A Slice of Smith Life: Happy New Year

Jan. 4th: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Feast Day (and a Few More of My EpicPew Posts)

Today, January 4th, is the feast day of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. She was a wife, mother of 5, widower, convert, teacher, religious and a very special Saint!

This feast day post is a little bit different than many of those linked on my A Slice of Liturgical Life page because I didn't make any creative food or craft this year using the Saint Elizabeth theme. (But see photo below from Kendra's blog Catholic All Year of a creative themed dinner for Saint Elizabeth's feast day.)

Rather for her feast day today, I just thought it would be fun to share the EpicPew post that I wrote with facts about Saint Elizabeth. The post was published today on her feast day! How many of these facts did you know already?

35 Facts You Didn't Know About St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

And here is Kendra's feast day food. She writes on her Catholic All Year Facebook page: "Not-particularly-New-York-style pizza (but still good) and little New York cheesecakes for the feast of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, native New Yorker and first American-born canonized saint!"

Photo Credit

The St. Elizabeth Seton post was the 4th one I wrote for EpicPew. Below are listed the other ones that were published already on the EpicPew site.

26 Reasons You Should Leave the Catholic Church Immediately

40 Saint Quotes To Get Your Mind Off Politics

What This Little Girl Does For This Widower Might Make You Cry

In closing, I want to wish you a blessed New Year! This year when we attended Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, we were happily surprised to have the priest that celebrated our wedding on July 12, 1997, visit our parish and he said the feast day Mass. He was a new priest back in 1997 and we have kept in touch through the years through Christmas cards and our family would see Father Ned at various retreats and conferences. He always jokes around with us when he sees our family and sometimes says, "See what I started!" :) Our brief visit with him after Mass was a great way to end 2016 and begin 2017! Here is a photo we took after Mass with Father Ned, our very special and holy priest friend.

God bless and Happy New Year!

My 10 Most Popular Posts of 2016 !

Here we are on the last day of 2016! So much has happened in a year in the real world and blog world! It's hard to believe 2017 is just about here! I want to thank everyone who visits my blog regularly or occasionally or even if you happen to stumble upon one of my posts somehow. :) I pray it is a source of inspiration and support in some way as I continue to love to document the sweetness of my faith, family and homeschooling!

As I look back through my blog this past year and look forward to 2017, I thought I would list my 10 most popular posts of 2016 in case you missed a few. It's been fun to see which posts received the most page views.

So here we go....

#10 O Antiphons Lapbook and 12 Days of Christmas Books! (posted on 12/21/16)

#9 A Review of 2 Short Films Distributed by CCC of America (posted on 6/13/16)

#8 How We Say the Stations of the Cross at Home and a Soccer Sunrise (posted on 3/10/16)

#7 Holy Heroes: Spiritual Diary Review (posted on 5/23/16)

#6 Raising Chaste Catholic Men: Book Review and Author Interview (posted on 10/23/16)

#5 Advent Book Review and Read-Alouds (posted pm 12/5/16)

#4 Ladybug Lesson, Book and Snacks to Teach the Culture of Life (posted on 1/25/16)

#3 How Our Family Celebrated the Canonization of Mother Teresa! (posted on 9/3/16)

#2 Our 2016-2017 Homeschool Curriculum (posted on 8/1/16)

And the #1 most popular post of 2016 on my blog was....

10 Simple Ways to Celebrate the Canonization of Mother Teresa with Your Family

(posted on 8/28/16) with close to 6,000 page views!

Thank you again to all those that visited my little corner of blog land this past year!
Thank you also if you happened to click on any of my Amazon affiliate links and purchase items through my blog's affiliate link! Thanks so much for your support for my blogging adventures!

I wish you and your families and friends a blessed and happy new year in 2017!

I linked this post to Convert Journal-New Evangelists Monthly-January 2017, Issue #49