tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40621619424398907832024-02-24T14:46:28.419-06:00Homeschooling Papist My blog, located mid-westerly in south central Kansas, is a resource and support for Catholic moms. Maybe getting together we can inspire someone who wants to get a fresh perspective on homeschooling. Our reasons are all very different and we often have a laundry list. Come look at the crafts, food, forgotten traditions, and the way we celebrate and help us inspire each other celebrate with our families throughout the liturgical year. Share your ideas and pictures with me! +JMJ+ Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02903678774575162651noreply@blogger.comBlogger636125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4062161942439890783.post-38872515030563837352024-01-01T21:31:00.001-06:002024-01-01T21:31:36.609-06:00Advent Candles<p style="text-align: center;"> Advent Candles</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span> </span>I am getting ready to enter into my 8th year of beekeeping. It's been pretty cold the last couple days, so we have been spending more time indoors the last two weeks. With time off school, I picked up some projects that need a longer block of time to complete. One is the load of honey I need to sell sitting in boxes on my kitchen floor! And the other is the wax that needed to be rendered. Normally I would do this in September after honey harvest. But I am swamped now with full time homeschooling 4 kids- two in high school now- and then all of them have multiple activities every night of the week. Honey harvest happened in October, and bottling in November this year. And that is because God held back bad weather for me! I really dislike doing those projects late and this was my first year letting it go that long.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7vg1bX3-lh3eWlk51nAmVJsxMWWSTCxL14yl4-YrBRAygMQuuhyhMmZBUcuaKIxju2VXou4UcHxzKcVY-wxDc-Cvas0xPXMgeIxQ88dUO9r_h1qs2aT_Iw1AQUHCk5mpTmr08-QPRwcFLjmL53iceB6DfcZHqWaIliQzu7SgjwHNpBDZaeEJ910-UrIc/s4032/hot%20bees.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7vg1bX3-lh3eWlk51nAmVJsxMWWSTCxL14yl4-YrBRAygMQuuhyhMmZBUcuaKIxju2VXou4UcHxzKcVY-wxDc-Cvas0xPXMgeIxQ88dUO9r_h1qs2aT_Iw1AQUHCk5mpTmr08-QPRwcFLjmL53iceB6DfcZHqWaIliQzu7SgjwHNpBDZaeEJ910-UrIc/s320/hot%20bees.jpeg" width="156" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(my 7 year old hive)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span> </span>I decided last year to make some 100% beeswax candles for Advent with my kids. We ended up loving them. I usually just buy the roll up ones in <a href="https://amzn.to/4aTVLin">wax sheets from Illuminated Ink</a> for my kids. I decided we just needed to try and dye our wax and get some made. I have quite a bit of it now ready for projects. So craft candle night just hit a newer legit craft candle level here. I am getting them blessed on Candlemas again. Don't forget to <a href="https://amzn.to/3S3Nz7N" target="_blank">buy your candles</a>! </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJY7_RZZq3DGPjE6Ob5GQyyo301XAuGAxNCSclgpoKXr2nE9CsyyEzQHzvJeKMZ03Znji_VOrDB-_hhyphenhyphenOs9xoOEvQXDUt2ZDHEnj33vEIJ8zAgN5kIkZOd0PekSU31qPCSwwZpAwLJXwExYL2mhXQYxMKse9UKH8V4lcDqyU4xPSCUu65L_gf7yFaJz6o/s2048/advent%20candles%202024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJY7_RZZq3DGPjE6Ob5GQyyo301XAuGAxNCSclgpoKXr2nE9CsyyEzQHzvJeKMZ03Znji_VOrDB-_hhyphenhyphenOs9xoOEvQXDUt2ZDHEnj33vEIJ8zAgN5kIkZOd0PekSU31qPCSwwZpAwLJXwExYL2mhXQYxMKse9UKH8V4lcDqyU4xPSCUu65L_gf7yFaJz6o/s320/advent%20candles%202024.jpeg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSZ-jDIvcl_RWP81o3Qtfjx4lwLdT7DQojh-qt8j9Yha02nsTztXg2h1Qagy4IhWbZGoQLbOebw32dVvzTFzyNrlK1rhMAgzNF_kBzLhG8BVY_kRjSyJqHbWu9DitFWCBoN2yzmg_5IR2ZHCRMJo8rhjNedUjSWS9nqc2v3cFJWfzouAtQr7XXCpR09U/s2048/advent%20wreath.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSZ-jDIvcl_RWP81o3Qtfjx4lwLdT7DQojh-qt8j9Yha02nsTztXg2h1Qagy4IhWbZGoQLbOebw32dVvzTFzyNrlK1rhMAgzNF_kBzLhG8BVY_kRjSyJqHbWu9DitFWCBoN2yzmg_5IR2ZHCRMJo8rhjNedUjSWS9nqc2v3cFJWfzouAtQr7XXCpR09U/w352-h264/advent%20wreath.jpeg" width="352" /></a></div><br /><div><span> </span>Pulling up pictures of my garden in spring helps with these cold days and weeks we fondly January and February..aka Suckuary. (Can't remember who came up with that- but she was right!) In Kansas we get little snow, lots of ridiculous wind and somehow still have allergies in winter. I have to start looking ahead at my gardens and bees. The bees start getting attention in March here. I check their food stores usually on a 50 degree day in mid to late January or February. Every once in awhile I find one needs a sugar board resupplied.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVpjXYGtze_jYuer5_1dMgxWgAbagxSfrYKZcuNtUcyhrVRifCTKe3VJHy-WAqxwhQseq5VRe9r2sSyrImog8sc8GDuaMYgkbZmhvie8v7mF2zadEq9y8qDmX7c5IhvImMwCn2oxDL9fq8xPGUbq5yozyBTj5rxKe1mo7NhWoiJ9-8mT3HYvTpRMYiqg/s4032/shan%20swarm.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVpjXYGtze_jYuer5_1dMgxWgAbagxSfrYKZcuNtUcyhrVRifCTKe3VJHy-WAqxwhQseq5VRe9r2sSyrImog8sc8GDuaMYgkbZmhvie8v7mF2zadEq9y8qDmX7c5IhvImMwCn2oxDL9fq8xPGUbq5yozyBTj5rxKe1mo7NhWoiJ9-8mT3HYvTpRMYiqg/s320/shan%20swarm.jpeg" width="156" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyLEtQn9Ya6VvbehHblqXwh9zfBkZrcD7-ZOlpB514QpB1WHRV7wK6HOFnyqcETMAa60PP4zK-i2y6jQYW2k5Ir7tiVR8X30D6PkN8G107Q95UaHLLQiSsVadiWIrJSonPhmumhF8OyHwpcOKaXY6RjO4xVm7X_zKiV2AAR5T-lTH14V3eyn50qEk-4YU/s4032/garden%20mary.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyLEtQn9Ya6VvbehHblqXwh9zfBkZrcD7-ZOlpB514QpB1WHRV7wK6HOFnyqcETMAa60PP4zK-i2y6jQYW2k5Ir7tiVR8X30D6PkN8G107Q95UaHLLQiSsVadiWIrJSonPhmumhF8OyHwpcOKaXY6RjO4xVm7X_zKiV2AAR5T-lTH14V3eyn50qEk-4YU/w435-h212/garden%20mary.jpeg" width="435" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaHZIRQcRk7y-2GEw7QN1AoQuUI2rbZxbiTgPpFx4acZZwLJsaQFsitoxFa8vLdGZX1EG64s6J-_LFKNS7eTY05-sMAdp8tYr6Zn2DfUGOtfJpb9WtGPsRnCxhRxpwNNfEe-LnqJ5qFNk8BusJV6JYy2HDn1xGdLQNQhEEg5_m6ZmqyNiA6hQetXIGyg/s4032/garden%20lights.