It’s the last month of the year, and the last post in my family traditions series! This one is probably going to be the longest, but with less family updates.( I’ll save those for a future post.) December is busy! Not only are we trying to get ready for Christmas, but we’re doing Advent things,…
Another month has wrapped up so it’s time to sit back, reflect, and record all the things our family tends to do during the month of November. (Since Advent starts in December this year, I’m going to share all our Advent traditions in my December Family Traditions post.) Month of the Holy Souls For many…
Remember how I mentioned I was feeling much better and thanked everyone for their prayers? Well that all changed early in October. Unfortunately, I started experiencing new complications from the procedure I had back in July and felt like garbage for most of the month. I had another procedure done last week and I’ve been…
Homeschooling is going well so far, but that means everything else has fallen off my radar. When I do have free time, I’m still struggling to figure out what to do with myself. But, I’ve been down this road before. Right now, I’ve been busy with “special projects” and I’m hopeful that once I cross…
August was so busy this year, I couldn’t even get my family traditions post up in time! But, now that we’ve wrapped up our final summer trip (a Labor Day excursion to Cleveland), I’m hoping to settle into a fall routine and catch up on some writing. So how do we usually spend August? Spinal…
Most of our family’s July traditions can be summed up in one word: beach. Though it’s much less a tradition now than it used to be. Since our move to our new house, we’ve created some new traditions, but otherwise, July is quiet; no birthdays, anniversaries, or school events. At the old house, it should’ve…
Summer time! It’s unbearably hot and I love it! Give me June heat waves over January snow ANY TIME. This month usually goes by way too fast. Time for a run down of our family’s June traditions. At least one affiliate link below. Month of the Sacred Heart Again, like many feasts/ months I mention,…
Time to sneak another family traditions post in under the wire! May is usually a busy month despite our lack of birthdays or anniversaries and “year end” school activities. (School wraps up in June around here; as homeschoolers and public schoolers. For that reason, I will add ‘Graduations’ to next month since that’s when we’ve…
Combining a general update with some traditions. Since its within the Octave of Easter, I don’t feel like I’m too far behind in giving an Easter update. An update on everything else…well, I’m definitely behind there. Easter I’d picked Byron up on Holy Saturday around 8:30 a.m. for a 36 hour visit. He had to…
Just a reminder to take my reader survey! I promise the link works! It’s time for my third Family Traditions post! I’m really enjoying writing these up as doing so leads me down rabbit holes of old posts and events I’d forgotten about. And in the research, I’ve come across posts to add to previous…
As someone who abhors winter, February is always the longest month of the year. When everyone was little and homeschooled, February was the month when we all wanted to give up. It always seems more fitting to me when Ash Wednesday falls early in February so that Lent and the dreariness of the month occur…
In my ongoing desire to catalogue and organize a bunch of stuff I decided to do regular posts that record all (most? some?) of the traditions our family does each month, or season. Most will be liturgical stuff, some things will probably overlap with the online cookbook posts, and some will be collections of archive…