end of September daybook// wake me up when September ends, part two

My life keeps happening at such a fast pace---sometimes I feel as if I can hardly keep up, or that I'm just trying to get to the next thing. I like writing "daybook" like posts every so often to remind me of progress, and see the big picture better.

New books:
Catholic All....Day, November, December, Christmas Novena, Hymns and Carols for Advent and Christmas. I have already used the "Catholic All Day" booklet and thought it was a nice addition to my mass bag.

New Skills/experiences:
This week I learned how to milk a goat, and this Sunday & Monday, I will be milking that goat.
Watching someone have a sugar crash. That was interesting.
I got to drive a Ford Transit on Tuesday night---that thing was a bus! so huge!

Been listening to:
-The Beetles (particularly, "Hey Jude", "Revolution", "She Loves you")
-Man/Opposable Thumb from Good Burger
-Bonnie Rideout G'ime Elbow Room CD
-Green Day songs (wake me up when September ends, and 21 guns, mostly)
-The William Tell Overture by Hans Zimmer/from the Long Ranger

I have been eating a lot of:
smoothies in a mason jar (magnesium powder/raw eggs/ bananas/ strawberries/apple juice/kefir/blueberry/raspberry/yogurt/spinach smoothies)

New things:
Today I bought a bottle of St John's Wort and am going to try taking that.
Mrs Meyers Clean Day Every day multi surface spray

Trying out:
White vinegar cleaning spray

Using more:
My cultivate what matters powersheets planner.
My new Instagram account for faith & the liturgical year.
Pinterest
The Library

Enjoying:
Reading/Writing time on Thursdays at the Stoughton High School while my brother has band practice
Hiding a case of root beer in my Camry.
Sundays
Cross country meets
Wednesdays, 9:30-12, teaching a second grader. Each week so far has included 20 minutes of science experiments (!)
Little workouts here and there

Not loving:
the Catholic Schoolhouse co-op I babysit at
That my home button on my phone is even more broke
school


Still trying to get my act together:
Missing a certain someone---every day! Listening to my "FMR 2" playlist nearly every day. Still feeling many angsty feelings as the days go on. trying to be intentional about ingredients in smoothies. trying to rest and recharge even more. attempting little lifestyle changes. going to try out St John's Wort. Since M is still under construction, I keep accidentally driving past the apartment, which always brings me many tears. I feel like I am getting worse about replying to emails---if getting worse was actually possible! I used to reply the same day as I received an email, but these days.....you'd be lucky to get a reply within a week... (also-don't email me babysitting requests!!) Recently I have been waking up with "kind of a headache" and Thursday I had a really bad tension headache, so that's helping my cause. I'm going to get a massage on Sunday, so that should help a lot. still wondering/fighting the feeling "is this depression?". I read the book "a catholic guide to depression" this past week, which has made me think no, but still, I've been trying to fight these mental..."challenges"(?)/feelings as depression....increasing serotonin, tryptophan and dopamine as much as I can (through foods) and getting magnesium powder in me. Trying to get more organized about this all.... sometimes I wonder: "is this the new normal?"....trying to work on my attitude/a mental game plan...
Still wondering when this "September" will end.... will things ever be the same again? (probably not)

crying over cars (still); some other happenings

Last week, I heard the story of the song at the scaffold on audio (the story of civilization volume 3), and was inspired to read the actual book. I can only hope to have that kind of accepting joy like the nuns had, when I am about to do something I don't want to!


Last week, I took a trip for 8 days to visit/babysit for a family I used to babysit more regularly. They just had their 6th baby in July. I live life fast & hard chasing the 2 year old around all day, playing with the other kids, holding the baby, and eating Popsicles + hanging out with their mom each night. This made for exhausting days, but it was great trip!


On the trip, I was walking home from an afternoon out with the two year old in the stroller. We turned from the library, and there was a silver grand caravan braun ability adapted van, and all of a sudden, the tears came hard for me. I cried the whole walk back to the house. Jeremiah kept saying "Don't crying Miss Frannie" and it was maybe the cutest thing ever. It IS a little frustrating how much crying I do over cars these days....


In other car notes, I am pretty close to rebuilding the engine on my Camry, so I will hopefully have that back soon.


