Mandi over at Catholic Newlywed had her little baby! Head over and check out her beautiful little girl!

Today is Caecilia’s Baptism Day! We celebrate them pretty big here. I am making her a saint coloring book for a gift and for dinner she is getting her favorite, Chicken nuggets and french fries. I will probably make Coleslaw too. She has candy from yesterday to feast on for dessert.

Well, what do you know, the Faceparents (uh, myself and Joshua) got it together to have things ready for St. Nicholas Day before we went to bed last night. We hung stockings filled with a bit of candy (even for Benedict) and a small toy or game for each of them. We woke up early this morning to make breakfast so we could enjoy it as a family. We made pancakes and served them with fresh applesauce and whipped cream.  I made a pot of Mystic Monk Coffee and had a mug of it with half and half then topped it with whipped cream. I was in heaven. (No I was not counting calories)

The kids slept until close to 730, Joshua had to go up and wake three of them up to come and eat. My kids are usually the ones up at 702 and ready for breakfast. Karol was the first to spy the stockings and they were very excited to dig in to them, even Benedict. After breakfast and schoolwork, Karol asked to listen to some music, so I put on some Sandra Boynton and Veggie Tales and the kids have been dancing all morning and now afternoon.

Tonight is baked potato soup and garlic toast (if I get up and bake the bread).

 

Happy Feast Day!

Don’t forget to enter the Christmas Card Giveaway, entries close at 9:00 pm Eastern Time tonight!

 

 

I just added Betty Beguiles to my side bar, under the category of Fashion + Modesty.  She is also holding a contest to win an item from DownEast Basics, go check it out!

 

**PS, don’t forget about the Christmas Card giveaway here!**

 

 **Winner Announcement!**

At 9 pm last night, I closed comments then printed them off. I cut each of them out and put them in a bowl. The bowl sat next to me for a while as I did some work, mostly because I was procrastinating picking a winner, I wanted ALL of you to win. In the end I had Joshua pull the name and he picked

(drum roll please!)

Anne!

Congratulations!

For the rest of you all (who commented!), I have a special deal, you can order anything from the Impressus Art page* for 20% off. Keep in mind that shipping is included in all the prices. To get the discount, please email me your order at catholicmumma at gmail dot net and I will let you know how to pay and your total!

(*Joshua is working on getting a discount code for our Cafe.press store)

 

You may or may not know that my husband, Joshua, in addition to all the things he does has a graphic design business,  Impressus Art*.  Joshua has very generously allowed me to hold a Christmas Card giveaway. The winner of the giveaway will win 50 Christmas Cards (your pick, they can all be the same or mix and match)

Here are the details:

1.  Click here to view the different designs.

2. To enter, leave a comment in the combox (be sure to leave contact information so I can get a hold of you).

3.  For a second entry, share this post with someone else and leave a second comment to let me know you did.

4.  The giveaway will be held open until December 6 at 9:00 pm (Eastern Time).

5.  The winners will be announced and contacted on December 7.

 

Thank you and Happy Advent!

 

*Feel free to click around his site and look at the things he has to offer.*

 

 

 

 

This year we are going to grill our turkey bird, what are you experimenting with this year?

In your charity, would be so kind as to offer prayers for my friend’s grandmother who passes away last evening, her name was Mary.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

* I asked you all how your parish is handling the New Translation (coming soon and very soon!) but I didn’t tell you how mine was handling it. Our pastor and deacon have been giving a series of homilies on the New Translation and what it means, why it’s being done and what else we can expect. I have to say that they have been more than informative, and thankfully my children have been pretty well behaved during Mass the homily as of late, I have heard most of them. I am very much looking forward to November 27th!

* It is 828 in the morning, 45 degrees outside, heading for a high of 66 today. Just so you know, Wednesday it was 84 and muggy. Today is certainly sweater  weather. MyChia (as our sweet Caecilia calls herself) is still sleeping, highly unusual. The other three are playing in the toy room and no one has asked me for food. This is a most unusual morning.

* Tonight we are meeting Joshua in town to go grocery shopping. Our local Publix store is having  an awesome sale on butter and flour. Usually butter is $4.00/lb and flour is $2.50 or more for five pounds. This week butter is 2/$4 and flour is $1.99 a bag. In addition to the other bogo deals, this should be a fruitful shopping trip. The only thing we cannot buy there is meat, because it is so expensive there, so  stop at the Piggly Wiggly or Harveys will be in order.

* I have a little part time (from home) job that I started at the beginning of the month. One of the things I do is read various diocesan newspapers for activities to post to various social networking sites. It is really a lot of fun and I get paid to surf the ‘net. However last night, I noticed something disturbing in one paper I was reading. The amount of Christmas happening during Advent. “Christmas Comes to X Parish” is the title of one of the Christmas concerts happening in early December. What?! We have 12 wonderful days of Christmas where (at least in my experience) parishes seldom do anything, but hey let’s cram it all in during Advent.

* Yesterday I logged in to bank where our mortgage is held to see where to send our tax bill to when I saw that we were past due. Huh? I will say that when I sent our payment (electronically) I only sent $100 (for some reason, not sure why, no our mortgage isn’t $1000) but realized by error two days later and sent the rest (electrically). The second payment posted on the 3rd and our payments are due the 1st. However, there isn’t a late fee until the 16th of the month for late payments. So I called to ask what in the world was going on. Turns out that if you send a payment for less than the amount due, they hold it without applying it because they have no idea what to do with it. So when I sent the difference to make the payment the full amount, nothing happened. The woman on the phone said she would have to email someone and get it taken care of. What? You can’t just fix that? So, here it is, the next day, almost 24 hours later and nothing has been done yet.

I asked her about the late fee and she said, because I had never been late on a payment before, they will waive it. I wanted to say “Well, since I wasn’t late this time, it shouldn’t be there at all.” but knowing what the big bad banks can do to my mortgage and my credit, I nicely said “Thank you.” Anyone want to guess on how long it will take to get things fixed up?

* MyChia just arrived downstairs, so I must sign off! Have a great day.  Oh, before I forget, I am doing a Christmas card give away pretty soon, stay tuned for details!