Catholic Cysters Corner - Page 30

tigir · 10-14-2006, 04:28 PM

Rachel ~ I know what you mean about class and the timing of mass, etc. I live about 2hrs away (one direction) from any church and for us to get up early enough to get there in time is sometimes more than we can do. If I want to make confession before the first mass I would have to leave my house no later than 5:30am. If I came straight home after it would be about 11:30am before I was home.

I also know what you mean about the nuns. Some of them now are very, very "modern" The ones in the parishes I attend still wear the traditional habits and the order at one of the churches is filled with the sweetest seeming women.

I don't have as much contact with them, but my sister does as she is a member of that parish - her boys take catchism classes there and she homeschools otherwise. Just out of curiosity, what curriculum do you use for school? I think my sister used Seton for awhile and then switched to "Our Lady of Victory". Everything is faith based. I have their Latin lessons for DDs.

Another question (which you may have already answered somewhere else) You say you attend a Latin mass, is it the Tridentine like I attend - priest faces away from people, old mass, etc.?

HHMMM Jim and Kara does sound really good!

juststartn · 10-14-2006, 09:21 PM

I prefer the Tridentine. We attend the only parish in our diocese with the indult. DH doesn't really care for it. He can't "get into it" (insert my polite, respectful eyeroll in here), so he prefers to attend either the Sat NO vigil mass or the Sunday am NO mass...the TLM is on Sunday afternoons. By the time we get home from Mass if we go to the TLM, it's almost 8. We normally eat dinner at 530-6, so it's reaaalllly late for the girls....Mass starts on Sun afternoons at 530...when we would normally be eating. sigh. It makes it a more difficult mass to attend on soooo many levels. I am trying to make a compromise. We attend the TLM at least once a month--the weekend of the parish potluck (which also happens to be the only weekend we have the High Mass--the rest are all Low Masses)... The rest of the time, we attend the NO...but DH has not been attending either (well, he missed last week with due cause...he was in such agony from our road trip, he spend practically the whole weekend in bed trying to recover). But it's rough...

Anyway, I'm using Faith and Life, at least this year. I don't mind rigorous, but with this new baby on the way, I'm having to pare back alot of things I would have preferred to do, iykwim....I'm just whipped...more so than with my other pregnancies....sigh.

Rachel

CelticSpirit · 10-15-2006, 12:38 AM

Homeschooling moms...

Where do you get your "stuff"? How much do things cost and such?

I'm contemplating homeschooling my son (if I don't get him sent out of district to a special school with an Aspergers program) because I think that it might help him.

And, how do you handle homeschooling with the little ones?

juststartn · 10-15-2006, 01:36 AM

Some people like Mother of Divine Grace. Some people like Seton. Some like Catholic Heritage Curricula...Seton is, I have heard, VERY rigorous.....I have heard good things about all of them.

I've been planning to hs since I before I had my oldest, so I've been gathering the rather eclectic "curricula" I use over that time. I try not to opt for consumables, since I have at least 2 more coming up behind dd#1.

What I use for dd is:

Story of the World, Bk1 (for history)
Saxon Math
Faith and Life catechesis (Our Heavenly Father)
The Children's Picture Bible (I believe it is a Lovasik??)
The Picture Book of Saints
and varying resources for science.

DD does a TON of handwriting/copywork/narration

I usually have her read (or I read, depending on how fast I want us to get through something), and then we discuss what has been read. She gives me a three-four sentence summary of what we have read, I write it down, and she copies it into her notebook. We do this daily (we school 4 days a wk--M/T/Th/F)for the bible story, the saint story, and once/twice a week for the history. This way she gets her handwriting, as well as the other subjects. I also have a WIDE variety of suitably related "free reading books" for her to go thru when we are in the car, or she is bored, or just wants something to read.

She also watches a good bit of education animal planet, and a couple of the programs in PBS (Zula Patrol is actually quite good for the science/space stuff--she's learned quite a bit about simple machines that way).

There's way more to it than that, of course.

As to what I do with the youngers...I try to do things with all of them at the same time. If I can get everything done before lunch, we're doing great, lol.
DD#1 will read her saint story, and go to do her copywork...the other two will watch Sesame Street...when #1 is done, the tv goes off, she and I do her next thing, she goes to do it (another room), and then the other two can do whatever it is we were doing beforehand (oldest MUST be out of the room, or she gets distracted too easily...)

HTH

Rachel

musicteacherfla · 10-15-2006, 05:20 AM

Hi, Everyone!

Well, I finally caught up on all of the latest posts! It sure took me a while!

