Oh Nuts

Stabat Mater 1. At the cross her station keeping,  stood the mournful mother weeping,  close to Jesus to the last  2. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing,  all his bitter anguish bearing,  now at length the sword had passed.  3. Oh how sad and sore distressed  was that mother highly blessed,  of the sole-begotten One!  4. Christ above in torment hangs;  she beneath beholds the pangs  of her dying glorious Son.  5. Is there one who would not weep,  whelmed in miseries so deep  Christ's dear Mother to behold?  6. Can the human heart refrain  from partaking in her pain,  in that Mother's pain untold?  7. For the sins of His own nation  saw Him hang in desolation,  all with bloody scourges rent.  8. Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled,  she beheld her tender child,  till His Spirit forth he sent.  9. O, thou Mother, fount of love,  touch my spirit from above,  make my heart with thine accord. 10. Make

Since it's been a couple months since I last shared a knitting project, now is a good time for me to share one of the projects that I have been working on for a while. Anyhow back in November, we found out that one of my other cousin's was expecting their first, so I decided to make a blanket for the baby. When I started making the blanket I didn't know if they were going to wait to find out the gender or if they were going to find out right away so I pulled out the three skeins of pastel variegated yarn that I had and started working on the blanket. The pattern that I used is called Garter Rib Baby blanket , which I found on Ravelry, and it is very easy to work with, though there were a few times where I accidentally started messing up the pattern but caught myself in time to fix it. The yarn that I used is called 'Playground'  and the brand is Mary Maxim Baby Kashmere, and it took me all six skeins of yarn to complete it. And this is the first blanket that I

Over the past month, I have been trying to write a blog post about some of what's been going on with me since I really haven't done one of these types of posts in a while. I had some ideas of what I wanted to include in the post, but the words weren't wanting to come out the way that I wanted them too. But after this past weekend (March 3-4) I have found the words that I want to share. Photo by  sydney Rae  on  Unsplash The reason why I said that this past weekend helped to find what I wanted to say is that I went to a two-day woman's retreat, which was being hosted by the Catholic Church that is down the street from where I live, with my mom and my older sister Amanda. The retreat was different than the two silent retreats that I have been on before because some of the retreat leaders shared their witness stories and we talked about different aspects of our faith as well. On Sunday the priest did a teaching mass and explained what the different parts of the mass