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaHZIRQcRk7y-2GEw7QN1AoQuUI2rbZxbiTgPpFx4acZZwLJsaQFsitoxFa8vLdGZX1EG64s6J-_LFKNS7eTY05-sMAdp8tYr6Zn2DfUGOtfJpb9WtGPsRnCxhRxpwNNfEe-LnqJ5qFNk8BusJV6JYy2HDn1xGdLQNQhEEg5_m6ZmqyNiA6hQetXIGyg/w369-h180/garden%20lights.jpeg" width="369" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Pa2Zqb-O06xVYOYu56we3xO5vswe8_vXAYYP5loIgBMgP3VzbBoKEC7ZqAO9c8H3fAgrgm83f8Q24qXqGoWdNA4rmMxveEV2C4QYfO5nRDr7EZKTUSQb0kHrpBqr9n3VmWkH6j5KDzFAY-pZdzl3TR0q5oP2jmDb_dziA5sTElBv2BkB_Da5Rv-FFGk/s4032/bee%20garden%20night.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Pa2Zqb-O06xVYOYu56we3xO5vswe8_vXAYYP5loIgBMgP3VzbBoKEC7ZqAO9c8H3fAgrgm83f8Q24qXqGoWdNA4rmMxveEV2C4QYfO5nRDr7EZKTUSQb0kHrpBqr9n3VmWkH6j5KDzFAY-pZdzl3TR0q5oP2jmDb_dziA5sTElBv2BkB_Da5Rv-FFGk/w401-h195/bee%20garden%20night.jpeg" width="401" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span> </span>My <a href="https://amzn.to/3NOnLd0">Tasha Tudor</a> inspired gardens are always amazing the spring- May and June. Often the peonies bloom alongside the irises. The garden is heavily scented with irises though- it smells like candy between them and my milk weed plants that bloom. We like walking around the corner of my house. It's a smell I never want my kids to forget. We try to get out and pray a few rosaries every spring in the evening next to the garden.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> Hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a Blessed New Year!</span><br /></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02903678774575162651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4062161942439890783.post-25236268249180221752023-06-06T08:05:00.001-05:002024-01-01T21:32:05.136-06:00Guadalupe Quilt<p> Sorry time has gotten away from me, is there anyone left out there? I always think how 'that would make a nice blog post' ..and I don't get around to doing it. We have different seasons in life I guess, and homeschooling is more time consuming. In addition to my bees, 4h, Scouts, music, dance, trap/skeet, hunting, etc. I wanted to at least give God thanks for the overturn of Roe Vs. Wade. I grew up as a Summer of Mercy kid and remember going and praying at Tiller's abortion clinic and knowing my mom went to jail with our priest, and all the other parishioners in our church. </p><p> Recently I was luckily enough to learn to use a long arm machine at WSU's GoCreate through our 4h fiber arts club. One of the quilts my daughter and I decided to make was of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We have made two actually. I bought four panels in all since they weren't that expensive and bought the whole fabric collection that matches them. </p><p> This is a great time to show them off since Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Americas and the unborn.</p><p> I made one and my daughter made the other. My other kids have made blankets and quilts too since this spring. We finished them from beginning to end. It was all time consuming but obviously cheap because we did our own 'long-arming'. So altogether, Genna has 4 (she made almost identical barn star quilts using the Moda Love pattern and half square triangles, Guadalupe and a chicken quilt) , mom 1, Knox 1 (he modified a design he saw), Brenden 2, Zoe 1.</p><p> Pray for our country and our enemies! I have to keep telling myself this several times a day. These are weird times. 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<span style="font-size: large;">June Sacred and Immaculate Hearts and Corpus Christi.</span></div>
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So even though we had a Florida trip, geology field trips, rocket launch, million 4h projects for the county fair and CRN dance competitions and practice- to drive half way across North American for, scout camp, etc.. we managed to do a little celebrating still this summer. On our Florida trip we saw sacred art and some pretty churches.. I will post on that later.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We made a pink flamingo cake, we were going to turn it into a blue cake but I hadn't made it before and I already had the right ingredients in the pantry so we stuck with pink (it's still feminine)! Also we went to 7 PM mass, and lucky I had the feast day stuff ready to go before dinner (miracle). Grandma was at mass and so were some friends, and we invited them all over after mass at the last minute.</span></div>
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Ordinary time is such a great time to celebrate the family's favorite saints. It is something for your kids to look forward too and get excited about. My kids get geeky happy when they know a feast day party is coming up. Hope your home school year is off to a good start. We have a another one or two feasts this month we want to celebrate and hopefully I will get pictures up to help inspire everyone to keep trying to enrich your domestic church. </div>
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I haven't been able to post without getting emotional, it take a few months. But wanted to thank my mom who took immediate action to help us during our latest miscarriage. And of course 2 beautiful friends Jan and Maureen who had masses said for our baby I lost on Ash Wednesday 2019. The masses were said this May. This was our 6th baby. All our other friends and family members who prayed for us while we were in our holding stage I was about ready to lose my mind. Several good friends and family sent me cards, emails, prayer intentions, and physical sacrifices and especially our children's Godparents.</div>
