So, we had a bit of a production delay ;-) and thus have a combined Lent/Easter edition of...
Today I chat about my Triduum, 2018 edition, Henry and the marathon altar serving, and the poignancy of the Easter vigil mass. Join me!
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Happy Easter everybody! How was your Triduum and Easter weekend? I'd love to hear from you!
I get all into liturgy nerd mode on our late-Lent edition of:
I wax nostalgic a bit today about my cradle Catholic years with Lent and Easter, but having never experienced the Triduum liturgies until just a few years ago. We linger over Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil, and the meaning behind those liturgies. To be continued last week since I got so into this!
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What are your experiences with the Holy Week liturgies? Did you participate in them as a child, or only as an adult like me? I would love to hear from you!
We've come to the end of the 4th week of Lent, and another Lenten edition of...
Today we wrap up the final installment in our sub-series on the 3 pillars of Lent, and discuss almsgiving! This includes giving of our time, talent and treasure, particularly during the Lenten season. I manage to weave in introvertism and an upcoming Catholic Mom book club. ;-) I hope you'll join me!
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We're in the middle of a short series this Lent, as we podcast our way through to Holy Week...
I'm in the middle of a trio of episodes on the 3 pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Our episode today focuses on fasting. How does this work in the daily life of your average married, work outside of the home mom, who is all rushy rushy on a regular basis? We reflect a bit on how fasting involves more that just abstaining from food between meals. Join me!
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We're going to start examining the 3 pillars of Lent, horray! Join me for another special Lenten edition of:
We're talking Lenten pillars for the next 3 weeks, and today we're starting with prayer. Scripture, prayer postures, structured vs. more informal prayer, we cover it all!
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I'm back with another short episode of the Tea Time podcast for the first full week of Lent!
Today we chat about Lenten resolutions. What are mine? How are they going? What are yours? Is it possible to get back on the bandwagon after falling off? I'd love to hear from you!
*I said Magnificat Advent Companion in the recording, when I obviously meant the Magnificat Lenten Companion!
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Hey looky, a SURPRISE! I was inspired this week, and so have the first episode in a Lenten series to share with you:
These are going to be *short*, 9ish minute vignettes that I share each Friday during Lent on a Lenten theme or my own Lenten experience. This week I talk about Ash Wednesday, and my attitude of starting Lent off strong. I hope that you'll join me!
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How was your Ash Wednesday, dear listener? I'd love to hear from you!
Wow, that went fast! It's our final episode for Advent 2017!
Today I gab about the missing 4th Sunday of Advent :0, how it's suddenly a dance gig bonanza for New Year's Eve, and of course the conclusion of our Advent 2017 Book Club!
From the author's website, here is some fantastic information about the order of books in the series:
The
Elm Creek Quilts novels are a series of books written by Jennifer
Chiaverini. The series includes twenty novels, one short story available
as a e-book, and a reader's guide:
The Quilter's Apprentice (1999)
Round Robin (2000)
The Cross-Country Quilters (2001)
The Runaway Quilt (2002)
The Quilter's Legacy (2003)
The Master Quilter (2004)
The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005)
The Christmas Quilt (2005)
Circle of Quilters (2006)
The Quilter's Homecoming (2007)
The New Year's Quilt (2007)
The Winding Ways Quilt (2008)
The Quilter's Kitchen (2008)
The Lost Quilter (2009)
A Quilter's Holiday (2009)
The Aloha Quilt (2010)
The Union Quilters (Feb 2011)
The Wedding Quilt (Nov 2011)
Sonoma Rose (Feb 2012)
The Giving Quilt (Oct 2012)
An Elm Creek Quilts Companion (Oct 2013)
The Quilter's Ghost: An eShort Story (Oct 2015)
In most of the books, the main character is a master quilter named
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson. She and her young friend Sarah McClure open a
quilters' retreat at Sylvia's family estate, Elm Creek Manor. Sarah and
Sylvia run the "quilt camp" with the help of their friends, the Elm
Creek Quilters. Other books are historical, featuring Sylvia's ancestors
and earlier residents of the Elm Creek Valley.
