I love these skirts!

The Modest Mom has some great skirts! Love a couple of their new ones...Check out the Rainbow Striped Denimn Skirt and the Women's Flowing Long Black Skirt. http://http://themodestmom.com/category_12/Womens-Skirts.htm They are definately on my wish list! Just need a job or to win at the St. Helena 4th of July raffle tonight :o) If you live in Northeast Nebraska come on over to St. Helena, NE for the BEST fireworks in the country...and believe me I've seen some good ones :o) They are up close & personal & AWESOME! But check out these skirts too! LOL

AWESOME Bible Coloring Sheets

With Holy Week coming up, you will want to check out the "Jesus, the Christ" section of this website for great coloring sheets! Then look through all of the other wonderful Bible coloring sheets they offer as well. They are great even for older children because there is a lot of detail. Beautiful pictures! Thank you Catholic Icing for sharing this link! http://http://www.tne.net.au/~abdaacts/cbible.html If you like what you see on my blog, please follow me :o) Blessings, Ladybug

Happy Birthday Mary!

September 8th is the Blessed Mother's Birthday. Celebrate by having a birthday party for her...play birthday party games, bake & decorate a cake (with blue frosting of course!) & sing Happy Birthday to Mary, attend Mass, sing Marian hymns, pray the Rosary as a family. Try this craft while praying a decade of the Rosary with young children (you can vary the difficultly depending on the ages of your children): trace & cut out 10 flower petals, a center circle, a stem, and 2 leaves. While praying the Our Father, have your child glue the stem on to a piece of construction paper. Have your child glue on one flower petal for each Hail Mary as it is prayed. While praying the Glory Be, glue on a leaf. While praying the Fatima Decade prayer, glue on the other leaf. If your child is older, let them trace & cut the pieces as well as glue them while the prayers are being prayed. Then you have a lovely flower for Mary :o)

July - Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus

July is the Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus. Each month has a dedication & I will try to post some activities for each month. My files are all at school, so in the summer those activities will usually be limited to what's in my head (not much! LOL) and what I have found online. I have always been a little jealous of the people who have a rich heritage & hold onto it & have traditions they still practice...and one day I realized I DO have that heritage...my Catholic faith! One way we can pass that faith on to our children and make them LOVE it is to celebrate the liturgical seasons of the Church year. You can find out more about the Liturgical Seasons here: http://www.wf-f.org/LiturgicalCalendar-info.html and here: http://thankevann.com/homeschoolgoodies/?page_id=48

And now on to the Month of the Precious Blood...

The picture is one I took of the heart my niece made using a heart mold to make a heart out of Jello and then added drops of blood, also with Jello. You could also make finger jello & cut out hearts with a cookie cutter or knife and use the leftover pieces in the pan to make drops of blood.

Learn to draw a chalice and grapes:

http://www.chcweb.com/catalog/files/htdpb.pdf

Sacred Heart Color Sheet:

http://www.sjtbre.org/docs/Sacred%20Heart.pdf

Here is a beautiful prayer, as you can see they put it on a drop-shaped piece of red cardstock:

http://starrymantle.blogspot.com/2008/07/july-month-of-precious-blood.html

Have fun!