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Walking into the doctor at 18 weeks and seeing him deceased on a sono was a shocker right after our whole family attended Ash Wednesday mass. "Remember man that you are dust." A perfect little baby boy, no defects, lifeless. God just called him home. As I walked out of my appointment alone-in tears obviously, there was a woman complaining wickedly about her small toddler son and her newborn and how she was going to get her tubes tied. I just wanted to barf hearing that. She was obviously stressed but hearing that was awful, but I so wanted to tell her how lucky she was to have a living baby in front of her. I called Brad once I was outside in my van, he was in shock and couldn't understand how. Then I had to tell my whole family. My mom called me later and was very upset and crying. Talking about these feelings brings back tears now. There was a turning point on the Monday following Ash Wednesday, when I woke up I felt different emotionally and physically, I even said it outloud to Brad. It was very notable. That very day I got a card from Lori in the mail saying she had done a holy hour for us, it was no doubt a small miracle. Doing stations of the cross two days after my D&C was probably the most spiritual experience I had all of Lent. The words of St. Alphonsus Liguori sunk in and stuck.</div>
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Our family waited 3 weeks to get Michael back from the hospital. We were able to hold his remains with joyful sadness- yes that's very possible! My kids all held the little bundle on the couch and fought over taking turns holding the baby. It was a very REAL experience and it was needed.<br />
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We were able to say goodbye and lay his tiny remains to rest in my grandmother's grave with the blessed ground of a Catholic cemetery with the help of Fr. Mainzer. We had peace knowing at the Resurrection my Irish grandma and Michael will be together!!<br />
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I am so grateful to our Catholic Church for providing us with the ability to lay out babies to rest and provide us with a formula for burial. This whole process cost us nothing. My cup runneth over for the generous funeral director. And again forever grateful to the supervisors at Patrol West who recognized this need for emergency bereavement without us even asking- some of them being Catholic is a tremendous help, they know when life begins. And one awesome Captain, I can't say enough good things about her, she is a wonderful Christian.</div>
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I was happy to prepare a burial first hand with Brad. He was scrambling for a suitable cedar box the night of my surgery although we ended up not bringing the baby home right away. I haven't seen that side of him before, it was actually stressful for him, we ended up with 3 in the truck. Making a burial cloth and baby blanket was good for this momma, what else could I do as a mom? I made one for a little boy obviously and just maybe made it as a 12" x 12". I was going to make him a blanket anyway. I slept with the little blankie too at night when I said my prayers. It was really hard to pray, I was exhausted too, but I was just laying awake in a restless sleep. Also the hot flashes...oh for goodness sake. It's all hormonal and eventually passes.<br />
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For the box, I couldn't find anything at all for a burial cover for such a small coffin. I made a lace like package out of the box. White seemed to be the best choice for color symbolically obviously. We brought flowers and a St. Michael card and Miraculous medal to place on top of the little cedar casket.<br />
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Many don't know I lost a baby- #5, Catherine, here at home while Brad was working, exactly a year ago in 2018, at the same time as this one, so please forgive my shortcomings as a friend, I was probably busy mentally. With the end of the school year closing in, I just had my hands full.<br />
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When I started to miscarry here at home, it started out with spotting and then full on contractions- like 'bend you over birthing'. And full onslaught of bleeding you can't leave the bathroom. I called Brad at work and he came home right away and here yet again another instance he was helpless and wanted to fix things but couldn't. It was the first experience I had seen that kind of worry on his face.<br />
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Sorry if you are squeamish, you can skip this part. But since I am a practicing pro-life Catholic mom I am not going to be shy. I dug through my toilet for remains. I wasn't about to let my baby be lost to a sewer. It was hard looking through it literally, and I probably looked like a mad woman with the blood. When your a hormonal mom this is what happens I suppose, because you love your children to the ends of the earth and back. Unfortunately I came up with nothing I could discern. I had horrible feelings over this for months and continually had to offer it up. I really hope the baby had dissolved somehow.</div>
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This lead me to a discussion with my doctor, and the need for a Catholic mom miscarriage collection kit. Its something practical and needed. I need to follow up with him and see if we can make this happen someday.</div>
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As for closure for those moms who are reading this and wondering what could you do for your baby you just miscarried outside collecting the remains if you are at home. You can see below how we prepared after my D & C. But either way please consider using the Naming and Commendation ceremony below.</div>
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The Naming and Commendation Ceremony <a href="http://www.mybrokenfiat.com/blog/order-for-the-naming-and-commendation-of-an-infant-who-died-before-birth" target="_blank">was actually formulated here in my Diocese</a>, even by a wonderful woman who is well known in our pro-life advocacy office. I wasn't able to upload the file but this link to this other blog in the link above has the pdf you can print out. It is great closure of you aren't able to go to a hospital with a general burial. [A friend of ours has done the general burial for miscarried babies at the hospital and said it's beautiful.] <br />