If
you want to read the books in the order I wrote them, read them in the
order listed above. However, since I wasn't planning to write a series, I
have written each book so that it stands alone. On my book tour, I
often hear longtime fans tell new readers that the books should be read
in the order I wrote them, but other readers have told me that they have
read the books out of order and were able to follow everything just
fine. Ultimately it's up to the individual reader. Please note, however,
that later books inevitably give away events that occurred in previous
books. If you would like to read the books in something approximating
chronological order, please note the following:
The Christmas Quilt takes place in the interim between The Quilter's Apprentice and Round Robin.
The Sugar Camp Quilt is set in 1849-1850, so it takes place before the events chronicled in Gerda's memoir in The Runaway Quilt.
The Quilter's Homecoming is set mainly in 1925, but it branches off from a storyline introduced in The Christmas Quilt.
The New Year's Quilt immediately follows The Quilter's Legacy.
The Lost Quilter begins in 1859 immediately following the events chronicled in Gerda's memoir in The Runaway Quilt.
A Quilter's Holiday takes place while Bonnie is in Hawaii in The Aloha Quilt.
The Union Quilters begins in 1861 and runs mostly concurrently with The Lost Quilter.
The Wedding Quilt takes place after A Quilter's Holiday and The Aloha Quilt, with flash forwards to the year 2028.
Sonoma Rose is set in the Prohibition era immediately following the events of The Quilter's Homecoming.
The Giving Quilt takes place when Sarah McClure's twins are four and a half years old.
Whoa. Now I *really* want to go back and read the entire series! Next week we finish up and read Chapters 4 and 5! Let me know your thoughts on Chapter 3 below, or over in the thread on our Facebook group!
Virtual high five everybody! I'm back for a second week in our Advent Tea Time series!
Today in What's Happening, I talk about Christmas gift buying progress (*snort* it's not going all that well), and lots of dance news. We review the Blessed is She Advent Journal, before moving into our book club chat for chapter 2 of The Christmas Quilt! I thought this chapter was much more emotional than chapter 1.
Book Club schedule (next week we are reading Chapter 3, which is a bit longer than the previous chapters).
The Quilter's Homecoming (Elm Creek Quilts Book 10, this is the installment with Elizabeth's story after she moves to California with her new husband).
Anne at The Nutcracker:
How is your Advent going, dear ones?! Christmas shopping? Please do share thoughts on Chapter 2 of The Christmas Quilt, and I'll have the post up in the Facebook group as well momentarily!
Well HELLO there! I feel like it's been awhile, though it's not like I've been away from the blog for any length of time. :0 But Tea Time is back in it's seasonal format, and here we are at episode 1 for Advent 2015!
*streamers*
Today we talk about the format for Tea Time going forward and the seasonal way it will be produced for the foreseeable future (lots of catching up and what's happening, a Catholic tidbit, and then seasonal specials), before moving into our Advent Book Club! Horray! There will be a new Tea Time each week for the next 4 weeks.
CAVEAT: The audio quality this week is very poor, I'm so sorry about that! Being out of practice, I did not properly record the audio while I recorded live, and thus had to go back and capture it from the video, which leads to ca ca in terms of audio. It's something at least for those of you who prefer to listen rather than watch the video. There are also a couple of wonky spots where I had to edit out notification noises that I did not anticipate. *collapses* Next week, I will be back in the groove, I promise!
It's no mystery, I just discuss it in a lot more depth in the podcast itself: Tea Time is moving to a seasonal format. I will need to take short hiatuses throughout the year, and this made sense to me to break it up into seasons such that the podcast will STAY a weekly podcast when it is running. The alternative was to have it go to bimonthly or monthly, which just didn't seem to fit with the theme of the show very well. The show will return for a late Ordinary Time/Advent season in early November. Until then, I chat about all of the changes, and my fun plans for the blog AND podcast in this new seasonal structure. Join me, and chime in with your ideas!
