Wow! I actually had a team I pulled for all season win the big one! Drew Brees (Quarterback) is a Texas native and Purdue grad. Enjoy your pork chops, Archbishop Ayemond.
Now how will the Cubs do this year…?
A couple of weeks late in posting–but again, all things cease when germs enter a household with 4 kids!
If you didn’t make it to the March and Rally for Life this year, it was pretty well attended. I think it’s the largest crowd that the Rally has seen. There is a grass roots effort to get 100,000 people there in 2011. I must say the anti-lifers were pretty confrontational this year. They know they are losing. It was wonderful to see so many young people there. One of the speakers made the comment that his usual audience is over 40 EXCEPT at pro-life rallies when the majority of the crowd is under 35.
And of course the Sisters were there! Yay!!!
There was also a nice showing of the St. Louis Young Adults. And Lauren’s extra hands to hold Cecilia!
Even Therese found some of her friends there!
Did I mention I took up knitting?
I’ve now knitted two people scarfs and one for the baby dolls. The first one I gave to our dear God daughter, Lindsey, before she left for Germany.We miss her dearly and if we don’t make to Germany to visit at least something I made is there. 
With the left over yarn, I knitted a mini-scarf for the dolls. Here’s Cecilia sporting it:
I did just finish my third scarf for Fulton. We’ve been quarantined for the last 10 days since all the kids have been sick. Tomorrow will be our first day out again and I’ll be sure to get a picture of him in it and post it sooner or later.
From Sister Joseph Andrew of the Sisters of Mary:
Please keep this in your prayers — but on Feb. 9th, our 13th
anniversary as a community, we will be on the “Oprah Winfrey Show”!!
They were out here yesterday filming and 4 Sisters will be flown to
Chicago for the filming to be completed Thursday. So…if you
wish….you might decide to tune in on Feb. 9th — and to PRAY that GOD
will be able to use these efforts, too, for His Greater Honor and Glory.God bless us all….counting on your prayers, please!
in Jesus, Mary, and all our saints,
Sister!!
My grandfather, Robert Datzman, passed away this evening. We miss you, Grandpa. God love you.
Our Friday night was spent giving our blog a new look. We hope you like it. We do! 
This is in case you ever wash one of your children’s pillows. If you notice a seam has unraveled at some point during the wash cycle, sew it up before you put in the dryer. BUT if in your naivety and wishful thinking you throw it in the dryer anyway because you think it couldn’t do too much harm and you really want to make sure it’s back on his bed before bedtime and don’t have time to sew it up, be forewarned. Your husband will go to get your child’s sheets and then come to you and say, “The pillow exploded in the dryer.” And he won’t be kidding. And you think he is exaggerating so you put off tackling that mess for a couple of days. When you do, you realize he wasn’t kidding and hope that there weren’t too many other things in that load. Don’t waste your time trying to shake out the pillow fluff from everything because the pillow industry has stuffed these pillows with some crazy material that sticks to EVERYTHING on the planet except flannel. Don’t even waste your time using a lint roller or packing tape to lift off the fluff because the pillow really DID explode and this could be a whole day project and you wouldn’t have enough tape/lint roller stuff to take it off anyway. INSTEAD, get a comb and comb off the fluff. It’ll come off in no time.
Amazing story. Grant Desme was on his way to a successful Major League Baseball career but turned it down to pursue the priesthood. I’ve seen the argument that he is throwing away his God-given talent. I don’t buy it. Friends, this is a clear demonstration of the importance of vocation before profession. Fulfill the former and the latter will fall in place. I would not be a bit surprised if Grant finds a way to use his gifts in his ministerial future to help those in need. I know of one priest who did.