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But back to the naming ceremony, you can use a priest, or a lay person can do it. We asked our priest because we needed it, it wasn't something we were up to for ourselves. I had a plaque made with both babies names on it. We named Catherine at the time we miscarried but I didn't have any knowledge of the Naming and Commendation Ceremony. I had called the funeral director and spoke to him about burial at that time, but since I couldn't find anything to bury I wasn't able to follow through. Fr. Mainzer did the ceremony for both babies this time though. It gave us closure for Catherine's miscarriage.</div>
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#2 Its not 'medical waste' or just merely 'products of conception'- don't let their terminology bother you. Let them know it's a human and it's your baby. You have a right to it. You have a right to take it home.</div>
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#4 Again. Tell everyone you want the remains, ask for the chaplain to help you. Call the lab and remind them promptly the next day what you expect of the remains. Make sure you can names of people you talked to for accountability. I called 3 or 4 times and had I not, Michael would not have been back in our hands.</div>
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#6 There are coffins you can buy, but they cost quite a bit. I would look around for a keepsake box or check Hobby Lobby for a wood box. No burial mass is necessary and obviously a baptism can't take place, but you do need a name, everyone needs to be named for judgement day.<br />
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#7 Call your local Catholic cemetery and see what they do for miscarried babies. Almost all of them have a place for free burial. Ours let us put Michael in the blessed ground over my grandma.<br />
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#8 No baby is too small to bury. We are made in His image and likeness, from the moment or conception we have a soul and are given a guardian angel. We are real humans at the moment of conception, don't feel like a drama queen for emotions you are holding. And seek support where you are comfortable.<br />
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We don't know our children we miscarry like we know our live earthly children we have right now in front of us. Only a mom knows the attachment and suffering that comes from just merely knowing you are pregnant. It's not something we can translate to others. We ache to hold our babies. I had to wait patiently for 3 weeks.<br />
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There are many organizations out there who help families of miscarried babies by making the little knitted/crocheted blanket for holding and burial. One in particular is next to my daughters Irish dance studio, <a href="https://www.bridgetscradles.com/" target="_blank">Bridget's Cradles</a>. They are absolutely wonderful.<br />
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For those who have had abortions and are now regretting them and wondering what you can do to move forward and get closure and healing. There are several pro-life groups who are happy to help and support you moving forward. Sometimes it takes years for these conversions of hearts to happen, that's okay. The reality of it being a real human being inside of you is often blocked and disguised by all outside 'garbage' we hear from trusted doctors and friends or maybe close family members, social media or media in general, maybe even the father of the baby. Please seek healing! Don't live with it anymore! I really believe all sorts of mental health issues and depression stem from this and go untreated and unmentioned. Seeking forgiveness and closure is the only way.<br />
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I hope I have been a good witness to life for you, and I hope that you can find ways to help yourself through your miscarriage. Probably eventually we all know someone who has miscarried or go through one, and maybe this information can be used to help streamline phone calls and help eliminate anxiety. I hope you have a great summer! </div>
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If your kids are in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd or like Holy Heroes, they will probably enjoy these two books like mine do.</div>
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{I am sorry for the old looking posts, but I am probably going to be doing some catching up. This is one I started back in December. And I am happy to post this, because we just went through a miscarriage. Google was/is changing a bunch of stuff as of April 1st and I had to get in here see what's changed on my blog. Quite a coincidence this is sitting here waiting to be posted. I can't even remember what else was going to be written with it.}</div>
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Every year we get a favorite wine blessed on the Feast of St. John the Evangelist.</div>
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For the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a small cheese cake and strawberry jam. White tea lights symbolize the innocent lives given for the Christ child.</div>
