Last year our family went to the March for Life for the first time and what an incredible experience we had!   This year, I will be going with my 11 year old daughter and some friends to march on in Washington, D.C. to mark the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade court decision that legalized the killing of innocent lives and has destroyed so many.

I look forward to posting about our march this year that will take place this Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.  But, until then, I will leave you with these two posts that I published last year regarding "who" we are marching for and my family's first march experience...We shall overcome someday! 

This is "Who" we will be marching for at March for Life

Our First March for Life: In My Own Words and Photos

Last week I forgot to post another "H" activity I did with my 4 year old "cupcake".  I got this H house idea at Crafts N Things.


This week for our Alphabet Boxes we are doing the long "Ii" sound and my daughter made the letters with craft sticks and dotted the lower case "i" with a purple pom pom.

This past week at Harris Teeter, it was a special coupon week since all coupons $1.98 or less double.  Harris Teeter doubles coupons everyday up to 99 cents, but every 6 weeks or so they have the special coupon weeks where the high dollar coupons will double!  So $1.00 off coupons double to $2.00 off coupons, $1.50 off coupons double to $3.00 off!  Awesome!

Last night I went shopping again during Super Double week and got these groceries that totaled $55.58 before store sales and coupons.


OK, now it's time to step out of coupon world and back into the world of homeschooling...Last week I continued my Alphabet Boxes with my 4 year old and we were on the letter "H" so we did the following activities. 

On Christmas morning 2011, our family woke up to another one of God's masterpieces in the sky.  My husband snapped these photos in our backyard.  What a beautiful, priceless Christmas gift from our Creator!

In the Catholic Church, January 1st is the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.  Many are not comfortable calling Jesus' mother, the Mother of God.  Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosi has an interesting article titled, Mary, Mother of God?, which discusses how this title of our Blessed Mother came to be and the history behind it. 

I always enjoy attending Mass on New Years Day as a family to set the new year off right. We went to the vigil Mass tonight at 5 PM since we knew we would be out late ringing in the new year with friends.  So we played Wii games with 2 other families and then rang in the new year with glasses of champagne and the kids had sparkling grape juice (out of real wine glasses!) :)   They loved it!

This weekend our homeschool group will have our annual Epiphany party.  We have a get together after the Christmas rush and it's nice to come together in fun and fellowship just before the second half of our school year begins.  I'll be bringing the frankincense and myrrh that Anna-Marie at Life's Adventures posted about and then she sent me some in the mail.  I look forward to bringing these nativity gifts to our Epiphany party!  Thank you Anna-Marie for your thoughtfulness!  For a great article about the Epiphany feast day be sure to read The Epiphany Revealed!

May you have a blessed 2012!