Liturgical Living this month:
this was the first time I did this/knew about this---the Portuincula Indulgence
+ the regular things


got the steers butchered this week. picked up the pork from the pigs. and now all I can think about is getting more steers and more pigs. I'm quite bored with just one turkey ;)

July Liturgical Living

Sundays:
Sunday Morning Storyland
Sunday Mass

Some feast days +/ month theme:
Catholic All July booklet (Maybe its because I am missing a certain someone (I am!) (a lot!) or I don't know what, but I have lost much zeal for these booklets since April, the May booklet (which I bought in the hospital), the June booklet, and now the July booklet, they are just not the same anymore. still, they are amazing, and I keep buying them because I want the whole collection, but, much of my zeal for them is gone. I think I am missing a certain someone)

Daily/almost daily:
low mass
a character calendar

Reading sometimes:
with the church volume II
the catholic all year compendium

Calendar:
Tan Books Coil Bound Calendar/Planner
Holy Family Planner

New books:
Catholic All August booklet (I want to have the whole collection)
The Life of St Gemma Galgani by her spiritual director (just barely started reading)
the Mass for boys and girls by Fr Joseph Dunney (finished reading)
Servant of God Gwen Coniker by Nancy Martin (still reading)
(I went to mass where there is a great little bookstore and I couldn't resist making a few purchases :) )

June 2019 liturgical living

Reading from....
A Character Calendar (daily) (its still so weird to read this on my own!)
With the Church volume II (sometimes)
Sunday Morning Storyland (Sundays)

Enjoying...
the Catholic All June Booklet (still weird to read this alone!)

New....
Catholic All July booklet
Catholic All September booklet
(its still weird to be getting these booklets just for me)
Holy Family image that I have admired for some time now (still can't believe its mine!!)

Using....
Tan Books Calendar

Making...
a chart for with the church volume I and with the church volume II for what days/when to read it

I've been....
making it to low mass nearly daily
doing some writing when I can

Went to...
an authentic St John the Baptist vigil bonfire + vespers (my first ever)
diocesan ordinations + first mass
a Corpus Christi procession (through the church)

May 2019 Liturgical Living

I had a not so great start to this month, and took 3 trips...
so.... my liturgical year things were not like some of the other months this year.

I have been trying to find a flow/routine of:
-reading (The Catholic all Year Compendium, A Character Calendar, Butler's Lives of the Saints (which I got wet one night, but now it dried out nicely), With the Church volume 1, Sunday Morning Storyland....)
-the Catholic All May booklet (its lovely, of course)
-Calendar work (Tan books calendar)
-Daily Low Mass (aside from being gone, I've been doing pretty good in this area)
-notes on sermons
-notes from Father Z's blog (sometimes)
-my own writing attempts
....
I think that is about it. It's been a  bit of an odd month for the liturgical year -- and quite lethargic, too, and I, I've been having to get used to things differently after April.
Lets hope June is a bit of an uneventful month for me.
I don't really have plans for June. I did buy the Catholic All June booklet, of course, but even that booklet will be different for me. I haven't even looked at the feast days I really want to pay attention to this month, so guess I'll just be "winging it".....
Ordinations are this month, and some first masses too, and we get a new Bishop this month, so that is exciting, but not really "liturgical" exactly.
Stay tuned for what happens in June!

Palm Sunday, 4/14/19, 4/15/19, 4/16/19 & Spy Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday & the end of April

4/14/19: Palm Sunday
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children
-Mass + parish palm Sunday brunch
-listening to Jesus of Nazareth on Librvox
-went to a Polish festival
-Father Oak: Red
-Calendar work

4/15/19 Monday of Holy Week
-Calendar work
-Read from: Lent for Children, a time of renewal
-listened to Jesus of Nazareth on Librivox



(the rest, written May 29 2019)

It was after 4/15/19 that my life began to fall apart, so, that made my Holy Week fall apart and not go as planned, but I wouldn't have it any other way, terrible Holy week and all....