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The most beautiful part of Advent in our domestic church is getting to do the Jesse Tree and light candles and sing right before bedtime. The last <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=958" target="_blank">few days of Advent we get to also use the O Antiphons,</a> it sort of ups the anticipation for Christmas and clues the kids in on how close we are to this huge feast day. A few years ago I made did some paper crafting with my<a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2014/12/o-antiphon-prayer-cards-for-oratory-or.html" target="_blank"> Cricut and made some O Antiphon prayer cards</a>. If you like Jesse Tree ornaments you can try making <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2017/12/o-antiphon-ornaments-for-your-jesse-tree.html" target="_blank">O Antiphon ornaments </a>as well. </div>
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The prayer cards get used differently each year around here. This year my kids decided to put the O Antiphon prayer cards right onto our Christmas tree.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"> Quae hic disponis omnia, </span><span style="line-height: 19.2px;">and order all things far and nigh;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Veni, viam prudentiae </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.2px;">to us the path of knowledge show,</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><u>December 19th <span style="line-height: 22px;">O Radix Jesse or O Root of Jesse - Prophecies from the Line of King Davi</span></u></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Although part of this isn't necessarily Nativity related- also don't forget the prophecy from Ezekiel Ch. 11- read that also, then think about about Jesus re-entering Jerusalem and the lowly creature he was on and the direction from which he came- WOW how everything ties together huh?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><u>December 23rd </u></i></b></span><b><i><u><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">O Emmanuel, it means God is with us</span></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;">Take all of the Latin Messianic Titles</span><b style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;"> and put the first letter them in order like this- ERO CRAS</b><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;">, meaning, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;"><i>"Tomorrow, I will come." </i></span></span></div>
</dd>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02903678774575162651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4062161942439890783.post-63608837468707288872018-12-14T22:26:00.001-06:002018-12-14T22:26:44.923-06:00St. Lucia morning 2018 at home and real Saffron buns<div style="text-align: center;">
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I hope you got to see our pictures from the Lucia fest in Lindsborg, KS, for the <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-saint-lucy-fest-here-in-kansas.html" target="_blank">2017</a> and <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-is-your-advent-going-st-lucia.html" target="_blank">2018</a>. After our meal in honor of <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2018/12/our-lady-of-guadalupe-2018.html" target="_blank">Our Lady of Guadalupe</a> we had a lot of prep to do for St. Lucia's feast day breakfast the next day.</div>
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We actually took the time to make <a href="https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/st_lucia_saffron_buns/" target="_blank">real Saffron buns or Lucia cat buns</a>. There are a lot of names for them. They aren't just served on Lucia's feast day, but for many different types of other special occasions in European countries. Let me tell you what I found out about Saffron. </div>
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Saffron, which comes from a certain type of Crocus called the saffron crocus, apparently is grown in Persia or somewhere else far away. {I am thinking why can't I grow them then?}</div>
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Anyway, Amazon makes it pretty affordable. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ev8Hz3" target="_blank">I bought the smallest amount (in case this failed) for around $9 here</a>. That little vial they sent me will do about 4 batches of buns I think. I only did one, it was plenty for our family of 6. </div>
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Zoe's job was to mix the sugar and cinnamon for cinnamon rolls, she worked on it for about 20 mins too, she was an excellent assistant.</div>
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See the yellow color that comes out in the milk? Back during one of the world wars, saffron got scarce and European bakers needed an alternative source for yellow food coloring.</div>
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Chop/dice up some avocados, add some corn and fresh cilantro, fresh diced/small chunks of tomatoes, diced red onion, you can add a diced bell pepper. Then add red wine vinegar and equal parts of sugar. You can decide how much you need, but It really is just a couple tablespoons and not very much, just enough to coat every thing (should be sweet not bitter). Eat it with Nacho Doritos!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us!</span></div>
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Well I hit a clearance on Tiny Saints! WHOOT! Guess what they all got!</div>
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ZOE's 3! Can you believe it?</div>
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Clearly my kids love hamming it up with their mini wine glasses?!</div>
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The freebies I got from my favorite Catholic book Store are below. The kids got the magnets for St. Nick's feast day in their goodie bags. The Guadalupe bands are for Our Lady of Guadalupe's Feast Day!</div>
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So this year (Like Brenden has done in the past) Zoe laid out two pairs of shoes on her own, and of course St. Nicholas filled them up with oranges and candy for her. She is such a sweet and trusting little thing. He couldn't disappoint her!</div>
