So we are a Catholic family

So I am Catholic.  Born & bred.  And we are your normal garden variety Catholic family.  

My hubby and I, two teenagers, 4 dogs and a cat.  We have all the challenges of an average family ... budgets that balance but money that seems to fall just short of the 26th of every month, a 15 year old son with the wisdom of a 20 year old (an old soul in every respect) and a 20 year old daughter, training full-time at a Chefs Academy and getting used to 12 hour days and a life away from a school she was in from Gr 0 to Gr 12.  My son has been in the same Catholic school as her since Gr 0 as well.  

We go to Mass on the weekends, sometimes in the week as well.  We observe the Holy Days of Obligation.  We pray the Angelus and the Rosary.  We make our sacrifices during Lent and we spend our lives in Church from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday.  All the regular things.  

I work for a Priest full-time as his PA.  So church is everywhere around me.  It does not mean I am perfectly behaved or a model of religious life.  I am simply me - wife, mom, daughter, sister, friend and PA.

We also have days on which we question God.  And challenge His ways.  We have days on which our language is perhaps not as should be.  We go to Confession and then find ourselves transgressing .... no-one can say they don't.  We have days that we drag kids to Church.  We have days that we drag ourselves to Church. We sometimes forget to pray.  

And I find a shortage of a forum or writing that tells the tales and daily tolls of being a simple Catholic family. 

Family outing to the zoo - July 2014

I intend to rectify this. 

Till next time
Take a Leap of Faith in Life 
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