Super Easy Handmade Headbands and Hair Clips

It's not really a secret that I love embellished headbands. I wear them as an accessory way more than jewelry. This month my friend, who typically does the craft at my mom's group, had a baby! So... I jumped on the opportunity to be in charge of the craft, basically because it's been a dream of mine to craft my own headbands and this gave me a budget...

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Catholic Perspective on Love Wins by Rob Bell -- Part 2 Heaven

Note: I'm currently reading Rob Bell's new and extremely popular book Love Wins. I will be posting reviews on various sections of the book as I read them while giving a Catholic perspective to the questions he poses.  Other posts on Love Wins:  Intro Part 1--On Salvation Part 3 -- On Hell Chapter 2 is called Here is the New There. ...

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Catholic Perspective on Love Wins by Rob Bell -- Part 1 on Chapter 1

Note: I'm currently reading Rob Bell's new and extremely popular book Love Wins. I will be posting reviews on various sections of the book as I read them while giving a Catholic perspective to the questions he poses. Other Posts on Love Wins: Intro Part 2 -- On Heaven Part 3 -- On Hell As I mentioned before, both Rob Bell and this book are...

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Catholic Perspective on Love Wins by Rob Bell -- Intro

I (Kevin) just started reading Rob Bell's Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. I thought I would blog about a few of the chapters as a way to shed some light on the book from a Catholic perspective. The book itself is widely popular. To give some credence to this, see this link about his blowing...

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St. Joseph's Altar Symbols and their Meaning

The Solemnity of St. Joseph is one of our favorite liturgical days to celebrate. Between our love of the Saint himself and the fact that it interrupts Lent by ceasing all fasting, makes this feast day an easy winner. We began hosting an annual party to celebrate with friends and are in the midst of preparing the house and altar for 40 guests...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

The kids are holding the snakes they made this morning, I'll explain later. We started off the day in traditional Cotter fashion, as in Kevin did this as a little boy, with green pancakes and milk. Because Kevin is a pancake master he made them in the shape of shamrocks.  The leprechaun says "Top o' the mornin' to ya", the flowers...

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The Emotionally Faithful Wife Audio Talk

A few weeks ago for my mom's group at church I gave a talk on being an emotionally faithful wife. I have been speaking on emotional chastity or emotional purity to singles for over 2 years, but have never applied the principles to the married life until now. If you have never thought about the need to be not just physically faithful, but also emotionally faithful in your marriage, this talk is for you (and even if you have, I still say give it a...

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What we're doing for Lent

In case you have been wondering where we've been, we have decided to begin our Lenten sacrifices early... okay it's actually been forced upon us. Sometimes when you have kids they get sick, that's where we've been. What we are actually doing is one thing from each of the three big types of Lenten penances: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. So...

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Crepes for Mardi Gras

Crepes are a traditional treat for both Mardi Gras and The Feast of the Presentation, or Candlemas. Up until recently I was intimidated by crepes and I'm not really sure why, they are just thin pancakes. Maybe it's because they are a French food and thanks to Julie Child I think that any food that comes from France must be beyond my culinary skills....

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