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One of Genna's favorite Birthday week (cause literally we celebrate a whole week of birthdays, Grandma, Zoe and Genna) is to do Ginger Bread Houses. We got some sets on sale at Joan's and then used out coupons on top of it.</div>
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Our Jesse Tree- each kid has their very own set of Jesse Tree Ornaments finally! Took four swaps, but they are all there- NOW I NEED ONE!! lol!</div>
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<a href="http://wildflowersandmarbles.com/2018/11/09/advent-christmas-planner-2018-2019/?ct=t(w&m_RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)" target="_blank">Have you seen this lovely FREE planner yet? You can find it here. My lovely sister sent me this blog</a>, basically I won't have any excuses anymore for leaving something special out because I definitely can't remember it all. <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2013/12/free-book-out-of-print-christmas-to.html" target="_blank">She even references the Christmas to Candlemas book I raved about back in 2013.</a> </div>
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you can't track down your own vintage copy like mine ;)</div>
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{As for both planners, and printing them and binding...I digress- if you are interested in learning how to bind it, I have <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ee1bYx" target="_blank">The Cinch book binder.</a> </div>
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Our family loves going to carry on some cool old time traditions through Advent One of our <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-saint-lucy-fest-here-in-kansas.html" target="_blank">favorite ones is visiting Lindborg, KS</a>, for their annual St. Lucia Festival. You would think it was primarily Catholic, but it mostly takes place in the Lutheran Church there. <a href="https://homeschoolingpapist.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-saint-lucy-fest-here-in-kansas.html" target="_blank">We attended last year for the first time.</a> It probably will not ever be skipped at all from here on out for fear of a riot from my kids who enjoy themselves a lot. It happens every second weekend of December each year. IT always falls right around Genna's birthday, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception :) This year my sister and her friends met with us there. We even randomly ran into 3 other friends from Wichita, including a family from St. Jude we are in Lego Robotics with.</div>
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I updated my mini vestment post so you can see our finished ones if you like.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02903678774575162651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4062161942439890783.post-30669727440520226532018-11-24T01:13:00.000-06:002018-12-12T13:02:30.542-06:00Miniature vestments for your domestic church.<div style="text-align: center;">
Those cute little vestments for prayer tables and home oratories are all over the blogosphere. I keep saying to myself..'yea I will get to them some day.' Well my oldest is 10, and I am at the realization he has maybe 8 years left under our roof, and time is counting down quicker than I realize. I feel small panic attacks coming when I think how fast time has gone. Any-who.. so that helped motivate me to get this done by Advent. Here is what I got done so far.</div>
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I need some embellishments on them still, but that a trip to the store I think- since I dug through my supplies and didnt find much gold ribbon.</div>
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Anyway, a lot of people refer to them as Fr. Pine or Fr. Oak's vestments, but all I have is the <a href="https://amzn.to/2r3ewLh" target="_blank">wood</a> cross from Amazon. There are several plain Jane ones and even some on Ebay. If you have a lot of kids you may need more than one set. I think my 4 will have to share. I am not that great at embroidary and these little embroidared pieces were already something I completed but was not sure what to do with. Kids enjoy something new and this maybe something you can do with them for Advent. Cutting out the felt fiddlebacks took about 10 minutes. And you can be as simple as plain felt like mine, but skip the embellishments, or use glitter glue and ribbon and decorate them. The felt comes in little sheets in the craft department at Walmart.</div>
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Went to Walmart found some ribbon, used some super glue. Super glue stinks on polyester fabric, but I dislike waiting around. Maybe some spray glue would work well.</div>
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We enjoyed a small feast with homemade apple pie and cider and scones to celebrate the patronage of St. Margaret of Scotland and St. Elizabeth of Hungary this weekend. (Digressing, Hungary grows lots of apples- randomly figured that out after picking the feast day foods. So in the end it was fitting).</div>
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This small rose bush is from Genna's First Communion. We have managed to keep it alive! We bring it in every winter. We had quite enough snow last week to kill everything off, so its cool to see it blooming at the moment. Zoe had one from her Baptism but it died, so maybe for her and Brenden I will get some mini rose bushes for their sacraments eventually too. Wished I would have done it for Knox.</div>
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We found some wonderful inspiration from many Catholic blogs online. We also saved our seeds, and I will let you know how they taste, we are trying a cinnamon recipe.</div>
