Stained glass

The light was hitting the stained glass at our parish at great angles last Sunday. I love stained glass and I love watching the light illuminate different parts of it. My childhood parish also had a lot of stained glass. 

Angel food

I made Martha Stewart's angelfood cake recipe and it traveled to two different houses with whip cream and strawberries. It's really special to have people appreciate your food. Next time I just won't take it out of the oven ten minutes early (even if it it looks done), because there were some parts that could've cooked better. 

I was on TV!

I wrote about the pregnancy blessing I went to here on this blog in December: 
http://martajuliemaria.blogspot.com/2013/12/pregnancy-blessing.html

While I was there, I was interviewed for a TV show Ecclesia which aired Jan 7th. You can see me speaking in the video here at 8:30 minutes (I speak at 10:40): 
http://www.ecclesia.pt/programa/noticia.php?noticiaid=98608

or here:

The two best articles on motherhood

I know I'm sick when I take a bite of a chocolate bar and get so grossed out I have to put it away immediately. I never imagined reaching that point. I've been home all week with the flu and although I'm feeling better now, I still can't breathe out of my nose or even write articles for my posting schedule on CatholicStand.com. Oh well.

I can read articles though. I've been reflecting on motherhood a bit and I reread my two favorite things I've ever read about motherhood: 

"To The Mother With Only One Child" 

and "Robins", 

both by Simcha Fisher. I especially love the "collision of two worlds" in the first article and the "two indisputable facts of the life of a mother" in the second. I love almost everything Simcha writes. She makes me laugh out loud and she's really talented. I'm also reading her NFP book on my kindle and it's fabulous. 

Birthday

We bought balloons the morning of and were all giddy to host some of my handsome husband's friends over for his birthday dinner. It was hard work and we both felt sick the whole next day, but it was worth it. A highlight for me was making his cake together in the morning... a joint effort!