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CHC

$5 Devotional Stories for Little Folks Too, Nicholson, CHC brand new

$5  Pilgrims of the Holy Family  CHC  OOP a sort of unit study program for kids 10+ to demonstrate mastery in 75 specific study areas, similar to Scouting badges.    Kids delve into a topic of interest and complete a certain number of activities.  this was reviewed by Andrew at Love2Learn https://www.love2learn.net/review/pilgrims-holy-family

$5 The Secret Code of Poetry (OOP)  Text and 3 student workbooks

Middle School Lesson Plans  Third Grade Lesson Plans

$10 Behold and See 4  - 4th grade science curriculum worktext

$20 Behold and See 5 - 5th grade science curriculum - Text, Lesson Plans, & Workbook - first 8 pages were done in pencil and erased

ENGLISH

$10 The Write Stuff incremental writing program - teacher's manual and student book in excellent condition.  Two binders.

Sentence Diagramming – Level 1  - The Critical Thinking Co.

Language Smarts Word Activities Lvl B1  - The Critical Thinking Co.

$5 Dante’s Inferno A Study on Part 1 of the Divine Comedy / Catholic Courses

Pairs in Pears letter tiles

Cursive Handwriting  Program

$10 Secret Code of Poetry  Text and 3 student workbooks CHC OOP

$5 Voyages in English 4 Lepanto Press burgundy hardcover 1962 reprint

$5 Voyages in English 5 Loyola Univ. Press 1958  peach hardcover

$5  Voyages in English 6 Lepanto Press burgundy hardcover 1962 reprint

Language Lessons for the Elementary Child Book 2  Queen Homeschool                             Language arts with a Charlotte Mason flavor for upper elementary; picture study, narration, copywork.  180 short lessons, 77 pages

IQ Challenge

The Little Seagull Handbook 3E Grammar and composition

$5 Favorite Poems Old and New

$5 The Harp & Laurel Wreath

To Kill a Mockingbird The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Jungle Book Treasure Island

Explorer Academy Code-Breaking Activity Adventure

What to Do When You Don’t Want to Be Apart:  A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Separation Anxiety Cognitive behavioral therapy workbook

ENGLISH: VINTAGE CATHOLIC & SCHOOL READERS

$5 The New More Streets and Roads 3-2  1954

$5 The New Days and Deeds 5-1  1956

$5 This Is Our Town 3-1  1963

$10 Wide, Wide World Cathedral Edition grade 7 1960

$10 All Around America Cathedral Edition grade 8  1960

New Primer The Horace Mann Readers 1922

In Storm and Sunshine Book C  1938

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

$5 Gallaudet Children’s dictionary of ASL full color hardcover with CD

Signing Illustrated

Spanish workbook Middle School

Spanish workbook High School

My first Spanish word book  oversized DK picture book

Easy Spanish Reader – beginner

El Cuento – Spanish reader – intermediate, some pen marks, this was my college Spanish reader

See It & Say It in Spanish – beginner

Open Door to Spanish – beginner

Wheelock’s Latin 7th edition

Living With the Romans   Rome: A World Power

$25 for the set Lingua Latina 1 -Pars 1 – Familia Romana HB -Exercitia Latina 1 -Latine Disco Student’s Manual -A College Companion -Teacher’s Materials for both levels

$15 for the set Lingua Latina 2 -Pars 2 – Roma Aeterna -Exercitia Latina 2

$10 for the set Lingua Angelica  -Teacher Manual -Student Book -Song Book (How the Grinch Stole Christmas Latin translation)

Getting Started With Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age (Classical pronunciation)

Our Roman Roots: A Catholic Student’s Guide to Latin Grammar and Western Civ  OOP this is a fun twist on beginning Latin.  Kids draw funny little pictures to practice vocabulary, learn songs, play Simon Says, learn famous Latin sayings, Roman history & legends. (there is a review of this standalone program at www.love2learn.net/languages/latin.htm )

Little  Latin Readers  Christus et Apostoli (older version)

$5 Latina Christiana 2 Teacher Manual and Student Book New

Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! Level 2 Worktext and Quiz booklet

GEOGRAPHY

Don’t Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned

50 states flashcards

Student Atlas  Troll

Smart about the Fifty States

HISTORY

$5 America: The Story of US by the History Channel  a 12-part series about how this country was built 2010 Future of Freedom: Battle for America by Citizens United 2010

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Across Five Aprils

Which Way Freedom?