4/16/19
-Low Mass
-Calendar work
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children, with the church volume 1
-Chrism Mass

4/17/19 Spy Wednesday
-Mass
-Tenembrae
-Read from A character calendar, lent for children, a time of renewal, the catholic all April booklet

Holy Thursday
-Read from the Catholic All April booklet and A Character calendar
-Holy Thursday Mass

Good Friday:
-Caught up on Calendar work and readings from Lent for Children, a time of renewal, and with the church volume 1
-Good Friday Service

Holy Saturday
-Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday
-High Mass

4/24/19
-Low Mass


4/25/19 St Mark
-Low Mass
-Calendar Work
-Catholic All April booklet
-A New bishop appointed for Madison
-Sunday Morning Storyland catch up, with the church volume 1
-Read from: Butlers Live's of the Saints, The Catholic All Year Compendium
-Bishop Hying Mass

4/26/19
-Read from a character calendar

4/27/19
-Calendar work
-Read from: a character calendar, Butler's Lives of the Saints, Sunday morning storyland,
-Mass

4/28/19
-Mass
-Calendar Work
-Read from: a character calendar, butler's lives of the saints, Catholic all april booklet

4/29/19
-Low Mass
-read from: a character calendar
-Calendar work

4/30/19
-Low Mass
-Read from a character calendar

Passion Sunday & Passion Week (Lent week 5):: 4/7/19, 4/8/19, 4/9/19, 4/10/19, 4/11/19, 4/12/19, 4/13/19

Plans:
-Daily Low Mass (but, probably not on Monday); Sunday Mass (2x)

-Daily Lenten Reading: Lives of the Saints, A Character Calendar; Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal (essentially a continuation of what I have already been reading); with the church volume 1 chapters (a few for this week)

-Librivox: Jesus of Nazareth by Mother Mary Loyola (try to finish)

-Daily Rosary (2-3x), Daily Stations of the Cross (by myself, 2x with others)

-Daily Writing/Keeping

-Daily Calendar Work; Father Oak Peg Doll

-Read: The Carrying of the Cross or Start Reading: The Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

-Sunday Keeping: Sunday Morning Story land



4/7/19
-Mass (the statues and such were not covered up :(. ); Purple
-Read from/Sunday Keeping: Sunday Morning Storyland, Lent for Children, a time of renewal (maybe I won't actually get rid of this one after lent...), with the church volume 1 (a great Sunday keeping time with lots of notes!)

4/8/19
-Low Mass (YAY!)
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children

4/9/19
-Mass
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal, & a character calendar
-found some old Stations of the cross booklets to possibly use

4/10/19
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal

4/11/19
-Low Mass
-read from: lent for children, a time of renewal, a character calendar, st gemma quote, & butler's lives of the saints

4/12/19
-read from: lent for children, a time of renewal, with the church volume 1 (friday of the passion week), Butler's lives of the saints, a character calendar
-gathered books & such to make plans for Holy week

4/13/19
-Calendar work
-Read from: a time of renewal, Lent for children, around the year with the von trapp family, the catholic all year compendium
-Palm Sunday vigil Mass
-Palm Sunday copy work from Catholic All April booklet
-Holy Week Prep: wrote out more plans, gathered books & such into 1 book bin, read around the year with the von trapp family & the catholic all year compendium
-listened to Jesus of Nazareth on Librivox

This was a packed week for me, so I am glad I was able to do such a great Sunday keeping session on Sunday. kind of sets the tone for the rest of the week. It's hard to believe that Lent is nearly over, and we are now welcoming holy week.

Making plans for Holy Week

{progress made+need to finish listening to this book!}

{Good Friday Poetry--one of my favorites that I discovered in High school!}

{prep for making plans--Lent for Children, A time of renewal, with the church, Sunday Morning storyland, Catholic All stations of the cross, the carrying of the cross book+around the year with the von trapp family, the year and our children, the Easter book, the catholic all year compendium, catholic all April, my missal}

{pulling out books for my friend and I--a character calendar, butler's lives of the saints, my way of the cross that I made (red folder), my planet wise bag with my veil, booklets, rosary and prayerbooks for mass and such}

{making plans}





Also....
-Tenembrae, Chrism Mass, Holy Thursday Mass, Good Friday Service, the seminarians coming home (my brother gets to serve with the seminarians this year!), (hopefully!) confession,
-Father Oak
-LOTS of writing/notes!
-(maybe) reading from the Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (or I might save this for when we go to myrtle beach, as I want some new books for our trip and I haven't started this one yet)

Lent week 4:: 3/31/19, 4/1/19, 4/2/19, 4/3/19, 4/4/19,4/5/19, 4/6/19

3/31/19 Laetare Sunday
-Sung Mass (?) at St Marys Pine Bluff; Pink/Rose colored vestments (got to put out the pink father oak!!)
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children

4/1/19
-read from: Lent for Children (lovely as always!), a time of renewal (I am contemplating getting rid of this book after this lent)
-listened to Jesus of Nazareth on Librivox (several chapters!)

