I have discovered a self-labeled
traditionalist Catholic bookstore thirty minutes' drive from our house and it is excellent--quite excellent. The store offers a
very good selection of books and I now have six new ones, waiting to be "devoured." (I wonder how early I can get the kids to fall asleep tonight.) You may write your condolences to my patient husband via comments to this post!
While in the store, John occupied himself beautifully, spending most of his time digging through some baskets on the floor with inexpensive items. He found a basket full of plastic statuettes: "Saints, Mama,
saints! Wow! Who is this? And who is this one?" He was enthralled with a cheap plastic crucifix, with engraved stations of the cross on it, on which a glow-in-the-dark Jesus is hanging. You know, when I first converted to Catholicism, my newly Catholic aunt and I commented to each other for at least a year about the outright
kitcsch of Catholic spiritual aids. And now I've become quite accustomed to them and here I have bought a
glow-in-the-dark Jesus for my child because he couldn't stop saying that he "loved" it. Of course, he already has a crucifix in his room, up high. I told him that perhaps it would help him when he wakes up in the night to see this Jesus glowing right next to his pillow and he could say a prayer to Jesus instead of calling for Mama and Daddy.
Also, I finally got around to hanging these little key hooks I have had floating around, to be used to hang rosaries in John's room. (We have that chair in John's room because it is where one of us grown-ups will sit during bedtime routine or while reading a story to the kids.)
While in the store, John occupied himself beautifully, spending most of his time digging through some baskets on the floor with inexpensive items. He found a basket full of plastic statuettes: "Saints, Mama, saints! Wow! Who is this? And who is this one?" He was enthralled with a cheap plastic crucifix, with engraved stations of the cross on it, on which a glow-in-the-dark Jesus is hanging. You know, when I first converted to Catholicism, my newly Catholic aunt and I commented to each other for at least a year about the outright kitcsch of Catholic spiritual aids. And now I've become quite accustomed to them and here I have bought a glow-in-the-dark Jesus for my child because he couldn't stop saying that he "loved" it. Of course, he already has a crucifix in his room, up high. I told him that perhaps it would help him when he wakes up in the night to see this Jesus glowing right next to his pillow and he could say a prayer to Jesus instead of calling for Mama and Daddy.
Also, I finally got around to hanging these little key hooks I have had floating around, to be used to hang rosaries in John's room. (We have that chair in John's room because it is where one of us grown-ups will sit during bedtime routine or while reading a story to the kids.)
The rosaries hanging on hooks are already bearing fruits! Tonight at bedtime, I told the kids I was going to pray the rosary while they rested and, if they were still awake when I was done, I'd put on their lullaby CD. I prayed in the dark and Mary fell fast asleep without a peep. John relaxed and was still awake later, so I put on the lullabies before I left the room. HOW SWEET is it to see a two-year-old asleep clutching her stuffed kitty cat and a rosary?
ReplyDeleteGlow in the dark corpus is definitely the epitome of kitsch! ;)
ReplyDeleteI just spent > $100 at Mary's Garden - SO GLAD I don't live close by! Ha!
ReplyDeleteWell I sure hope your glow in the dark Jesus helps the bedtime go smoothly! :)
Out of sheer curiosity, what kind of lullaby CD do you have? I'm desperate to get Rachel, who's three, down to sleep with out my having to wear her in the Ergo first. If my kids knew that such a thing existed as a glow-in-the-dark crucifix, there would be much begging until said item was purchased. I'm keeping this post mum. (I love that idea, though!! LOL)
ReplyDeleteEnid: I'll try later today to grab our lullaby CDs and type out some titles for you!
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