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Paul Revere's Ride

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia

Shh!  We're Writing the Constitution

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

The Sign of the Beaver

The United States Constitution:  What It Says, What It Means

Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend by Will Moses.  ex lib hardcover.  Included are a Johnny Appleseed unit study and a small golden book that needs some TLC

A Boy at War (Pearl Harbor) Scholastic

$5 The Catholic Faith Comes to the Americas , Seton, ever used

$5 Founders of Freedom (Land of Our Lady Series Vol 1) Neumann Press, red clothbound hardcover, like new condition except for a few loose pages at the beginning

$5 How America Began vintage ex-Catholic School textbook, 1966, by Sharkey, Sr. Margaret, Fr. Furlong.

Catholic Schoolhouse History Cards Tour 3 - 1500 to Modern Times  Like New

Don’t Know Much About History

Who Was? Fun, Colorful biographies John F Kennedy George Washington Carver Amelia Earhart Marco Polo Seabiscuit Isaac Newton Gandhi Marie Antoinette Sitting Bull Thomas Alva Edison Ben Franklin What Was? The Holocaust D-Day

$80  set of 12 The Tuttle Twins Books #1-11 and #13  Books are nearly new, only the first couple have been read

HOMESCHOOL

Middle School Lesson Plans CHC

The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer

Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum  by Dinah Zike

The Big Book of Books by Dinah Zike

MATH

The Best of Mindware Brain Teasers

$20 Calculadder 1-6, Readywriter, & Alphabetter set.  Search for Calculadder at Rainbow Resource Center for a full explanation and a look at some samples. These are printed master copies.  I loved this and used them with all my kids.  They are meant to be timed, but sometimes I didn't.  There are easy-to-use answer keys to quickly check the work. I always kept the masters safe and gave my kids copies to work, but you could also put them in a plastic sheet cover and use a dry-erase marker. MasterPak 1 contains CalcuLadders 1-3 (basic and advanced addition and subtraction, telling time, basic and advanced multiplication, and basic division) and ReadyWriter (basic letter stroke & fine motor skills practice).   MasterPak 2 contains CalcuLadders 4-6 (advanced long division, decimals, percents, basic & advanced fractions, mixed numbers, English and metric units, and geometry concepts) and AlphaBetter (alphabetizing practice).  These are all in a binder which also contains the masters of the Multiplication Tables Coloring Book.  This is like a color-by-number for each times table, and a hidden picture is revealed if they do it correctly.

The Joy of Mathematics 4CDs + guidebook -  The Great Courses

The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math: 24 Death-Defying Challenges for Young Mathematicians

Perplexors Expert level Grades 9+   55 p softcover

Mindbenders A3 Grades 3-6   41p softcover

Mindbenders B2 Medium difficulty, maybe middle grades 29 p softcover

Math Trivium Tables Wipe-Off

Saxon Math 5/4 text, purple/gray cover -  book is very solid but the pages are wavy and some nitwit wrote the answers in pencil on the first 11 pages buy hey, it's a dollar Saxon Math 7/6 3rd edition hardcover good condition Yellow/blue cover

Saxon Algebra ½ text, test forms and answers

$5 Intermediate Mathematics Student Kit Abeka Work-text Solution key Quizzes/Tests Quiz/Test Key

Teaching Textbooks Geometry 2.0 Textbook, answer key, test bank, & cds

Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1 Textbook, lecture/practice cds, solutions cds, test book, test solutions cds

Balance Benders Level 1  The Critical Thinking Co.

$5 Do Not Open This Math Book (+/-)  by Danica McKellar

$5 Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss  by Danica McKellar  Math  guide written specifically for girls

$5 Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape by Danica McKellar  Math  guide written specifically for girls

$5 Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math by Danica McKellar  Math  guide written specifically for girls

$30 Math-U-See math blocks (integer blocks) manipulatives.  279-piece set Includes: 63 green 1s, 16 orange 2s, 18 pink 3s , 18 yellow 4s, 26 light blue 5s, 18 purple 6s, 19 cream 7s, 19 brown 8s, 18 minty 9s, 57 blue 10s, 7 red 100s Math Ties Grades 4-5 - The Critical Thinking Co. Number Stories of Long Ago - David Eugene Smith, 1919, paperback.  Inside is great, cover is stained and has a small tear.  I love me those vintage books!  This has stories of how number concept developed throughout history.  the text is a little dated.  It has questions at the end of each chapter.

SCIENCE

DVD Mythbusters Collection 2 3-dvd set playable

100 Scientists Who Made History

$5  While You're Waiting for the Food to Come: 29 Experiments and tricks that can be done at a restaurant, the dining room table, or wherever food is served by Eric Muller hardcover,dj, exc cond   Gives scientific explanations for the tricks.

