..Giving time is a challenge for sure. Beds must be made. Meals must be cooked. Clothes must be folded and clutter put away. Money must be earned to provide basic needs. But nothing is more important than scooping up the little one tugging at your sleeve, hugging her and showing her the bird perched out the window, and listening to the expressions of the little thoughts on her mind…
When children arrive home from school one of the parents needs to be there, waiting, ready for that quality time that might pop up anywhere, at any moment. Nothing says love like our presence…
I am happy to share with you that BIG HEARTED is available for pre-sale, just in time for Mother’s Day! I’m so excited to share this book with you. I enjoyed so much collecting the stories for this very personal book about loving and generosity in families. A little synopsis is below. Each story is self contained- you can start at the beginning, the end, or somewhere in between.
If you are interested, follow the link here to pre-order, for a 15 % discount off the retail price- only good until May 1 and just in time for Mother’s Day!
Big Hearted: Inspiring Stories from Everyday Families
PRE-ORDER now and receive 15% offAvailable May 1st. Call 800-322-8773 to pre-order today!Big Hearted gives you an inside look into the triumphs, struggles, joys and sorrows of ordinary families with generous hearts. It invites you to witness extraordinary love in ordinary moments like the simple cooking of a meal or the hug between a teenaged brother and his baby sister. Just like your family, these families experience pain, setbacks, and challenges. And just like your family, they also experience love and immeasurable blessing through their commitment and care for each other.In this book, you will learn the story of:
• A father of seven healthy boys who struggled to love his Down syndrome baby girl
• A mother of twelve who learned an important lesson about Christmas from her children
• A special relationship between a teenaged brother and his infant sister
• Two grandparents in their final days who inspired their grandchildren in simple ways
• Two orphan children from Kenya who prayed for adoption by an American family and got what they asked for!
It has been said that God cannot be outdone in generosity. The stories in these pages will show you how big hearted families experience this truth in a myriad of ways, sometimes miraculously.
Ok, you’re either going to you find this amusing and totally relate ( likely if you have a bunch of kids or a sweet tooth yourself)…or find yourself slightly disturbed (at the thought of eating someone’s leftovers.) I’m not shy. We are clearly in the first group.
One of the guys David works with had a birthday today. His assistant brought in a cake for him. The only thing is, the birthday guy has been out of town all week.
Including today.
The people in the office adjusted, of course.
They pulled out napkins and cut slices anyway. After all, it’s the weekend, and the birthday guy won’t be back until Monday, right?
Leave it to the father of nine to volunteer to take the remaining half of the cake home (You realize it was just to keep it from spoiling)
Squeals met Dad when he told the girls the surprise in the front seat of his car. They rushed out in freezing weather to get it.
Mmmmmm……
So worth it.
Half vanilla. Half chocolate. A snowman on top. With sparkly sugar. We couldn’t have ordered a nicer one.
It’s amazing to see your child’s perspective of your family. I think this might be my new favorite *official* family pic. Gotta love the expressions, which are dead-on.
Thank you, God, for this perceptive child!
Ps. We don’t have a dog but as you can see there is one in the picture. Nice try, honey, but it’s not going to work.
Please check out my contribution to Catholic Moms Talk, over at Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle’s blog. It’s a re-publication of the original Suscipio article. I hope you like it
Someone sent me a video about George Dennehy’s family- a big, beautiful, adoptive family overflowing with love and generosity. I watched the original video and was so touched by it that I posted it here to share. Then, I tooled around You Tube, watching the other videos posted by George.
I couldn’t believe what I saw.
George has an amazing story. According to his father’s account, George weighed about nine pounds at one year of age, and was languishing in a Romanian orphanage, sickly, with no arms, and expected to die soon.
But George was chosen, adopted, loved anyway. His parents taught him that life is beautiful, and worth living, and that just as it is a gift to him, he is a gift to life. They encouraged him to develop his talents to the fullest, which, in his case included learning to play many instruments….with his feet.
Would you like to see some of George’s talent? Click below. Then, if you would like, subscribe to his You Tube page to receive updates from this talented young man. Be inspired. And pass it on. We all have something special to offer to this world. What difference can YOU make when you love God, follow His will, choose generosity and develop your own gifts?
Share that with me, if you will at TheresaThomasEverydayCatholic at gmail dot com.
Enjoy this below and have a wonderful day!
George did this:
which drew the attention of the Goo Goo Dolls, creator of the song. So, George was invited to sing with them:
Here’s an interview with George:
And here is the story of the family, as told by the father Mike, “How God Can Form a Family”:
