I [...]