The Everyday Workings of Machines

$10 Behold and See 4 worktext  4th grade science curriculum from a Catholic perspective

$20 Behold and See 5   5th grade science curriculum from a Catholic perspective Text, Lesson Plans, & Workbook - first 8 pages were done in pencil and erased

The Incredible Secret Formula Book

Find the Constellations by H.A.Rey

$5 My Name is Gene/Fun With Gene  set of 4 genetics books and workbooks for middle school  NEW apparently these are still sold on Amazon so you can read more about it there.

What’s the Matter? And Mix It Up!  science workbooks for elementary school about atoms, molecules, & chemistry

Anatomy and Physiology Illustrated worktext

Photographic Atlas for Biology 1

The Night Sky coursebook, DVDs, and planisphere  by The Great Courses

Adventures with Atoms and Molecules book 1

$2 Bet You Can! & Bet You Can’t science experiments  2-book set

Netter’s Clinical Anatomy 2nd ed

Smoothie Time

United States Pony Club Manual of Horsemanship

Health Syllabus Using Casti Connubii

Catholic Reading: CATHOLIC KIDS

Catholic Quiz 5th grade

Catholic Bible Quiz 6th grade

The Cross Our Compass chapter book

Trouble with Lent (Adv. Of Nick & Sam #4)

$5 The Action Bible

A Single Bead (teens) (some stained pages)   A story about a girl whose grandmother died and how finding beads from her grandmother's rosary helps strengthen her faith and come to terms with her grandmother's death.

Pure Faith: Prayer Book for Teens (inscription)

The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories- very fat hardcover with stories arranged by virtues, compiled by William J. Bennett.  Dust Jacket is torn.

Our Lady’s Honor Guard Handbook ( a Catholic program for boys, s imilar to Boy Scouts)

$5  Pilgrims of the Holy Family  CHC  OOP a sort of unit study program for kids 10+ to demonstrate mastery in 75 specific study areas, similar to Scouting badges.    Kids delve into a topic of interest and complete a certain number of activities.  this was reviewed by Andrew at Love2Learn https://www.love2learn.net/review/pilgrims-holy-family

Book of Saints - Amy Welborn signed copy

Book of Heroes - Amy Welborn signed copy

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James’ Court study guide   Have you read this book?  I loved it.  It's about a Catholic teen who is challenged by his evangelical uncle and has to learn how to defend the Catholic faith using Scripture alone.  Unfortunately for you,  this is just the companion study guide.  LOL

Jesus Speaks to Me About the Mass

Dante’s Inferno A Study on Part 1 of the Divine Comedy / Catholic Courses

Consecration of St. Joseph for Children & Families

Mother to the Poor: The Story of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

YOUCAT

YOUCAT Confirmation Book (2)

DOCAT: What to Do?

Amazing Love: Rosary Meditations for Teens

Let’s Talk series – conversations with teens about faith and life, integrating Sacred Scripture and the Catechism.

Courageous Virtue for Teens:  A Bible Study on Moral Excellence for Young Women

Saints of Note

100 Reproducible Activities Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church Grades 1-8

Speak, Lord, I Am Listening: A Scriptural Rosary Book (all 20 mysteries)  beautiful watercolor book

The Baker Book of Bible Travels for Kids

$5 Catholic Mosaic: Living the Liturgical Year with Literature  - Cay Gibson  study guides for 52 children's picture books organized by themes in the liturgical year.

Max & Benedict: A Bird’s Eye View of the Pope’s Daily Life

Little Flowers Member’s Guide Wreath 2

Little Flowers Member’s Guide Wreath 3

$25 $30 Standard Bible Story Readers Books 1-6 by Lillie Faris, copyright 1925 Bible Stories and poems with classic illustrations

The Little Way: Catholic Virtue Program Year 1 K-5 Leader Guide and 2 Student Notebooks

Ask the Bible Geek 2: More Answers to Questions from Catholic Teens

Dis-Orientation: How to Go to College without Losing Your Mind

Almost Sex: 9 Signs You Are About to Go Too Far

Did Adam and Eve Have Belly Buttons?  - Matthew Pinto

Did Jesus Have a Last Name? - Matthew Pinto

If You Really Loved Me - Jason Evert

Rightfully Ours  YA Catholic novel about chastity

Do I Have to Go? 101 Questions about the Mass, the Eucharist, and Your Spiritual Life

Daily Direction for Teenz - cool inspirational reproducible pages with inspiring messages for kids

I Choose God: Stories from Young Catholics

The Creed Explained

The New Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism No. 1 (3)

Answers to a Child’s Questions about Death

The Sacrament of Confirmation for Confirmation Candidates

The New Testament

What We Really Want to Know… Answers to 101 Questions Teens Always Ask

Egermeier’s Bible Story Book Nondenominational retelling of the Bible

Theology of His/Her Body  - Jason Evert

The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth

Decision Point Confirmation handbook   - Dynamic Catholic's companion book for their Confirmation Prep series - videos available on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-X_eekTcxc&list=PLZisXcLIZva4ZSD3w0iaMzImS1fdKjF54

