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On Becoming A Family
I don’t have many words this week. But I want to share this with you. … read on
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And Joy, Again
We are laying low today. Babe and I are enjoying a quiet recovery day while Taylor studies au cafe.… read on
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Thursday Things I Love
pat-a-pat-pat (telling me she wants to be picked up)
foo-foo-foo (whispered when she’s hungry)… read on
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Today Is Monday, Again
The days just keep coming. One by one they tick away.… read on
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The Obligatory Resolutions Post
Do these make sense to you? I think I mostly know what I mean as I list them here. We shall see.… read on
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Take on Hope
My mother always told me: “Praise the Lord! Even through gritted teeth.” And no one describes better than Tolkien the grim resolution to continue on the way… read on
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Anticipation
Sitting in the sunny window seat of a cafe last week, glancing outside between sips of my cappuccino and notes to my husband on chat, I saw a young man hanging around in front of the cafe. … read on
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Marry for Love
“Very few people ever state properly the strong argument in favour of marrying for love or against marrying for money.… read on
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a word from Balthasar:
It is possible for us to hear the word of God because God’s world is open to us. Most Christians do not realize that this is by no means a matter of course, but a miracle of the Father’s utterly free love. Every day it should astonish us anew, just as a lover is transported in bliss through the answering love of the woman he loves.… read on
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Two as One
Being apart from Taylor has made me realize how much a part of me he is. I am more than just Anne with him; my identity seems prone to shifting without his anchoring presence near me.
It’s not that I forget that I am a wife, but without one’s husband… read on
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Not As the World Gives
Mass this Sunday was my first of the summer without Taylor. Last week we were in California together. The week before, Seattle. It was a strange feeling, surrounded by people but sitting by myself. … read on
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Everybody
Oh, Pandora. You slay me with your Pink Martini station. Have a listen with me this evening:
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Kindred
When I first discovered Ashley Rodriguez through her blog, her then-current post was a recipe for bacon caramels. I instantly fell in love. … read on
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An Invitation
Welcome.
For renidemus is, first and foremost, an invitation. An invitation to sit down with me, to read what I can offer you, and to offer your thoughts in return.… read on
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In This House of Brede
“Even at Vespers in these days Abbess Catherine, as if echoing the abbot’s words, thought, as the antiphon to the Magnificat was sung, of the Visitation, when the Virgin Mary, with the angel’s announcement beating in her heart, had gone “in haste,” as St. Luke says, to visit her far older cousin. … read on
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God has created…
a world big enough for all the lives He wishes to be born. It is only our hearts that are not big enough to want them and accept them…… read on
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More Than Goodbye
It was so much more than simply saying goodbye to my husband for a few days, or a week, or several. It was more than knowing I would be facing an empty house coming home from work, or going to bed alone every night.… read on
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Mourning
The other day, I read a post by a recently-delivered mama of twins. [Please read it, it's wonderful!] While her boys are mostly healthy, they were born a bit premature, and so they had to spend some time in the NICU, which is always hard for parents. And not less so “just” because their babies aren’t severely sick.
Her experience with her twin boys really resonated with me. In my struggle with infertility, and now with a lengthy and drawn-out and unpredictable adoption experience, I feel a growing sense of loss.… read on