It's great to see so much activity on here.

Rachel~ I definitely think you should write the pastor and vicar of the parish--in a very charitable and prayerful way of course (I recommend sitting in front of the Blessed Sacrament while writing it.) You may even want to write the bishop.

Kara, I am so excited for you! Please let us know how everything went with your beau! I actually know two people living in Steubenville right now. One is at the university, and the other is a nun.

Stacie, if you need some advice on Aspergers, please let me know. My husband helped raise a child with Aspergers (he was a "male nanny" to a wonderful Catholic family of 7 children!) I'll ask him his opinion on homeschooling versus the special school.

I hope everyone else is doing well. I wonder what happened to Lemonade Lady! I hope she's okay.

My hubbie and I just started praying to St. Gerard for us to conceive a child. I'll keep you posted!

Have a blessed Lord's day, everyone!

Carrie

tigir · 10-15-2006, 07:26 AM

Stacie ~ Looks like Rachel pretty well covered it!

I think my sister spends about $200 per year, per child to be enrolled in Our Lady of Victory. You could probably look most of those curriculums up online.

Carrie ~ I think I will take your advice when talking to DH!

Will be praying for you!

Rachel ~ It isn't a surprise you would be tired, you are running with three already!

My #3 took a toll on me, she was big and everything else in there was big - also had an extra bag of water (don't know how they didn't see that on the u/s)! I have been okay with not being pg, she was c-section and she came 1yr after #2, so 7yrs of desparation suddenly came to a close. LOL Still hoping for more, but glad for a little break, especially with the possibility of another c/s.

Lemonade Ladybug we miss you, please come back to us!

musicteacherfla · 10-15-2006, 05:39 PM

Stacie, I asked my DH about what he thought about homeschooling someone with Aspergers, and he said that wouldn't be a good idea. Your son needs to be around other people, and learn how to interact with them. The special school will teach him how to do that. Otherwise, he won't learn how to interact with people, and will end up shutting himself off from the world. This has been my DH's experience with Daniel (the one he helped raise.) He's in his 30's and still doesn't have a job. He just sits in his apartment all day long playing video games, and sleeps until 5 PM. He doesn't understand social situations very well. He could have been a doctor with his intelligence--he went to Notre Dame. Instead, he is throwing his life away--having never learned how to deal with his disorder. So my DH said that you should send him to the special school, provided they don't teach anything that is against the church's teachings.

God Bless,
Carrie

juststartn · 10-15-2006, 10:10 PM

Thanks, ya'll. I took a 2 hr nap this afternoon. Dh was very kind and thoughtful, and after Mass drove us to Golden Corral. YAY! No dishes!!! LOL

Then we came home, oldest two went outside to play (after changing, of course), and the youngest and I sacked out...I swear, that was probably the best nap I have had in MANY months...ahhhhhhh. Of course, as soon as I got up, DH headed off to the bedroom to sack out, himself....LOL. He's been in there about an hour plus now. Hopefully he's gotten some sleep, lol.

Hopefully I will sleep well tonight. I don't know. I am feeling pretty cranky. But that could be cause we are getting close to dinner time...lol.

Rachel

CelticSpirit · 10-16-2006, 02:13 PM

Carrie--THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!! I'm so happy to hear that your DH has some experience here. I was very much concerned about the social aspect of homeschooling an Aspie. I also told my son that if it comes down to homeschooling, I would drive him NUTS with getting him involved in every "social" thing possible. I'm to that point now, to be quite honest. He doesn't want to do anything. I've shoved him into math club, and science club (and fishing club--his math teacher runs it!) and he's hated it. UNTIL, he went to the club meetings and he's enjoyed every minute of it! He drives me crazy.

Now, we have a family mass at our church and the kids are involved in every part of it from readings, the collections, Altar servers, choir, you name it. I told him that I want him involved in it. I don't care if he doesn't want to, he's DOING IT! LOL

Thanks again for speaking with your DH about this. I really appreciate another person's perspective. I really want to send him to the special school. He really wants to go there because he wants to be around other people like himself. He doesn't really want to be home (probably because he knows I'm a nazi with education).

AND...my prayers to St. Gerard for you and your DH to conceive!!! May God bless you as wonderfully as He has for me (and more!!!!)

juststartn · 10-16-2006, 02:24 PM

Hey, could you all pray for my friend A? She's been dx'd with PCOS. She's on met--her second/third month by now...and it doesn't seem to be working yet. I think it's hard cause I was blessed enough to get pg the first cycle I was on met...