I would REALLY love for you all to join us over at the Facebook group! There are 15 of us in there now, and I am finding it such a solace. So, do tell: what do you think of the seasonal format? What do you think about the Advent book club being a part of the podcast? I'd love to hear from you!
Today I talk more about my spiritual crisis relating to my job, how I am managing it, and why the podcast may not be weekly anymore. :-\ But hope springs eternal, and I have ideas for other ways we can connect during the week and offer each other prayer support. Join me!
Prayer Corner - The rosary. I am currently obsessed with my St. Teresa of Calcutta rosary. :) Allison's rosary shop, if you'd like to message her to request a custom St. Teresa rosary!
Creative Commons - I finished the Rhinebeck sweater!
Not the greatest photos, but I'll have Mike get a good one of me wearing it after it's blocked! For the time being, the front:
the back:
and cable detailing on the back:
OK, let me hear from you! What are your thoughts with dealing with spiritual crises, and not overdoing things? Do you have ideas for an online chat place we can all hang out and ask for prayers?
TGIF everyone, and BOY do I really mean it this week :0 for a new installment of:
Today we talk about the back to teaching grind, how the 30 day prayer challenge is going, lots of creativity flowing, and bunches more. Join me! (I even look exhausted in this screenshot, don't I? :0)
Prayer Corner - I've been working on praying at least 1 office of the Liturgy of the Hours each day with my Divine Office app.
Creative Commons - I'm on the 2nd sleeve of my Rhinebeck sweater! But also, aBeachcomber Shawl in a fall-inspired colorway. This is the yarn base I'm using, though the colorways I chose are no longer available. It's *divine*, and the dyer is incredibly talented!
How is your prayer life these days? What is your back-to-school season like? I'd love to hear from you!
Today I talk about the semester starting, and how I'm finding it just a wee bit stressful. Prayer strategies, more dance gigs, fun books coming out this fall, and more!
Creative Commons - I started the sleeves on my Rhinebeck sweater! It's a miracle!
Are you going to pray along for the prayer challenge? Have any new book recommendations? Planning for Advent already the way that I am? ;-) Do write in!
It's an organization-focused episode this week of:
Had a little bit of a technical mishap today, and the audio didn't record on my video. 😡 So no video this week, but I do have the separate audio for the podcast feed, so that's all we have this week, sorry about that! I put lipstick on and everything. :0
This week we talk about strategies for evading that sense of being overwhelmed as we segue into Back-to-School season full force!
Prayer Corner: St. Monica novena starts Friday 8/18, sponsored by Pray More Novenas. You can now also sign up for Facebook Messenger notifications by following the directions in this post!
Creative Commons: The Rhinebeck Sweater continues to grow. :0 I'll have a photo as soon as I join the back and can try it on!
What's going on with you this weekend, dear listener? What are your ideas for feeling less overwhelmed?
Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to our early August edition of:
Today I address the EPIC dancing weekend I had, more about performance jitters, a new trilogy from my favorite secular author who specializes in suspense set in Montana, the joy of Morning Offering prayers, and the Downton Abbey shawl is coming along!
Creative Commons: The Downton Abbey shawl I will be gifting is coming right along!
Needs lots of blocking when it's done, but coming along nicely!
What have you been working on this summer? Are you looking forward to back-to-school season? Any Advent book club suggestions? I'd love to hear from you!
Original finished shawl (colorway is the discontinued Hayride):
Newly started shawl in different colorway for Irena (colorway is Big Top):
What's going on with you this weekend? What do you think of my book club ideas? Do you have a book suggestion for our Advent book club? Please write in!
Hello everyone, and welcome to a St. Kateri themed edition of:
Today I include the first installment in our Church Triumphant series: St. Kateri Tekakwitha! I also update you all on my summer dancing nerves and foibles, planning for fall teaching, kid updates, and summer family fun. Join me!