My Baptism Book  (spaces to fill out and personalize; new)

Saint Joseph Concise Bible History

Be Yourself - a Journal for Catholic Boys by Our Sunday Visitor (new)

• $5 Children's Retreats in Preparation for First Confession, First Holy Communion, Confirmation - Rev. P.A. Halpin  -  gorgeous blue hardcover with gold embossing.  It was written as a collection of talks given to Catholic kids in preparation for their sacraments.  I got this from Lepanto Press.
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• $5 Catholic Stories for Boys and Girls Volume 1 by Newmann Press - gorgeous blue hardcover with gold embossing.  Very traditional Catholic stories.  Excellent condition.  Has a name inscribed on the first leaf.  
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• Little Catechism on the Eucharist - Fr. Roberto Coggi, O.P.   "A Eucharistic compendium for Young People."  Paperback, like new.  Part 1: The Gift of the Eucharist.  Part 2: Miracles of the Eucharist.  Part 3: Saints and the Eucharist.  I bought this at a Catholic HS conference and never used it.
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• The Sacred Heart of Jesus: Jesus' Love for Us.  Daniel Lord, S.J.  Beautiful little hardcover.  This is in gift-giving condition.
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• The Beatitudes for Children - Rosemarie Cortler & Donna Piscitelli, OSV
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• Little Acts of Grace- Rosemarie Cortler & Donna Piscitelli, OSV
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• The Bible Story - Catholic school textbook, printed in 1960, intended to give children in the lower grades their first acquaintance with stories of the Holy Bible.  Comprehension questions at the end of each chapter. Decent shape, pages intact, cover taped.
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• $5 Devotional Stories for Little Folks Too, Nicholson, CHC brand new
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• Stories from the Stable - Hartman   like new, paperback, stories of the Nativity and Christmas tales and legends from around the world 2nd grade + reading level

From that little St. Joseph Picture Book collection

• The Church Year for Children - Winkler.  Signed by Rev. Jude Winkler
• The Joy of Being a Catholic Child - Winkler
• The Precepts of the Churck - Lovasik
• The Works of Mercy - Lovasik

Catholic Reading: Adult - APOLOGETICS/CONVERSION STORIES

Catholic Answers to Fundamentalist Questions

The 7-Step Reason to Be Catholic 2nd ed.:Science, the Bible, And History Point to Catholicism (2)

Answering Islam

Nuts and Bolts: A Practical How-To Guide for Defending the Catholic Faith

The One-Minute Apologist

Handbook of Christian Apologetics

Absolute Relativism

The Godless Delusion

Nothing But The Truth

Catholicism and Fundamentalism Roman Catholicism

The Salvation Controversy

By What Authority? An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition

The Biblical Basis for the Catholic Church

Recovering Faith: Stories of Catholics Who Came Home

Splendor of Sorrow: What a Hard-Boiled Crime Reporter Discovered about the Love of Jesus and Mary

Scriptural Catholicism: Foundations of Faith

The Catholic Passion: Rediscovering the Power and Beauty of the Faith

Their God is the Devil: Papal Encyclicals and Freemasonry

Behind the Lodge Door: Church, State, and Freemasonry in America

Science and the Gospel

The Rapture Trap

Why We’re Catholic

Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor

Catholic and Christian for Young Adults

Science Through the Eyes of  Faith

Catholic Reading: Adult - BIBLE/BIBLE STUDY

Strong’s Concise Dictionary of Bible Words

Walking With God

Ignatius Catholic Study Bible Commentaries:  John 1,2,3 and Revelation

Come and See Catholic Bible Study - Prophets & Apostles - Genesis - David and the Psalms - The Gospel of John The Life of Jesus for Kids

Collegeville Bible Commentary 1. Gospel of Matthew 2. Gospel of Mark 3. Gospel of Luke 4. Gospel of John & Johannine epistles 5.  Acts 6. Galatians and Romans 7.1st & 2nd Corinthians 8.  1st & 2nd Thessalonians, Philippians, Philemon, Ephesians 9. 1st & 2nd Timothy, Titus, James, 1st & 2nd Peter, Jude 10. Hebrews 11. Revelation

The Great Adventure

Revelation Study Set

And God Said, “Play Ball!” Parallels between the Bible and Baseball

Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger

The Faith for Beginners

The Apostolate’s Family Catechism Two-Volume Set  Family Consecration Prayer and Meditation Book

Why Do Catholics Genuflect?