4/2/19
-Low Mass
-Read from Lent for Children, a time of renewal

4/3/19
-Read from: Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal, A Character Calendar
-I seem to be having a hard time with the waking up early for mass thing this week....

4/4/19 St Isidore of Seville
-I seem to really be struggling with the whole wake up thing this week....
-Calendar work
-Read from: A time of renewal, lent for children, a character calendar & Butler's lives of the saints (for the first time!)

4/5/19
-Read from: A Time of Renewal, Lent for Children

4/6/19
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal
-Mass (so great to see the images and statues and crucifixes veiled!)
-Made plans for passion Sunday & Passion week

This week has felt a bit...stagnant or something. And I'm not sure why I couldn't get my act together to make it to Low Mass more than I did. We're coming down the home stretch of lent, and I need to make some plans for Passion Week and Holy Week.

Lent week 3:: 3/24/19, 3/26/19, 3/27/19, 3/28/19, 3/29/19, 3/30/19

3/24/19 3rd Sunday of Lent, St Gabriel
-High Mass (!!) FINALLY! I haven't been to a high mass in like, forever!
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal, Sunday Morning Storyland, Catholic All Year Compendium + Catholic All March booklet (St Catherine of Sweden)
-Made plans for the feast of the Annunciation
-Father Oak: purple
-Read about St Gabriel from A Character Calendar & Lives of the Saints

3/25/19 The Annunciation-see separate post

3/26/19
-Low Mass
-New books came in the Mail:

More catholic All Year Booklets!!!! (and the April booklet is THICK!) I haven't had much of a chance yet to even look inside of these, but am very excited to have them!!
-read from: Lent for Children, A Time of renewal

3/27/19
-Low Mass
-Read from a character calendar (I've missed this book!!)
-Investigated New "Catholic All Year Books" (can't wait for April to begin!!)

3/28/19
-Read from: Lent for Children, A time of renewal, A character calendar (what a treat!)
-Listened to Jesus of Nazareth on Librivox
-New Books: Good Saint Anne (booklet) Butler's Lives of the Saints & Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (all from Tan books--- I bought these when it was the St Benedict's Day Sale--they are all so beautiful, I am excited to have them in my collection & can't wait to read them! So grateful  for the St Benedict's Day sale!!)

3/29/19
-Low Mass; purple; Feria mass for Friday of the third week of lent
-Read from: Lent for Children, a time of renewal
-thought up edits for my way of the cross document

3/30/19
-Read from: Lent for Children, a time of renewal, Sunday Morning Story Land, Catholic All March booklet, With the church volume 1
-Mass
-I got a new shelf!!!!! I have a bit of organizing to do on it, but it is might nice having (nearly) all my books in one place--and pretty accessible.
-made edits on my way of the cross document

Update:
I have pretty much ditched the "40 steps to Easter" booklet from Dumb Ox pub--and I don't have a great reason why... I was reading with my friend nearly every day, but, I didn't pre-read (ever!) when I should have and awkwardly read things out loud to her (like I read "thank you for the gift of being able to walk" (which was in the book) when she hasn't been able to walk in almost 20 years...so that was...awkward), so I kind of stopped bringing the book to her house. and sure, I could read it to myself, but the daily sections are so short that it feels like some thing I *should/could* read with her, so mentally It feels like I *can't/shouldn't* read it with myself...its complicated. but I've basically ditched it and I don't think/plan on going back to it (even though I could...)
I have been saying the stations of the cross by myself nearly every day, and this was a goal of mine. I use either my document or the Catholic All Year ones. I've said it with my friend not as often as I had envisioned us, but we have a  handful of times. I have also found that I don't have enough breath (or something) to say a rosary and the stations in one day with her, so I usually choose the rosary because it's *generally* a smoother experience.
My Lenten readings have gone...mostly well. There's no zeal or anything or but the habit is there. I'm looking forward to starting a new book or two soon.
I have been going to low mass pretty much every day it was offered this lent (I overslept at least a few mornings...)
So, I guess, you could say that lent has been pretty fruitful this year.

