Wow, it has been more than a year since Luke or I posted. I hope you, dear reader, are having a blessed, joyful, and penitential Advent season.
I started reading “The Sinner’s Guide” by Venerable Louis of Granada and it is now on my list of favorite books. I am very excited to see that it is online here!
Edmund Francis Eugene joined our family on October 2nd, the Feast of the Guardian Angels, here in Omaha, Nebraska at Methodist Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches long. He has the beautiful red hair that Catherine and I share, and the sweetest smile. He started wearing size 2 diapers and drinking up to 5 ounces in an hour in December.
I just tried to upload a relatively current picture of our family and was unable to, so if you use Facebook and want to see pictures, add me (Corinne Dashjr) as a friend and mention this blog in your friend request if you don’t already know us.
In September 2009 we moved closer to Mary Immaculate Catholic Church here in Omaha, Nebraska. We are very blessed to live five minutes away by car and fifteen by foot (in good weather)! Two of our three children, both boys, were baptized there and we have received other Sacraments there, and will continue to do so as long as we live here, thanks be to God. Our rental house has three bedrooms and we are using similar to how we used our three-bedroom apartment in Kansas City, Missouri: Luke, me, and Edmund are in one bedroom; Catherine and David are in another bedroom; and our books are contained in the third bedroom. (In Kansas City the three of us were in one bedroom on two queen size beds and one bedroom was an office, with the third used as a library.) We have a crawlspace instead of a basement and too much stuff so our car is parked in the driveway instead of in the garage so that we can use the garage for storage until we get rid of most of it – thank God for that garage! Catherine and David get along well most of the time in their room; usually the only problem is that it takes them longer to fall asleep when they are both in there because they talk to each other.
In October my mother brought us costumes that my brothers and I wore when we were small. Catherine loved the bird costume so she wore that, and David wore the fireman costume that Aunt M. bought. Maybe Luke can figure out how to post pictures of them. Edmund was a cute smiling jack-o-lantern, thanks to the Onesie that Grandma D sent.
On December 5 I celebrated my one-year anniversary of discharge from Lasting Hope Recovery Center. I’ve been out of psych wards for a full year and counting! Thanks to Luke, our therapist, God, our priests, family, and friends for helping me along in my recovery from last year’s postpartum depression.
Here’s to a productive Advent and a wonderful Christmas. God bless you!