How to Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church Following the Liturgical Year

Catholicism for Dummies

Our Catholic Faith

Memorize the Faith

The Faith Explained

Maryknoll Catholic Dictionary

Super Girls and Halos - Maria Moreira Johnson

Catholic Reading: Adult - CATHOLIC/CHURCH HISTORY

Giants of the Faith

The Early Church Was the Catholic Church

Celebrating 2000 Years of Christian History

God’s Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power – A History of the Jesuits

How to Read Church History Vol 1 – from the beginning to the 15th century

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes

Catholic Reading: Adult - FAMILY /CATHOLIC LIVING

Be A Man!   Fr. Larry Richards

Surrender! Fr. Larry Richards

Mom on the Run  Nancy Kennedy

Honey, Hang In There!

Raising God-First Kids in a Me-First World  Barbara Curtis

DeLIVEred: From Porn to Purity

Woman in Love

Good News About Sex and Marriage

Disconnected: How to Reconnect Our Digitally distracted Kids

Louder Than Words: The Art of Living As A Catholic

The Virtue Driven Life

We’re on a Mission from God: The Gen X Guide to JP2, the Catholic Church, and the Real Meaning of Life

DVDs Fireproof - with Kirk Cameron, movie about repairing an unhealthy marriage, based on The Love Dare Hard Questions, Straight Answers about  Sex and Relationships by Ellen Marie & Jason Evert Teen Relationships and Sexual Pressure by Jason Evert and Ellen Marie

Brothers and Sisters: Glimpses of the Cloistered Life

Bless Us O Lord Treasury of Mealtime Prayers

Our Lady of Charity (Cuban  Devotion)  Maria Moreira Johnson

Be Bold in the Broken  Mary Lenaberg

Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Friday?

Imitating Mary: 10 Marian Virtues for Moms

Life’s Greatest Lesson: What I’ve Learned from the Happiest People I know

$5 Catholic All Year  -Kendra Tierney

$5 Catholic All Year Prayer Compendium - Kendra Tierney

Lord, Please Meet Me in the Laundry Room Barbara Curtis

Please Don’t Drink the Holy Water  - Susie Lloyd

Bless Me, Father, For I Have Kids  -Susie Lloyd

That One Girl: Lessons from Mary for Young Catholic Women

$5 A Catholic Gardener’s Spiritual Almanac  New

5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter

Male? Female? Other? A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender

Fallen From the Nest

Loved As I Am Sr. Miriam Heidberg

Audio CD  Talking to Kids about Chastity by Dr. Greg Popcak new

Catholic Reading: Adult - HAHN

Letter and Spirit

Hail, Holy Queen

Genesis to Jesus

Catholic for a Reason: Scripture and the Mystery of the Family of God

Catholic Education: Homeward Bound

Life-Giving Love

Catholic Reading: Adult - LITERATURE

Further Up and Further In: Understanding Narnia

A Guide to Narnia:  100 Questions about the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Three Days: The Search for the Boy Messiah

The Best of the Public Square Book 2

The Inspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis

Dante’s Inferno A Study on Part 1 of the Divine Comedy / Catholic Courses

Arms of Love (novel about Theology of Body) (2) & Surrender (sequel)

The Da Vinci Code and the Bible

Catholic Reading: Adult - MARIAN/ROSARY

33 Days to Morning Glory

Our Lady Undoer of Knots Novena & Prayers

Marian Novenas and Devotions from the National Shrine

Understanding Mary Undoer of Knots: History, Prayers, Novena

True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary (2)

A Scriptural Rosary

Speak, Lord, I Am Listening: A Scriptural Rosary Book (all 20 mysteries)

The Secret of the Rosary (2)

Catholic Reading: Adult - MASS

If Your Mind Wanders at Mass

Learning the Traditional Breviary

The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You

Rejoice: Music of Praise and Worship comb-bound book of music and lyrics

Catholic Reading: Adult - PRAYER

Interior Freedom

Reveille for the Soul: Prayers for Military Life

Prayers

Prolife Stations of the Cross

Prayer for Beginners

A 40-Day Spiritual Workout for Catholics

How to Converse with God

Consoling the Heart of Jesus Prayer Companion

Prayer in the Presence of God

Prayer: Our Deepest Longing

Catholic Reading: Adult - SACRAMENTS

What’s Happening to Confession?

My Daily Eucharist 2

The Masterwork of God: The Sacraments

7 Secrets of Confession by Vinny Flynn 7 Secrets of the Eucharist by Vinny Flynn

True Presence: The Vigil Project

A Pocket Guide to Confession - Michael Dubruiel

Catholic Reading: Adult - SAINTS & BIOGRAPHIES

God’s Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks

Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

The Seven-Storey Mountain

Rediscover the Saints

Our Lady Came to Fatima - Ignatius books

Saint Dominic and the Rosary - Ignatius books

Saint Isaac and the Indians - Ignatius books Saint Katharine Drexel, Friend of the Oppressed - Ignatius books

Pauline Books: Encounter the Saints Series Apparitions of Our Lady Saint Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe Blessed John Paul 2: Be Not Afraid Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Missionary of Charity

Saint Philomena The Wonder-Worker

Junipero Serra: A Short Biography

Blessed Imelda Lambertini, Patron Saint of First Communicants

Paul, Least of the Apostles

Dictionary of Saints

Is It A Saint’s Name?  What Parents Should Know About Baptism

In Weakness, Strength:  The Life and Missionary Activity of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Super Saints Book 1: Journey to Sainthood

The Man in Chains

Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Modern Saints 1 & 2 Ann Ball

Devotions to Go: Jonah especially for teens

Jonah: A Study in Compassion

The Young Life of Pope John Paul 2

Rediscover the Saints

The Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati

The Saint Joseph Promise

The Twelve: The Lives of the Apostles after Calvary

A Man of Faith (Fr. Patrick Peyton)

Max & Benedict: A Bird’s Eye View of the Pope’s Daily Life

All Saints

Catholic Reading: Adult - SIN

Overcoming the Evil Within

Rooting Out Hidden Faults

Glittering Vices: A New Look at the 7 Deadly Sins

Catholic Reading: Adult - UNCATEGORIZED

The Golden Arrow

Mercy: What Every Catholic Should Know

Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Life

Suffering of Love: Christ’s Descent into the Hell of Human Hopelessness

Blessed Are the Bored in Spirit (2)

Your God Is Too Boring

The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity

Theology and Sanity

The Sorrow, the Sacrifice, and the Triumph: The Apparitions, Visions, and Prophecies of Christina Gallagher

The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy Visions

Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic

Knopf Travel Guide to the Holy Land

Uniformity with God’s Will

Charisms

Miracles: A Catholic View

General Reading: Kids Koko’s Story - book about the gorilla who learned sign language in the 70s Koko’s Kitten Stone Fox  Tuck Everlasting  The Jungle Book and other stories  by Rudyard Kipling Misty of Chincoteague  by Marguerite Henry King of the Wind   - sequel by Marguerite Henry Cry of the Crow  Adventures of Tom Sawyer  by Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain The Bronze Bow  Treasure Island  paperback by Robert Louis Stevenson Our Town  play by Thornton Wilder The Giver  by Lois Lowry To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare Explorer Academy :Code-Breaking Activity Adventure from National Geographic What to Do When You Don’t Want to Be Apart: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Separation Anxiety cognitive behavioral therapy workbook

Bowl Cozy Tutorial

This project requires all cotton fabric, all cotton quilt batting, and all cotton thread.

I would not call this a beginner project...  Maybe intermediate.  You need some sewing skills and experience.

Start with two squares of your desired fabric and two squares of all cotton batting.  

The squares all have to be the same size, but they can be any size.  

9" squares will fit a small bowl like a small Corelle soup bowl.  I used 11" squares for a large soup/cereal bowl like this stoneware bowl from Walmart.  15" squares work well for a pie dish or serving bowl.

Sew one piece of batting to the wrong side one square of cotton in a big X from corner to corner.

I don't usually pin at this step, but you do you.

Do the same for the other square.

This is probably the trickiest part.  

You have to fold one square in half with the batting on the outside.  

Position the folded square with the fold closest to you.  

 

Now you have to draw a line to make a triangle on each folded corner.  

2" up the side edges and 2" in from the sides (along the fold) will accommodate most bowls.

The higher you go up the sides of your bowl, the deeper your cozy will be.  For a pie dish or shallow bowl, you only need to go up about an inch.  

Make a mark on one side 2" up from the fold, and a mark on the fold 2" in from the side.  Connect the two marks with a straight line.  There's your triangle.

Place a pin along the line you drew, and stitch.  Don't backstitch at this point.

Do the same on the other side. 

Personally, I made a bunch of cardstock triangle templates in various sizes,
depending on how deep the bowl is.  But that's just me - you can just measure.  

Unfold the square with the stitched sides, and fold the other two edges together.  

Measure and mark two more lines at the other two corners just like the last step, and stitch them together.

When you open it all up, you will have your basic bowl shape.  

Now is the time to inspect how deep and wide it is.  Put a bowl in it for size.    

If it's not deep enough, go back a step.  

Take out the previous stitches and make a mark higher up on the side edges.  

If it's too deep, make a lower mark. Then sew it again and recheck.

Once you have it the way you want it, go back and stitch the lines again, this time backstitching at the end of each line.  This makes a difference later on. 

Do the same for the other piece of fabric and square of batting.