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Our parish had their trunk or treat tonight, we brought our All Saints Day games and set up behind the van with our friends, the kids all pitched and helped run games and gave out prizes. There is a lot of opportunity to spread the truth about All Hallows, and that Halloween really does belong to the Church. Its such a secularized holiday now which makes it complicated. But don't give up on your kids and give in, these are some of the holiest days of the year! If you need help check out <a href="https://www.looktohimandberadiant.com/2013/10/finding-truth-in-halloween.html?m=1" target="_blank">Look at him and be radiant. </a> There are also plenty of other places to read up on why Catholics should dress up and participate, and carving pumpkins and turnips! It's in our European Catholic roots! Take back the holiday! Do it with class and without glorfying the gore. We want to honor the dead and the saints in heaven, not make it dehumanizing and disrespectful to our dead brothers and sisters in Christ.</div>
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The games went well, we had plenty of relgious prizes and candy!</div>
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Genna and I went to Saturday 4:30 pm mass while we were in Ohio, that happened to be the Arch Diocese's Cathedral, St. Peter in Chains. I was really surprised at the low attendance for that mass, about 35 people maybe. Anyway, the mosaic was huge and impressive! We were translating the Latin and seeing the patterns we learned since school started..like drop the 're' add a 'ba' etc. And then we got asked to take up the offertory gifts! Very blessed to assist in the mass in that form.</div>
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And more Latin the back below the choir loft. We looked around at all the art and symbolism- which is always a lot of fun before walking back to our hotel. We had a Panera up the street and that became our dinner stop as there really wasn't much else except a Rosconi's pizza and bar, which was good, but not as healthy ;)</div>
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We were above almost everything in our hotel. It was quite a pretty view as the sun came up in the morning with the grey misty fog and the rolling hills. It's not as pretty in full daylight and the big hills aren't distinct at all. The fog would roll between the hills and the depth between the land features was easy to recognize. Plus the trees there are actually changing color, more than the ones here at home. Thank you, Lord, for delivering us safely to our destinations. Amen.</div>
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On the feast of the Holy Angels the kids listen to <a href="https://librivox.org/wopsy-the-adventures-of-a-guardian-angel-by-gerard-f-scriven/" target="_blank">Wopsy the Angel audio book</a> and/or we read the extended stories from volumes 21 up and in the Catholic Children's Treasure box series. Zoe likes to say Wopsy is her guardian angel...so darn cute! Usually by then I can't really make more desserts, although angel food cake would be fun! But then we move on to St. Francis! This was a fun morning, Genna and I were leaving for Cincinnati, Ohio, for CRN regionals. And because of the way the driving works out, we left late in the morning. We had time to make the wolf paw cookies and birds nests and chocolate covered strawberries for the family and cousins.</div>
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My mom was around thankfully to watch the kids and help my husband out with the mental and logistical support while Genna and I were gone. The boys took our supplies over for a Divine Mercy cake and celebrated St. Faustina's feast day on Friday there at Grandma's house. She was so busy she forgot the picture!</div>
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Genna had a wonderful time in Cincinnati. She was so easy to travel with, and we really missed our family, that was a mental sacrifice giving the reigns over to someone else. Her purpose was to qualify for CRN nationals, and she did it! Only her second time in a feis- her first one was the local one here in town.</div>
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Our littlest one has a second name of Therese, and gives us even more of an excuse to celebrate yet one more day in early October! We had a feast day party for Zoe Therese (who is also named after St. Catherine Laboure). She thought it was like a the biggest thing and like a birthday party. She pulled her special chair around to the end of the table and pushed daddy's chair to her spot because that's where you would sit if you was a birthday right? So she had this all figured out on her own.</div>
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Genna did a great job prepping our food (again)! It's so nice not to have to do everything alone now. Yes- we still had cupcakes left over. You just graze all week on sweets pretty much...the kids can put away a lot of food really, they are always starving!</div>
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The few last days of September and first part of October make for some easy feasting ideas. There are always more cupcakes and cake mix than needed for St. Michael's feast day alone, so you turn the extras into a lion cake for the following day for St. Jerome's legend with the lion.</div>
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Genna and Knox worked out the lion between themselves. We actually had a 4h geology field trip that day and our feast day cupcakes and cake were already done from the evening before.</div>
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<a href="http://www.thethirstingcatholic.com/music?mc_cid=212a643b61&mc_eid=60956cdfee" target="_blank">Best feast day song ever #3 (and skip on down to Holy Angels), I love Catholic Rock. Swriously support these guys, I love them, there is my free plug!</a> Get your self some Thirsting cds! </div>
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And now back to our feasting..why we feast, our patron saint of our homeschool and of Knox.</div>
