Ideas for October Feast Days and Celebrations

I've gathered most of my liturgical year posts from past Octobers into one post. I like organizing things. My plan is to do this for each month. I like organizing things. I've also added links to some of my favorite resources for this month's feasts and celebrations. Enjoy. Month of the Holy Rosary Ways to Engage Kids in the Rosary Edible...

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Our Schedule for Classically Catholic Memory

I'm blogging my way through the four year Classically Catholic Memory (CCM) program here at Catholic Missionary Family. It's fun, it's audacious, and it deserves some more explaining as to how we actually accomplish each weeks' memory work. Classically Catholic Memory is broken up into 18 weeks. Each week is comprised of the following eight components: religion, latin, history, science, math, timeline, geography, and great words. For each component...

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Ideas for Classically Catholic Memory: Gamma Year: Week 3

I'm blogging my way through our four year curriculum program so I don't forget everything that worked for us! Please feel free to use what works for your family and share in the comments anything you would add. For more on Classically Catholic Memory go here. Religion The only thing I could come up with for reinforcing our Catechism memory work...

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Kevin's First Book Is Now Available For Pre-Order!

A few months ago Kevin had an idea. Someone should write a book with daily meditations based on the words of Pope Francis. Then he had another idea, maybe he should be that someone. With all of Kevin's work on popealarm.com he knows that lots of people love our new Pope, his simplicity, and his get-to-the-point style of speaking and writing......

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Journey Across America: Connecticut

This post is part of a 50 state Journey Across America. For information on the basics of this project check out this post. I wasn't planning on documenting this project until we were six states in, so the first five states are a bit lacking in original photos, but the next 45 will be full of them! The Books: We began by reading N is for Nutmeg and...

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Edition 7

- 1 - It. Is. Finished. The final piece of our home restoration project is over and I am thrilled about our new kitchen. Here is the before-ish picture (the original paint is the white-ish paint): When we bought our beat up former rental I thought this process would be fun and exciting, now I realize that the fun and exciting part...

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How to Paint a Wooden Saint Doll

Many of you have told me how you are organizing a saint doll exchange! I think that is fabulous. So fabulous that I've put together another resource to make your exchange even better. Here is your step by step guide for painting a saint doll. Step 1: Design your Saint Before you begin painting you'll want to figure out what you want your finished...

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Ideas for Classically Catholic Memory: Gamma Year: Week 2

I'm blogging my way through our four year curriculum program so I don't forget everything that worked for us! Please feel free to use what works for your family and share in the comments anything you would add. For more on Classically Catholic Memory go here. Religion Lesson 1 This week's religion memorization asked "What are the chief marks...

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