Now is the time to trim off the triangle corners where you stitched.

Do this on all four corners for both pieces.

Turn one piece side right side down, and the other right side up. 

Fit them together with right sides touching.  

Adjust them until all the corners are lined up, then pin.

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Sew all along the pinned edges, leaving 1/2" seam allowance.  In the picture below, I make two black marks on one of the points about an inch from the highest and lowest points.  I start sewing at 1, go all the way around the other three sides, and stop at 2, backstitching at beginning and end.

It doesn't matter which direction you go, but it does kind of matter that you leave the open space in the middle of a straight side, and not overlapping a corner.

Turn the cozy right side out using the open space.  Use a pencil or chopstick to make sure the corners are pushed all the way out.  

Fold in and pin the edges of the opening, and topstitch 1/2" all the way around the edge for more structure and a cleaner appearance.

I added a hanging loop, but that isn't necessary.  

These are machine washable and microwave safe as long as you used all cotton material, batting, and thread.

Hope this made sense!  

The Day I Nearly Drowned in My Bedroom.

 Monday, September 23, 2024 just past 7:00 pm    

I was sitting in the dining room after supper with Brian, Mam, and others.  Andy had gone to the grocery store.  I was scrounging around the bottom of a pan of 7 layer bars, looking for broken pieces worth eating while still saving some whole bars for Clare.  I took a bite of a piece and almost immediately felt a massive spike of pain on the right side of my face. It felt like a lightning bolt.  There was a broken, infected tooth on the top, and I was  usually careful to chew on my left side, but a large pecan got over to to the bad side and I chomped down on it.  Hard.  Directly in the middle of the broken tooth.  I immediately froze.  It was obvious to everyone at the table that something had happened. I sat in frozen pain and carefully probed the tooth to remove the nut and assess the damage.  I thought it had broken in half or was ready to fall out.

The previous time I experienced pain in this tooth was about 5 weeks earlier.  The tooth has been infected for years, but I was afraid to deal with it, and most of the time the pain was low-key.   The dentist recommended oral surgery, which was expensive and sounded AWFUL, and I was hesitant to have it extracted.  So I was biding my time.  The last time it flared up, I took a massive dose of OTC painkillers and went to bed while it was still light out, praying that it would subside by the time I woke up and promising God I would deal with it if He would get me through the night without having to go the the ER.  

So this time I left the dining room and went up to my third-floor bedroom, by myself, to take painkillers and lie down.  Nearly fatal mistake.

Time passed - ten minutes maybe - and I noticed some slight congestion, which increased as the minutes ticked by.  I sat up and tried to clear my throat.  The congestion increased.  Soon I was clearing my throat constantly and beginning to cough up some fluid.  I caught the fluid in a paper cup and it was pink.  Not good.  I couldn't keep up with the congestion and now I realized that this was SERIOUS.  I don't remember who I called first... I think I called Andy and told him I thought I had to go to the hospital. This may have been at 7:43 and he was still at the store.

I called Natalie at 7:44 to ask her to bring me an inhaler.  I say called - it was more like the breathless, high-pitched gasp of a drowning person.  Poor Natalie.  She had been sitting in the living room with Theresa, Clare, Brian, Jess, etc.  Philip was playing at a friend's house at this time - thank God he wasn't in the house to witness this.  I stumbled through the rec room, numb with panic and fear and disbelief, and Brian met me on the steps.  I tried to use the inhaler but I couldn't draw a big enough breath.  

He helped me to the living room and I sat down on the piano bench, trying to use the inhaler effectively while the rest of them in the living room looked on in stunned silence.  I remembering noticing that Clare was there and said a weak hello to her.  Brian helped me to the Suburban and I remember Andy putting it in overdrive to get to the hospital (thankfully only a 5-minute drive) while I repeatedly attempted to spit some of the congestion out the window.

The ER wasn't busy and I walked in on my own two feet.  They provided a wheelchair and I tried to talk at the reception window, but I was gasping for air.  I had enough presence of mind to tell the guard that I had crochet scissors in my bag, which had to be surrendered for security reasons.  I'd say they took me back to a treatment room within two minutes.  As soon as I got into a bed, they put a pressurized  oxygen mask on my face, which gave me instantaneous and enormous relief. I found out later that my pulse oxygen was 74 when I got to the hospital, and the doctor told me later that people usually lose consciousness when it gets below 70.

The next four hours are a blur. Two IVs.  Two or three nitro pills under the tongue.  Two nebulizer treatments.  One Xray.  One trip for a CAT scan.  Multiple persons asking to verify if I was SURE I didn't have blockages.  Didn't have history of heart failure.  Didn't have asthma.  Didn't have COPD.  They were treating me for a heart attack because nothing else added up.  Around 11pm, not knowing what was wrong or what would happen, I remember having the presence of mind to write a goodbye message to my family.  I didn’t want to send it and scare them (even more), so I sent it in a text message to myself.  Enough of them know my pass code so I knew they would find it eventually.

