Resurrect!

So, it seems blogging has taken a multi year slump.  Thinking about resurrecting it again, as a sort of online journal sans the "oh look at me!" narcissism that Facebook seems to feed in me.   Blogging also kept me current with fun memories or events without the melancholy that my personal journaling contains. And now, a picture.

Learning

Just posting so that in years to come, I can look back and remember that not all was rosy but we tried.  Last week we started learning the catechism with our kiddos using this book.




When other people say things like that, I suddenly jealously get an image of shining little faces, quiet and attentive to their parents words, ready to have their hearts changed.  Wipe that away.  Real life, at least here, is noisy (um, 3 boys plus a talkative sister, okay?), fussy, recalcitrant, wiggly, sometimes pouty.  Will our kids learns the catechism?  Yes, that's how we the parents are leading them.  Will they suddenly say "Oh, Daddy and Mommy, thank you for teaching us.  I now realize that I should glorify and enjoy God in all that I do and say!"? Highly unlikely.  Holiness is what I long for, sanctification is reality.