Life of a Catholic Librarian

Hello friends and happy Friday! I've had a lovely week, and I'm definitely feeling perkier and perkier as the summer progresses. I h...

Hello all and happy Friday! We're enjoying the start to the summer over here in the home of the Catholic Librarian. The kids are nearly ...

Hello all and happy Friday! I've had a week full of actual STUFF, shocking, I know. :-0 And I thought I would fill you in. Grab your cof...

Hello friends, and welcome back! I'm a little bit emotional this week, and I just need to chat about life in general, so let's settl...

You know how it goes. You have a picture in your mind of what it will be like to summer with your school aged children: You will cavor...

Happy long holiday weekend (?!) to my fellow American readers! Independence Day falls oddly this year, does it not? It fell on a Wednesday, ...

Summer means a few things for me, though really, for everybody. Thing #1 is that routines change. The mornings with the kids bear no resembl...

Hey all! Happy End of May to all of you. I'm pretty sad to see May go, frankly, it's one of my favorite months of the entire year, c...

Hello all, and welcome to a jam packed edition of: Today I talk about July novenas, my summer knit-along progress and holiday crafting l...

Another odd combination, to be sure, but you're used to that around here. ;-) Part of the issue is that I'm so heavily enmeshed in s...

Happy Monday everybody! Despite it being a Monday morning, I am in an inordinately good mood. Why is that, you ask? Well, I've been doin...

Good afternoon to you all! It's an absolutely gorgeous day here. I was once again able to walk out of the house wearing only a cardiga...

Oy. :) This was a bit of a long weekend. Why, you reasonably ask? Well, there's a lot going on right now between work getting busier f...

The summer is quiet on the reference desk, and so I thought to myself as I was preparing to go down for a shift: "What do I need to...

I used to love the pool, I really did. When I was a kid, I loved swimming, and going underwater especially. I swam as frequently as I was ab...

...and feeling very patriotic about the whole thing. *beams* Traditionally, summer isn't my favorite time of year, because I just don...

Ah, the past few days have been overcast and breezy. I love this kind of weather. Clearly, I should be living in the Pacific Northwest. Th...

I know that much of the country has been experiencing drought conditions this summer, and western New York is no exception. "It looks...

Bet you missed me. ;-) And so I return from my long weekend home. And doing so makes me appreciate my wonderful husband all the more. Our ch...