Last week in pictures

Last week was a week of wonderful feasts and an amazing astronomical event. Here is our week in pictures.

~Super Blood Moon~

Last week was also the beginning of BigBoy's foray into altar serving...

He's the one snuffing out the candle that's twice as tall as he is!

This week is one of my favorite weeks in the liturgical season, but it also sneaks up on me just about every year. This year, Miss Cupcake became aware of feast days and quickly picked up on the concept of special feast day treats. After Michaelmas, she pretty much woke up every day asking what special treat we were making that day. A quick recap...

~Feast of St. Michael~

Blackberry Jam for Michaelmas... the Smuckers turned out to be the favorite in the blind taste test.

~Candy Roses for St. Therese~

OK, this is a real rose. Not candy.

 Candy roses made with her big sis, Rain. 

~Angel Kisses for the Feast of the Guardian Angels~

These are just a simple meringue cookie recipe, not the pepperminty ones I made last year. I made some with M&M's inside and some with crushed peppermint sticks sprinkled on top. 

~Wolf's Paw Cookies for St. Francis~

Left over chocolate chip cookies were turned into Wolf's Paw cookies using some melted chocolate and white chocolate chips. Rain made these to celebrate St. Francis, her Confirmation saint. 

Reading a story about St. Francis with Sunshine 

Cupcake's new glasses came in. She tells me she's seeing better and I'm hoping that the convergence we were seeing will go away. Personally, I think she looks just so darn cute in her glasses. Like a teeny, tiny little librarian. 

Our Lady of the Rosary is coming up this week. If you are looking for some coloring pages, you can find them here. 

Feast Day Round Up

It's been a busy week with some major feast days to celebrate. Our celebrations used to be more elaborate, but as my kids have grown older, they've become more subdued.  I think that's only natural, but sometimes I feel guilty about my littler ones. Are they missing out by not celebrating the way we used to? I think I need to try to make a few things a little more festive, but I like this more relaxed pace too. It's such a balance, isn't it?

September 29th (Michaelmas, Feast of the Archangels, The Professor's Confirmation saint)

Blackberry jam spread on homemade bread

This is some Blackberry Cobbler jam that I ordered for Sean a while back from the winery that we visited on our honeymoon. The kids prefer plain blackberry jam.

October 1st (Feast of St. Therese the Little Flower, special friend of Sunshine's and Confirmation anniversary for Sunshine and The Professor)

Pumpkin Cupcakes with super easy Frosting Roses

My babies 6 years ago.

October 2 (Feast of the Guardian Angels, special friends to all of us)

Angel Kisses (peppermint meringue cookies)

October 4th (Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Rain's Confirmation saint)

Pot Pie Soup over at Catholic Cuisine… Rain is going to spoil us with some of her Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread today!

St. Francis Coloring Page

October 4

 St. Francis Coloring Page

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Simple Celebrations :: Feast of St. Francis

 Shortcake put together this table decoration this morning to honor her confirmation saint and Heavenly friend, St. Francis of Assisi. She even went outside and hunted down the small handful of fall colored leaves she could find (mostly yellow and brown with tinges of red on the edges.

We will have a simple celebration with our favorite animal crackers. I had another idea for today's feast day but it will have to wait until next year. Miss Mary, or Courtney's Mama as she's known around here, posted a link to this yummy looking Chicken Pot Pie soup recipe (which is basically just a cream of chicken soup) with cooked pie crust "crackers" tossed on top. Since we eat meatless on Fridays, it wasn't going to work for us today but I thought it would be a fun idea to cut out the pie crust crackers in little animal shapes using some very old little animal cracker sized cookie cutters I had (like as old as my oldest child, I think). Similar to these. {affiliate link}

A tiny bunny, cross, and dog bone shape. I also used a tiny fish, pig and a dove. 

BigBoy helped!

I made the soup a couple of nights ago and took pictures and thought I'd post it here to save for next year. I followed the recipe exactly but found it a little bland. I would probably try to jazz it up a little if I make it again. I guess you could do the same thing with a meatless soup recipe like a cream of potato or vegetable. I didn't think of that so I didn't think to put soup on the menu for tonight. Oh well.

O God, You enabled St. Francis to imitate Christ by his poverty and humility. Walking in St. Francis' footsteps, may we follow Your Son and be bound to You by a joyful love. Amen.

Happy Feast of St. Francis!

Here is a roundup of our celebrations past.

Simple celebrations: Feast of St. Francis

Simple because that's life. Simple because we go back to the doctor today.  

St. Francis, please intercede for my sweet Shortcake who chose you as her special Confirmation patron.

 

Feast of St. Francis

Happy Feast of St. Francis!! He is by far, the most searched for coloring page I have:

St. Francis of Assisi

Since going to the zoo is not possible today, I think we will check out the new ZooBorns. Here is a round up of ideas from the past:

Feast of St. Francis 2007 (animal masks)

Feast of St. Francis 2008 (animal cookies)

Feast of St. Francis 2009 (pet treats)


Listen to the prayer of St. Francis being sung by Sarah McLachlan.

St. Francis Coloring Page

I can tell by Scribd's stats that St. Francis is the most popular saint for whom I have a coloring page. Even more popular than St. Michael and Mother Teresa. Just to make it easier to find tomorrow... here is the link. We will be making some homemade animal cookies and possibly some critter treats for our Crouton and her neighborhood friends.

If you would be so kind as to say a prayer for my little Shortcake who has a busy week coming up and who claims St. Francis as her special patron, I would appreciate it!

Thank you!