Family Centered Living

{Made for Learning} Finger Paint

by Brian and Nissa Gadbois 19 March 2012 Children

Do you remember finger paints when you were small?  I remember having little pots of paint, the cool semi-gelatinous texture, and a distinctive smell, not unlike play-doh.  I was five years old. Finger painting is a wonderful way to introduce little ones to making art.  They have better control of their own fingers than they [...]

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Brigid’s Footsteps

by Brian and Nissa Gadbois 1 February 2012 Breads

  The footsteps of St Brigid are everywhere I go Rising out of darkness from the earth below Little bells of Spring time – Pure and white as snow. The footsteps of St Brigid Have travelled far and wide Unconstrained by boundaries, Monarchies or tides – An abbess and a foundress A holy one of [...]

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Conquering a Mountain

by Brian and Nissa Gadbois 7 January 2012 Children

  “You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” – James Whittaker {mountaineer} My to-do list is growing and growing.  There’s something about the beginning of the year, isn’t there?  I mentioned some of the things I had to do here.  And I started pondering some of the other things I want to [...]

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Not-so-Bleak Midwinter

by Brian and Nissa Gadbois 7 January 2012 Family Centered Home

50 degrees in January?  It has been an incredibly mild winter here.  There have been only a handful of days below freezing.  Everyone thinks that it is spring. Come January, I’m usually holed up in my big chair, wearing a thick wool sweater, feet covered in my Nana’s afghan, thumbing through garden catalogues, while snow [...]

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{A is for Ambrose}

by Brian and Nissa Gadbois 4 January 2012 Alphabet of Saints

  Long ago, in the land of Gaul, was nestled the beautiful town of Trier.  The hillsides were covered, and still are today, in vines, which – every summer – grow heavy with grapes.  And in one lovely house, on one of those hillsides, lived the family of Aurelius Ambrosius – his very wise and [...]

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