Andy says it was 2:30 a.m. when I left in an ambulance for the main hospital.  The EMT fiddled  painfully with my both my hand IVs the whole way, because they kept getting blocked.  Apparently the hand has to be curved at just the right angle to keep the flow going.  I don't remember what was being administered through the IV.  

I concentrated on every curve and turn of the road to the hospital, which I have driven time and time again.  We stayed on the main highways at that time of night, and I could feel when we got to the narrows and made the turn across the bridge.  I saw the lights of the tunnel and felt the turn at the walking bridge.  Soon they came to the Advanced Medicine entrance and wheeled me up to the eighth floor.  

My primary nurse was a young man about Clare's age with a beautiful boy-band head of hair.  His name was Stephen.  It must have been a slow night, because he seemingly talked to me for the next four hours straight, asking all the intake questions and making me comfortable.  I have no concept of time from that night, but I think I remember waking around 7 and learning that I was going to the catheterization  lab Tuesday morning anytime after 9 a.m.  Gina was away at school and didn't know any of this was happening, so I called her phone and left her a message.  I tried to be cool about it, but I guess it sounded more like goodbye, because she listened to it on the way to school and broke into sobs.  She was a mess when she got to school and I think she had to visit the counselor's office.

I was aware of the risks of catheterization, especially after my wonderful cardiac nurse/daughter told me the story of the first catheterization she assisted at, a nice woman in her eighties named Ruth.  She reassured Ruth about this routine procedure, assuring her that she'd be fine.  Then the probe punctured her aortic artery and she died on the table.  It sounds like a horrible thing to say, but you have to take into account our family's morbid sense of humor.  I wouldn't have had it any other way.

I tried to get a priest to come see me before the procedure, because of the risks, but one didn't come visit me until Wednesday evening.  Oh well.  RIP me.  I was more than a little scared and feeling very mortal.  I couldn't believe when they came for me on the early side - maybe around ten?   I couldn't think of anything else but to pray the Act of Contrition and the Memorare on repeat.   

The cath went smoothly and no blockages were found - go me!  Not too shabby for someone with a sedentary lifestyle who takes butter intravenously.  I also have prize-winning LDLs, triglycerides, HDLs, through absolutely no effort on my part.  The diagnosis was non-ischemic myocardial infarction caused by Takotsubo Syndrome, otherwise knows as Broken Heart Syndrome.  I count myself as extremely blessed, because most people who get it do not survive, but if you manage to pull it off, the  recovery rate is excellent.

Those three days in the hospital went very slowly.  Most of the time I was extremely drowsy and my sheets were always damp with sweat.  I could barely stay awake on Tuesday, but every time I opened my eyes, Andy was there.  I didn't even know he had come.  Natalie and Noelle came to visit for a bit, and Clare came, bringing dinner for Andy - all he had to eat all day was half my hospital lunch - but I couldn't even stay awake to talk to her.

Over the course of the next two days, every  time a new team of doctors from another department came to talk to me, I made sure I mentioned my tooth pain and how I really wanted to see a dentist. I told my sob story to everybody that walked in the room.  Finally on Wednesday a dentist briefly popped in and I told him my story. His manner was rather brusque but before long I had an appointment to be seen in the hospital dental clinic shortly after discharge the following day.

Xrays showed that , unbeknownst to me, I had another bad tooth with a large cavity that was affecting the nerve,  right next to the aforementioned infected tooth.  It was this other tooth that had actually caused the problem.  This was September 26.  I couldn't get an appointment to have them extracted until December 30.  I don't have to tell you how careful I was with every bite I took for the ensuing 3 months.  I had to keep up heavily with the OTC painkillers as well.  

The extraction itself was a breeze.  The numbing shots hurt worse than the procedure, although there was a lot of tugging, pushing, pulling, and uncomfortable noises coming from my mouth.  I wanted to keep the teeth, but they wouldn't let me because they were classified as infectious biowaste.  I did take a picture, but no way am I posting it here.

I was discharged from the hospital with four cardiac and lung medications, which I will probably stay on for a year.  The first month was very slow going for me.  I was so easily tired that I couldn't walk across a room without stopping, walked with a cane, and couldn't lift my arms above my shoulders.  I was definitely like a new person by November, though.  I felt fantastic, like I had a new lease on life.  I had also dropped 25 pounds without even trying.  I spent 4 months doing at-home cardiac rehab.

I will update after my 1 year follow up.