Feast of the Annunciation:: 3/25/19

~making plans~
-Mass
-Lenten reading: Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal
-Calendar Work: Tan Books
-Father Oak:
-Feast day reading: With the Church Volume 1, Hoever's Lives of the Saints, Catholic All March Booklet, Catholic All Year Compendium, A Character Calendar,
-Art: Signs & Symbols in Christian Art
-Wildflowers and Marbles blog, The Magnificat, Writing/Notes, the Litany of Loretto, look at art/picture study

(typically the day before a "big"/"bigger" feast day I will make my plans for the day on a spiral notebook like this--it's not much different than my daily routine, but it is nice to have on paper and not just in my head--plus I can look back on it in future years. Putting these notes on papers also, help me to feel organized for the day--although, this planning is nothing extravagant.)

3/25/19
A packed day for the liturgical year--and I soaked it in as much as I could! As well as doing lots of writing as it related to the day, and taking many notes.
-I Prayed the stations of the cross (and once again observed all of the edits I need to make on my document) because it was the feast of St Dismas
-I went to a lovely sung mass at Saint Mary's Pine Bluff said by Father Z
-Before bed I read from the Catholic All March booklet
-Calendar Work: Tan Books
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal, the catholic all year compendium, Mondays with Mary, with the church volume 1, the wild flowers & Marbles blog (+picture study from there), Father Z's blog, Saints a Year in faith and art, Signs and Symbols in christian art
-Prayed the Angelus several times, and the litany of loretto

all this made for a very lovely day with much reflection, learning and appreciating the riches of our Holy Catholic Faith.

Lent week 2:: 3/18/19-3/23/19

Low Mass isn't/wasn't offered Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday

Monday 3/18/19
-Read from Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal, Lives of the Saints, Saints a Year in faith and art
-Made St Joseph's day plans
-Listened to Jesus of Nazareth by Mother Mary Loyola on Librivox (I kind of forgot that I started this)

Tuesday 3/19/19 Saint Joseph
-Mass
-read from Lent for Children, With the church volume 1, saints a year in faith and art, a time of renewal, the catholic all year compendium, signs and symbols in christian art, the year and our children, a character calendar & lives of the saints
-Father Oak: white

{making plans}

{plans for the day}

3/20/19
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children

3/21/19 Saint Benedict
-Low Mass; Father Oak: Purple; Ferial Mass for Thursday of the Second week of Lent-I think
-Took advantage of Tan Books 40% off sale (This probably doesn't cunt as liturgical living, but I did do it in honor of today's feast day)
-Read from: Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal, Lives of the Saints

3/22/19
-missed mass because I slept in
-Read from Lent for Children, A time of renewal, Hoever's Lives of the Saints

3/23/19:
-Read from: Lent for Children, a time of renewal
-Read from "Saints & Festivals"
-Said the stations of the cross with my own booklet (I'd say it was basically a success)
-Ordered/bought: Catholic All April Booklet +  Catholic All Visits to the Blessed Sacrament booklet. SUPER excited for these!!
-Mass

end of week 2 update:
So Lent has been going pretty well. I haven't said the Stations of the Cross as much as I wanted, but have been doing a simplified one every time I go to mass. I have been doing "enough" reading, although I want to listen to Jesus of Nazareth More on Librivox. Originally I was going to not listen to anything on Spotify or YouTube for all of Lent, but I have really failed on that already, as I still have been using spotify nearly every day, but I have been listening to more Latin lesson CDs, and I have turned down my amount of recreational YouTubing-so that is good, AND I have curbed my trips to culvers, which was another thing I wanted to accomplish over Lent...
I have been sprinkling in some bible history reading towards the end of this week as well.

Feast of St Patrick:: 3/17/19

{plans for the day}

~ Low Mass

 {art}

{reading + notes}

{how my cube shelf has been looking lately}

~Read from A Character Calendar
~Read St Patrick's Breastplate from Catholic All March Booklet

Lent Week 1 happenings:: 3/10/19-3/16/19

3/10 1st Sunday of Lent
-read from A Time of Renewal, Lent for Children
-worked on my way of the cross project

I don't get how to use the Dumb Ox Calendars, so I haven't been using them at all; but, I have been enjoying the "40 steps to Easter" booklet that I got with one of the calendars-that has been a hit!
-Caught up on readings from A Character Calendar and 40 steps to Easter
-St Joseph Novena day 1. I hardly ever do novenas anymore besides this one.

