Peace The World Cannot Give.

The husband and I were having a conversation about how things are going for us this lockdown. We're both grateful to be Catholic because our faith grounds us and breaks us free from the usual worries of the world. Life still can be hard, but there's a sense of peace that flows through our day to day. Our children are our blessings (not burdens), and that perspective matters in the way we are with them. Home is our safe (and noisy) haven from the outside world. I think we're doing pretty okay, all things considered. 

We're making use of the time at home to carry out little home improvement projects, things we usually wouldn't have time to do. I've finally gotten down to buying new Catholic formation books to keep up with our children's hunger to read. I'm refreshing our children's toys and organising parts of the home. 

The husband is enjoying more time in the garden and giving his seedlings lots of TLC. He's also teaching the children more board games and reading up on new games to add to our collection. 

In random bits of news:

- Our big boy has just lost his top front tooth (after lots of whinging at meal times) and now has another loose front tooth. Oh joy.

- Our big girl is as always, the peacemaker among the siblings. These days, though, she can also give a misbehaving sibling a good earful. She told her big brother off today for being distracted in his work. I whistled and told her she scolds him harder than I do!

- Our little man now goes by the name "Pupstar". 

- Our little lady loves helping me feed our compost. Lately, she toddles through the garden with me and we visit the worms to give them some food. She watches while I unload veggie scraps into our compost bin. She's very earnest about it all and wants to see everything I'm doing.

Building the Sky Tower this morning. 

The floor is lava in our front yard this week. 

It's the feast day of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel & Raphael. We had a special dessert to celebrate and prayed the prayer to St Michael at night prayer. Sts Michael, Gabriel and Raphael , pray for us.