When I first became Orthodox, there seemed to be a lot of emphasis on extending grace to children and including them in the Church at their own level. Certain factions always grumbled about this, though, and they usually seemed to be wealthier people who had contributed to the parish for a long time and wanted things to be “nice” for their worship experience in return. No bothersome children, please. Now I feel as if the institutional church in general is currently swinging toward more strictness. Perhaps the recession has given… Read more A Note on Children in Church →
Ian brims with ideas of late. Recently during a particularly stressful few days I was having trouble lactating. Naturally the baby was crying more than usual, poor thing. As Ian… Read more The Pains and Pleasures of Motherhood →
I’m always trying to think of ways to contact and minister to the inner city folk, without hosting Operation This-Time-We’re-Hip-Enough or whatever. What are we, after all, if we can’t help the worst off ones? It struck me that we might hold events in which Priests bless inner-city children. We could let mothers know that they can bring their children to be blessed at a certain time and place. And women and priests can be there, maybe some fathers since most of these kids don’t have any. And the children… Read more A Quick Idea →
My dear readers, Forgive the incoherence that follows; hopefully it explains itself. We celebrated Epiphany a day early for various reasons. I botched the early part of the Liturgy; all… Read more Exhaustion, Grace, Sons, and Chanting…Not Necessarily In That Order →
Our son, whom I call Johnny on this blog, just turned two. His dad, tired of elderly ladies mistaking Johnny for a little girl because of his glorious blond curls,… Read more “Johnny” Turns Two →
Here’s Nicole Hoelscher Harms’ full story of a Chiropractor solving colic. Nicole is a friend and a published author of articles. I would only add that if you are taking your child to the chiropractor it’s well to find one who has some training on the gentler techniques needed for children. The last few days have been rough. From dinner until she finally collapsed from exhaustion at around 11 each night, Megan has been awake, screaming, and obviously in pain. Nothing is more difficult and emotionally draining for a mommy than… Read more Babies Going to the Chiropractor →
I suppose that all natural human loves can be images of and partakers in Divine Love. It’s only just come to me how a parents’ love really does so. In… Read more Love of Child →
For kid-friendly egg recipe scroll to the bottom of the post. I continue to be amazed by the search phrases that bring people to my blog. Just to reassure everyone, there’s no indication who made the search or where they were coming from, at least not that I know how to or care how to find. Last time I wrote about the amusing search “mean poems to say to enemies” and obligingly put up a few. Since then not a day goes by when I don’t get three or four… Read more Google Searches that Brought Me Readers II: Getting Kids to Eat Eggs →
Slow Literature 