3/11/19
-Low Mass: Monday of the first week of Lent
-Father Oak: Purple
-Read from: Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal
-Saint Joseph Novena day 2
-calendar work

3/12/19
-Low Mass: St Pope Gregory the Great
-Father Oak: white
-read from Lent for Children and a Time of Renewal
-calendar work

3/13/19 Ember Wednesday of lent
-Low Mass (I forgot my missal)
-Father Oak: Purple
-caught up on readings from a character calendar and 40 steps to Easter. I think it will skip reading the "action"/"practice" section from 40 steps to Easter from here on out.
-stations of the cross at the church.
-calendar work

3/14/19
-Low Mass
-calendar work

3/15/19
-Caught up on readings from Lent for Children, a time of renewal
-Bonnie Engstrom talk at Ladies of Divine Mercy

3/16/19
-read from Lent for Children, a time of renewal
-calendar work
-read a bunch from with the church volume 1, Sunday Morning Storyland: 2nd Sunday of Lent
-mass

Ash Wednesday, Thursday after, Friday after, Saturday After:: 3/6/19-3/9/19

3/6/19, Ash Wednesday
-Low Mass, received ashes (nice and thick)
-writing
-ordered Catholic All Year Printable Lent DIY Bundle
-read from Lent for Children, with the church volume one, the catholic all march booklet, and a Time of renewal.

{nice and thick}


3/7/19 St Thomas Aquinas, Thursday after Ash Wednesday
-Low Mass, votive mass of Our Lord Jesus Christ Supreme and Eternal priest
-Catholic All January Booklet-St Thomas Aquinas
-Calendar Work--Dumb Ox Pub, Tan Books
-Lives of the Saints-St Thomas Aquinas
-Read-A Time of Renewal, Lent for Children
-finished Yesterday, Today and Forever by Maria Von Trapp

3/8/19 Friday after Ash Wednesday
-Low Mass
-Read from a Character calendar, and 40 steps to Easter booklet (caught up on readings)
-Prayed the stations of the cross with the Catholic All March booklet. I need a new booklet. I looked through a friend's booklets, and took one to borrow.

3/9/19 Saturday after Ash Wednesday, Saint Frances of Rome
-Calendar Work-Tan books, Catholic All March booklet,
-Read from a time of renewal, lent for children, The Catholic All Year compendium, lives of the Saints, saints a year in faith and art and, with the church volume 1
-I am making my own stations of the cross booklet/document.
-Made some prints
-Mass at night

All together, a very successful start to Lent!! I plan to continue cruising through Lent for Children, a time of renewal, 40 steps to Easter, a character calendar, and with the church volume 1. I plan to continue using the catholic all march booklet, going to mass as often as I can, and other things as time/energy allows. I am hoping to finish pulling together my stations of the cross document. (probably a "simple" one, and then, one with art and bible readings). This is my next project to finish, and I hope to have it done on/by Monday.

March Feast days 3/1/19-3/5/19

3/1/19
-Read from a character calendar

3/2-3/3
-Mass
-fell asleep reading from with the church volume 1 :/ I had a really bad headache that day, so the reading doesn't count, but the effort was made to do it.

3/4/19 St Casimir
-Father Oak: white
-Low Mass
-read the dream of the rood and the stabat mater dolorosa
-read from a character calendar
-read "st chad" from Saints and Festivals
-started to read Yesterday, Today and Forever by Maria Von Trapp, its rather boring.
-received calendars from Dumb Ox Publications in the Mail, My first purchase from Dumb Ox Publications, and I am excited!

3/5/19
-Litany of loretto
-did some writing
-read from with the church volume 1, finished chapter from Sunday
-Read from Yesterday, Today and Forever by Maria Von Trapp. Its rather boring, I don't know if I will finish it.
-read from A Character Calendar
-reviewed Lent plans (again)

February Feast Days- what I did- 2/4/19-2/27/19

I've been smashing my goals and have been making it to daily mass (now that the terrible frigid snap is over) and have gotten back into the swing of a daily rosary. Also, I've been reading from A Character Calendar every day since it arrived in the email. So, things are going great!
(2/4/19)

2/4, St Andrew Corsini
-Low Mass
-Father Oak: White
-A Character Calendar

2/5, St Agatha
-Low Mass
-Father Oak: Red
-A Character Calendar, Catholic All February, the Catholic All Year Compendium, Saints a Year in Faith and Art, Signs and Symbols in Christian Art
-Who/what are "the 14 Holy Helpers"?

