Lily Maiden

I'm home...but just for one day. :) We pulled in only a few hours ago from a wonderful 4 days at the 2006 Couple to Couple League Family...

The first time I've been able to post while away from home. :) So while you and I thought I wouldn't be back here for a week (maybe ...

with my family on vacation for the next week. In the meantime you will all be in my prayers. And a note from Claire's secretary (aka: si...

Few youth have had the chance I had last week: to enjoy real dancing. Not hip-swaying, body jiggling, or head jerking. Real wholesome, enjoy...

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a disease a...

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." (William Shakespeare) Thank you, Daddy, for knowing me so well! God bless all our ...

Graduation was beautiful. Not so much an end, but more so a beginning. My education is not over...it's just beginning another chapter. I...

I will be taking a break from blogging for the next week as I try to finish sewing a dress for my graduation. Adieu till then...

Our mock-orange bush, which has barely shown more than a dozen blossoms at once in the 17 years we have lived in our home, surprised us by b...

"...highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and tha...

Guest Blog by Sarah Halbur, Written 05/04/06 This past weekend, my family and I attended an event in Chicago. It was a “dressy” occasion, as...

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - e...

My family just came off of organizing the 2006 Illinois Catholic Homeschool Conference and Vendor Fair. All I can say is...God is good. I co...

Have you remembered that we are still celebrating the Easter Season? Of course, we celebrate the amazing event of our Lord's triumph ove...

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and st...

I posted the following as a comment in the discussion going on at Catholic Mother Danielle Bean's blog about dress for Mass: How many o...

Conserve on pride; Be liberal with humility. Conserve on anger; Be liberal with gentleness. Conserve on selfishness; Be liberal with generos...

When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will ...

So many of the best things in life truly are free. Like a walk in the country...with a sea of blue sky and rolling fields all around you, ge...

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." Everlasting Man, 1925 "Fallacies do not ce...