At Considerable Cost

This year, I was able to attend the annual Our Lady's Mother's Day brunch at our church.   The past few years, I've either had a nursing baby or we've been out of town.   It's such a nice event.    Ladies host tables; each table is beautifully decorated around the theme of one of the titles of Mary. The guest speaker was Jennifer Fulwiler , a former atheist who converted to Catholicism.   She blogs at Conversion Diary and for the National Catholic Register .   It was a beautiful, moving talk; there's no way I can begin to summarize it.   This is the link for Jennifer's post where she wrote about the story she shared with us.   Few dry eyes in the room as she finished.   It was humbling and she had to have been led by the Holy Spirit as she spoke to us.   It was refreshing--spiritually, mentally, emotionally-- to spend such a beautiful morning with wonderful women.   I'm so glad I was ...

Since my last posts, here's a little of what's been happening... A Victorian Tea with friends.   Next year--period costumes! I was grateful to co-host a baby shower for a sweet friend who has since given birth to a beautiful baby girl.   Mary's beautiful cupcakes.   They were more amzaing in that they were dairy- and egg-free, but still decadent.   That's culinary talent! Our guest of honor, Becca, opening gifts with a happy big brother! This year, the days leading up to Thanksgiving were about PIE.  It was my first year to make and sell pies out of my new kitchen and I was anxious to see how I would handle the switch from two wall ovens to one range oven.   It worked out great and I was able to make twenty-four pies--homemade crust and fillings--in my oven.   Actually, I think I was more organized this way.   In the past, I could have two separate ovens going at different temperatures, so I w...