2/6, St Titus, St Dorothy
-A Character Calendar
-Low Mass
-Father Oak: White
-Saints a year in faith and art
-Paul Miki: The Catholic All Year Compendium, Catholic All February, Saints a Year in Faith and Art

New books:
-Chalice of Strength: prayers for priests (more of a booklet than a book, filled with prayers)
-Saints and Festivals: a cycle of the year  for young people by Mother Mary Salome (a book with chapters for various days and seasons in the liturgical year)
-The Easter book by Francis X Weiser (I caved and got this book this Lent/Easter season. a book for Lent & Easter, in the same style of Weiser's other books)

2/7, St Romuald, St Richard of Lucca
(no mass because I wanted to sleep in, mass ended up getting canceled and one of the steers found his way into the horse's pen, so my sleeping in plan was not a win)
-Father Oak: White
-Lives of the Saints
-Saints a year in faith and art

2/8-2/10, didn't do much over the weekend, but caught up on readings from A Character Calendar, did Calendar Work, and Catholic All February/The Catholic All Year Compendium.
I haven't been keeping up on my letter board...it still days "Candlemas Day!" on it.

{how I like to survive wrestling meets--lots of books!}

2/11, Our Lady of Lourdes
-Low Mass
-A Character Calendar
-Father Oak: White
-The Catholic All Year Compendium, Catholic All February

New book:
-Religious Customs in the Family by Father Weiser (its so small!)

2/12
-Read from A Character Calendar

2/13
-prep for next day reading: the Catholic All Year Compendium, The Year and Our Children, Catholic All February booklet; changed letter board
-Read from A Character Calendar, looked up Therese Neueman

2/14, St Valentine
-Low Mass
-Father Oak: red
-Catholic All February

2/15
-Calendar Work

2/16
-Mass
-Read: Religious Customs in the Family, The Easter Book
-made: lent plans

2/17, Septuagesima Sunday
-finalized lent plans
-Calendar work
-Read: With the Church Volume 1

2/18, St Bernadette
-Calendar Work
-Mondays With Mary
-Catholic all February booklet (repeating pages from the feast of our Lady of Lourdes)
-Lives of the Saints, Saints: a year in faith and art
-Caught up on Readings from A Character Calendar
-looked over lent plans
-watch CCC video of St Bernadette

2/19
-Read from A Character Calendar

2/20
-Read from a Character calendar

2/21
-Mass (St Peter Damien)

2/22
-Read from: Catholic All February booklet, A Character Calendar, Lent for Children 2018 Supplement, missal/mass readings of the day

2/23-2/24
-Mass (Saturday and Sunday)
-Liturgical themed choral & organ festival
-Calendar Work
-Reading from: With the Church volume 1

2/25
-Mass
-New Books: Catholic All Year and Catholic All March booklets (both so beautiful and I can not wait to use them!!)

-Caught up on readings from A Character Calendar
-looked over lent plans

2/26
-Low Mass, Votive Mass of the Angels

2/27, St Gabriel
-Low Mass
-caught up on readings from a character calendar
-printed off lent calendars from the Pondered in my heart blog

Feast of St Brigid, Candlemas Day! & St Blaise (2/1, 2/2 & 2/3):: it feels like spring!

2/1
St Brigid is who I chose as my confirmation saint. I remember not being able to decide on a confirmation name (I don't remember who the contenders were), and I was at DTS one night and the Saint of the Night was St Brigid of Ireland. I don't know what overcame me but it was then and there that I decided on my confirmation name/saint. Later on I said, because she is a patron of dairy workers, saying that it was my first year showing dairy that year. (That doesn't seem like a great reason to me, but I am the same person who named a calf "Pius" because Pope Pius X is my favorite pope, so I guess sometimes my logic doesn't make sense...) That night, after DTS was over, I went up to our leader, the one and only Eddie Cotter, and announced that I had decided on my confirmation saint that night as we turned off all the lights. I don't remember what else that happened but he did give me a printout of his notes for the night on her. I still think that she is really fascinating and "folky".

Audio:
the life of St Brigid

I really didn't do much to celebrate this day, except have a party in my head.

