Sun-Beams is usually a collection of links to stories, articles, photos, or videos I have come across that I believe will inspire, inform, or encourage you, as well as my favorite photo posted on my other blog, Violet Film, from the past week. I’m still posting today, but in keeping with my declaration that I was… Read More
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Seven Snippets: Recreating Childhood Photos, Introversion, and…Nuns a Cure for Insomnia?
— 1 — Remember last week I told you how I discovered that Mother Angelica and the nuns of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery (OLAM) saying the rosary put Nathan to sleep for his afternoon nap? Well, we visited OLAM and the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament on Monday and,as it turns out, the… Read More
Two Things I’m Thankful For
The kids are out of school so we headed to north Alabama for a few days (sans Mr. Andi) to visit my mom, stepdad, sister, and her family. She has three little ones so it was a bit chaotic, but I lugged my camera bag up there and snapped a few photos. I’m taking a… Read More
Sun-Beams: November 24, 2013
Sun-Beams is a collection of links to stories, articles, photos, or videos I have come across that I believe will inspire, inform, or encourage you, as well as my favorite photo posted on my other blog, Violet Film, from the past week. Boy with Down’s syndrome duet with Darius Rucker is a knockout – Have you… Read More
Seven Snippets: 70 Degrees with Snow, Wheeled Convoys, and Mr. Andi’s Real Name
— 1 — It only took me a year, but I figured out a way to get Nathan to fall asleep at nap time in 20 minutes or less: Mother Angelica and the Nuns of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery. I have DVR’d the EWTN show of them saying the rosary and I turn… Read More
Headlines, Clichés, and Getting More Than You Can Handle
I traveled to Indianapolis this weekend, flying up on Friday evening and back on Sunday with lots of meeting in between. Weekends like these always wear me out, and worrying about the enormous weather front I was trying to escape made it a little more stressful than usual. I decided on Monday morning after I… Read More