String o' Pearls

I'm on a roll here, feeling exceedingly nostalgic about my childhood and getting a bit teary-eyed over grainy little snapshots from the ...

Yesterday, on Mother's Day, four of our beloved grandchildren made their First Holy Communion together at an 11:30 Mass: son #4's tr...

In my last post , I showed you a colored pencil drawing that I'd made for the wife of son #5 as a belated birthday gift. That's just...

A while back, my daughter-in-law (wife of son #5) showed me an old photo of the firstborn of her two little girls with one of the cats they ...

Yes, this is my Easter post.  And I'm a little late, I know—but what else is new when it comes to me and updating this blog?!  I think i...

I’m on Substack now, and I recently saw a great post on my feed by one of the people I follow there (because her thoughts on homemaking and ...

Hello there, dear readers, and God bless you! I meant to post something about our St. Patty's Day party two weeks ago, and also about th...