This day was also the feast of St Ignatius of Antioch. I went to Low Mass and read about him in Character Calendar.

2/2
Candlemas Day!

Reading Material:
-Saints a year in faith and art
-Tan Books Calendar
-Hoever's Lives of the Saints
-The Catholic All Year Compendium
-With the Church volume 1
-Fish Eaters website
-The Holy Day book
-The Year and Our Children
-Catholic all February
-A Character Calendar

{how my cube shelf looks right now}

{some reading for the day + Father Oak}

{some reading for the day}

{more reading, at night} (the words of Simeon are one of my favorite)

(all of this reading happened throughout the day, not all at once)

2/3
St Blaise

-throat blessed (on 2/2)

Reading from: A Character Calendar (I didn't ever get to other readings or art work for the day, although I had some other things out to do)

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I'd say it was a liturgically full weekend. :) I kept up with some calendar work, Mass, and lots of writing/notes.
Here's to our next liturgical living marathon!

the liturgical year--end of January (1/1/5/19-1/31/19)

Update on goals:
-I have not been making smashing progress on my goals. (I still haven't gone to mass any more times in January than I did in December, but also, Mass has been canceled a few days toward the end of the month (on account of freezing frigidity); I've gotten in a handful of rosaries but not many; I have done some reading but nothing particularly robust day to day--wrestling meets are great for lots of reading.)

Update peg dolls:
-my "Father Oak" peg doll has been working as planned, I look in my missal to see what color to put out.
-my mom says that the FSSJ nuns where black and not Navy Blue (which is what I remember), so my FSSJ nun's colors are wrong, but the message still gets across of who it is. I was so sure that they wore Navy blue....
-my other peg dolls are doing great :)

What I've been up to?
-Getting ready for February feast days with books, charts, lists, plans, prints and such. The last few days of January until the first few days of February my sister and I are house sitting for someone, although I will be at my house/out and about during daytime, I will be living out of a suitcase in the afternoons/night, so I do not have any robust plans--yet--for the beginning of February except for the feast of St Brigid ("my" feast day).
-Planning/organizing/preparing for Lent: making prints, making a Microsoft Word document of charts/lists, making a pile of books I already have, writing down feast days to celebrate, finding art, thinking of what books I want to read, gathering things, seeing if there are any new books I will buy this year, considering calendars from Dumb Ox pub, finding Stations of the Cross, making plans....
I have the option to get a peg dolls set of the Passion, but I don't know, peg dolls seem to festive of art for the passion, so I might not get them...Last year, and maybe the year before, I tried to go for pretty bare decor for Lent, especially during Holy week, instead of covering everything up with purple cloth, I took all of my religious pictures and statues away (which were a bit less in number last year). My desk and wall were so bare, and this was before I had my cube shelf, so I had less space. It was nice to put all of my pictures back up on Easter Sunday (actually I probably did it after the Easter Vigil mass), it was refreshing. So, I am thinking I will do that again. I want to go for a more "plain" look for Lenten decor.

Other updates:
-I have been using Pinterest again and have a  page (board?) for potential peg dolls, one for the liturgical year and one for art that I like/want.
-I basically "quit" Evernote
-I am excitedly using Microsoft Word again

New book!:

(I opened it for the first time at a wrestling meet this past weekend, hence the busy background)
This is such a great book!! and amazing addition to my liturgical year book collection, I have been soaking up the riches of this book already!! I am excited to make this book apart of my daily liturgical year routine...short enough reflection for even the busiest of days, and the shortest of attention spans! :)

Feast of Saint Agnes:

(books for the day)

 (about every other day my sister re-does my letter board, always filling with other shapes and such in the background.)         

Feast of St John Bosco

Happy end of January! personally I am hoping for a warmer February, with daily mass, a daily rosary and daily reading from "Character Calendar"! :) We have some exciting feast days in the month ahead, so stay tuned for what all goes down for that.    

{a first look} around the year with the von trapp family

This gem arrived today & I am very glad to have this classic!!!

(this picture was taken just seconds after me tearing apart the box)

I was very happy to dive right into its' crisp pages!!

(1/18/19, what I do on a Friday night...open up a new book on the liturgical year)

I have already taken lots of notes and done some copywork/commonplacing from this book. What a joy it is to be studying from this book! I can't wait to bring to life some of the ideas from this book!!