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We are very thankful to have such wonderul and gentle pet chickens, but even more grateful that they did so well at the Kansas State Fair.</div>
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Knox had one bird win the Reserve Grand Champion of the whole junior show (2nd place in whole state), that bird got grand champion (first) in the large fowl class. </div>
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He happened to also take the reserve champion (second place) in the same large fowl class on another bird. It was so exciting! Genna's birds did place higher at the county fair than Knox's but she was too young this year to go to the state fair. We hope next year she and her brother both have some birds to take to the fair.</div>
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Ironically, we didn't take the birds with us initially, we were already set against taking them to the fair, due to a few misunderstandings. Once we dropped his other 6 projects off though and strolled over to the poultry barn, we found out he had about 4 hours still to get his 6 birds in by the deadline that evening. So we went home and scrubbed them clean in the rain and took them back with a half hour to spare. It truly was God's providence! </div>
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We have a lot of saint feast days this coming week that we celebrate, and can't wait for all the fun! St. Michael is our school's patron saint and is tomorrow. Zoe's 2nd patron saint, St. Therese, is one, and St. Francis's feast day is around the corner. His statue guards the north end of our home. Have a great and blessed weekend! </div>
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It's Monarch butterfly season here in North America. One of our favorite things to do is help tag and release the butterflies we rear and catch wild. Anyone can do this... you can <a href="https://monarchwatch.org/blog/" target="_blank">watch the roost map</a> and see how soon they will be in your area. Have you <a href="https://www.monarchwatch.org/" target="_blank">tags ordered ahead of time </a>and in hand, because you never know when a roost will show up nearby. You can tell if the monarchs are just recently hatched by the condition of their wings. If they look like they are battered, chances are they came down from the north, up in Canada. If they are pretty and in good shape, probably hatched locally. Prioritize tagging the battered ones first as they are definitely heading to Mexico. The others may just end up hanging around here.</div>
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It's also a milkweed caterpillar, looks very similar to a monarch, but varies slightly in coloration and the extra horn. We had around 55 Monarch cats, about 95% of them died from fly maggots. The ones that didn't die we tagged and released. Hopefully someone finds one someday!</div>
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Finally Brad found a Polyphemus moth caterpillar two days ago crawling on our grass towards the shed. He always finds the polycats, I don't know how.</div>
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Within an hour of bringing the caterpillar in, I released it on an oak branch into the aquarium where all our Monarchs had been (they all hatched as of 2 days ago too) And it immediately went and formed a cocoon and pupated inside a milkweed leaf. I couldn't believe how lucky we were to catch one in it's last instar. You see these hatch 2x a year, but the huge green cats are hard to miss, they are about 3 inches long, they are harmless too and can be handled carefully to not injure them.</div>
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So since that one will be overwintering it will be next April or June when it finally hatches and we find out if it was a male or female, so oh boy, we get to keep the pupae safe for the next 8 months..lol. </div>
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Our 4h geology leaders take us to some amazing places to collect. A lot of trips are made onto private land. This past summer we were fortunate enough to visit a cow pasture north of Eureka, KS, with a small and beautiful waterfall. It was June, and very very and dry and hot, no wind..typical Kansas.</div>
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The leaders told us there would be a waterfall with trilobites possibly in the shale..we didn't find any unfortunately, however, instead we got cooled off from the .75 mile walk into the pasture. In true Kansas fashion (land locked) we made the best of the heat by cooling off. Yup there were cows around somewhere and I am sure that water had plenty of microbes. It came down from Sinclair lake and had a huge and wide gully with small canyon walls of shale. There were fossils everywhere. </div>
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Annnnd...since we were in Eureka, KS. We stopped at one our favorite waterfalls at Eureka City Lake (we happened to be on our last stop of the day and it was on the road back to Eureka- qe passed it going to the other stop too). Last time we visited it maybe Knox was 4, so its been a few years. But it is never seems to be dry.</div>
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See the upper falls? Someday when the kids are bigger we will get around to exploring up there. SADLY, a few weeks after this trip Eureka got wiped by a tornado, they have been hit very hard this summer. Hope the town recovers soon!</div>
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We dropped the boys and dad off in Abilene, KS in June for cubscout camp. We decided to go up that morning early to take in the old mill waterfall and see a little bit of President Eisenhower's home town and memorial. Good thing we did, Knox's group happened to be running behind anyway, so we used our time well!</div>
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