It’s all happening so fast. In a nutshell, I truly believe school administrators have a strategic plan in place for students who are finishing out the end of elementary school and embarking into the big MIDDLE SCHOOL experience, and that plan is to:

Bombard kids and parents with as much activity as humanly possible to keep them from realizing what is about to happen to their lives.

So now that I’m onto these people, I just have one request: Can’t we just skip it and say we did? You know. Skip all of the painful experiences of puberty and tween-hood, and move right on to high school - or better yet college? Because I’m really wanting to breeze right past this whole complete and utter trauma. *sigh*

Lord help this ITCM. :’(

After consulting all morning and missing the original broadcast of this interview between Gifford and Kotb with Dooce, I finally found it and felt compelled to share:

Click here for the video clip!

I just love listening to the chirping of birds when spring rolls around, especially when the windows are open and a soft, fresh breeze flows through the Catholic Homestead making it smell all nice again. Only, this year the chirping is a little louder than usual, mostly due to Momma Robin’s decision to take up residence in a light fixture right outside the bathroom window. Which is fine by me, but not to a certain furry gray cat who has taken an interest in the chirpy little robin family. That would be Smokie, of course. And the whole watching-out-the-window-meowing-and-pacing business is encroaching on Smokie’s all-day sleep pattern. There goes that beauty sleep, Smokie.

Anyway, so I’ve been watching Smokie as she drives herself mad watching Momma Robin and her 2 (I think?) new babies in the light fixture nest. The best part? When the little robins aim their beaks up in the air and Momma sweeps down to feed them, as they chirp like crazy. That’s when Smokie just about loses her breakfast, a good indicator that watching the feeding ordeal is extremely exciting to her. But then I feel all bad and back away, because Momma sees us and decides to stop feeding her little ones.

No good mom in her right mind would keep a parent from feeding her babies, now would she?

As the saga continues… I’m wondering just how long Momma Robin can stand living under the watchful eye of Smokie, the ever so curious cat. We’ll just have to sit back and see what transpires. I’m sensing a standoff here.

After working on this blog all morning in my pajamas, I’m proud to report that at this very moment the ITCM blog-site is all squeaky clean again. The banner is a little too wide for my liking, but that’s a minor aesthetic issue to work out later. Catholic Hubs and I tested each and every update throughout the clean-up process, finding and removing only one minor glitch that had been causing your web browsers to report me as a mal-ware infested site. So we’re all done with that, thank goodness.

Now if you would please let me know if you experience any hang-ups while visiting this site, I’d sure appreciate it. BTW: Thanks to you friendly visitors who already offered help in troubleshooting - you’re a true blessing!

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