She's got a son already--he's in the 2-3 range--but would love more dc (being Catholic, and devout, well, ykwim)....so please, pray for her, that the met works soon...and that, if it is God's will, she'll conceive and carry another wee one soon....

Yes, she knows about SC, but she's very busy on a couple of other boards and doesn't have time to really add another one to her list...iykwim...

Rachel

Swingin' Cyster · 10-16-2006, 02:56 PM

Hi guys, lunch was ... nice... I'll post more later b/c I want to run to confession right now! So just wait in suspense...
love, Kara

juststartn · 10-16-2006, 03:05 PM

Lunch was ...nice...and she's running to confession now?

Sounds like lunch was more than just "nice"! LOL

(Ok, j/k Kara....)

Rachel (who is just simply "dyin" to hear about it)

Swingin' Cyster · 10-16-2006, 03:43 PM

Man, I wish! Just kidding, I hope this will be a Godly relationship, not one that sends me to confession!!
Ok, so Jim's not the best with emailing in a timely manner. But when I emailed him about coming down to Steubie, he emailed me two in a row to tell me when he was available so could we please get together when he wasn't working. At one point on my way home, I had to call him to tell him what my Saturday plans were and we talked for a good five minutes just chatting away. He answered with "Hi Kara!" meaning he's programmed my # in his cell, and then said "What's shakin' your bacon?" Ok, I'm giggling in my seat right now.... I finally had to end the chat though b/c I didn't want to ignore my friend who was coming home with me for the weekend. Then Saturday, Annie (aforementioned friend) and I went down and met Jim and some mutual friends (a couple and their 6 mo old son) in Steubie and had a lovely lunch. We didn't get to talk as much as I would have liked. At one point Andy took a picture of me holding Duncan (son) and showed me then switched back to the camera mode and Jim was like, "hey, can I see it?"

Oh, I'm squirming like a school girl right now! Jim was excited b/c his afternoon work had been cancelled so we got to hang out a little longer then expected.... It was lovely. But I forgot my cell there, so I will be w/o it for the week. I'm kind of excited to be w/o it for the week b/c it'll be a fast!! Hopefully, a lot of souls will be released from Purgatory... but also that means if Jim calls, I won't be able to talk to him... (I am checking my msgs and I left my house number on it so maybe he'll call at home!)
..... I just wish he wasn't in Steubie......
So that's it, not too exciting but I did get nervous when he first came in the door!
~Kara

juststartn · 10-16-2006, 04:10 PM

LOL--I kwym, Kara...and it's all cool.

So, you "have to run down to Steubie" this next weekend? Hm. Sounds like a good excuse for a little lunch to me! Maybe one a little less "crowded"? LOL.....

You know, I read something from one of my Catholic sisters on another board, and she was saying how she offers up her MANY discomforts of pregnancy for the Holy Souls in Purgatory--her DH says she's probably gotten so many people out of there, that there will be a parade when she arrives in Heaven, lol. But I thought if all of us Catholic women did that...well, imagine the end result of THAT?!? (and no, I don't need a parade! LOL)

Right now, my only "problem" is absolutely NOT wanting to eat. Nothing looks, smells, or tastes good. I know I HAVE to eat something, but I am SOOOO not interested...so if any of you have any ideas, let me know. What to cook that doesn't require me to look at it, smell it, or taste it? That DH and my dc will eat? LOL

Rachel

tigir · 10-16-2006, 05:04 PM

Jim and Kara sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-

It sounds like you had a great time! Looking forward to hearing more about your dates with Jim, takes me back - DH and I might actually have a good week. LOL

Rachel ~ I love your posts! I was telling my sister about you yesterday, she loves your quote about the "village". On the food - sorry, don't have any ideas...Went through that with #3 while I was still on Met and didn't know I was pg. As soon as I got off of the Met I could eat again. Do you think it has anything to do with that, or is it just the usual M/S? My M/S isn't usually very bad, just have to eat what I am craving when I crave it - doesn't always work so well when you are craving a certain mexican dish from a certain restaurant at 9pm...

I will say a prayer for your friend. You know, with as many women being dx with PCOS, you would think there just aren't any "normal" people left in the world...

I wonder about souls in purgatory, world peace, etc. all of the time! What if we just did what we should be doing? What if all of us just did it? Just think of all the grace we would be spreading here on earth as well!

I just want to let all of you ladies know how much I appreciate you!

It is so wonderful to have so many of you to talk to, who share my faith and the dreaded syndrome I wish I didn't have. But one good thing about it is it brought me here where you are and I look forward to visiting with you each day! God Bless all of you!!!