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In my house, late September and early October are one huge week of feasting. But I realized that I let my October plans spill into the September thread. Here is my early October list. And we can add as we go:
October 1 Feast of St. Therese (Katie's name is actually Kirsten Therese and Karoline's middle name is "Rose" because she is the answer to a St. Therese Rose Novena.:
Michael is Katie's godfather and he always brings her sweetheart roses ("little flowers"). We bake a white cake and decorate it with edible sugared roses. We serve some sort of herbal tea with rose hips. We always pray the rose novena. This year, my Our Lady of Guadalupe roses have been amazing. I've been drying them to make sachets on October 1.
October 2nd Guardian Angels' feast and Patrick's birthday: Angel food cake for the guardian angels, topped with chocolate mousse because Patrick loves it.
October 4 St. Francis' feast and Karoline's birthday: this is new combination for me. I'm still thinking. But this is the Septmember thread, anyway, isn't it? 
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For Sweet Karoline's birthday, you could do an animal themed celebration and explore face painting (animal faces of course). We did that one year for my kids. I want to try to make animal masks this year but if we don't I'll be doing the face painting again.
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October 5th is my birthday so I nearly always get to go the the Virginia Fall Fiber Festival.... but that is not really helpful is it?
For the 2nd, I have 'make angel whispers' from one of the liturgical books but I forget which, and 'make calligraphic Guardian Angel prayer for over the bed'... I was thinking maybe some artwork decorating it by the kids
Since the 4th is St. Francis, there is the Tomie de Paola book to read (Thank you for introducing him to me).
I also noted that the 7th is Our Lady of the Rosary... which I thought could lead to a week of attempting the rosary with the kids, and I liked the idea of the cut out rosary shown here, to work with the kids.
For St. Luke on the 18th I have 'make Christmas cards with Lucan quotes' which I believe came from the Catholic Culture website.
Then we have the All hallows/All Saints/All Souls celebrations at the end of the month/beginning of November. I am still working on those.
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Ooooh, this is the first I've heard of this, Rachel! I wish I could go. I'd have to get a doctor's clearance, but SOOO tempting. Maybe next year.
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Matilda wrote:
| For Sweet Karoline's birthday, you could do an animal themed celebration and explore face painting (animal faces of course). We did that one year for my kids. I want to try to make animal masks this year but if we don't I'll be doing the face painting again. |
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Ooohhh, maybe I need some of those Lyra theatrical pencils after all...
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Elizabeth wrote:
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| For Sweet Karoline's birthday, you could do an animal themed celebration and explore face painting (animal faces of course). We did that one year for my kids. I want to try to make animal masks this year but if we don't I'll be doing the face painting again. |
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Ooohhh, maybe I need some of those Lyra theatrical pencils after all... |
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I was thinking the same thing -- Aha! A reason to get those theatrical pencils. They are so tempting!
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Elizabeth wrote:
October 1 Feast of St. Therese (Katie's name is actually Kirsten Therese and Karoline's middle name is "Rose" because she is the answer to a St. Therese Rose Novena.:
Michael is Katie's godfather and he always brings her sweetheart roses ("little flowers"). We bake a white cake and decorate it with edible sugared roses. We serve some sort of herbal tea with rose hips. We always pray the rose novena. This year, my Our Lady of Guadalupe roses have been amazing. I've been drying them to make sachets on October 1.
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I love it! We're naming our baby after St. Therese. I also recieved a rose from the same novena. We also have an abundance of the Our Lady of Guadalupe roses. I'm not very creative, so I really appreciate these wonderful ideas.
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JennGM wrote:
Ooooh, this is the first I've heard of this, Rachel! I wish I could go. I'd have to get a doctor's clearance, but SOOO tempting. Maybe next year. |
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I'll keep my fingers crossed for you just in case, but yes, it is always there next year
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Elizabeth wrote:
October 1 Feast of St. Therese (Katie's name is actually Kirsten Therese and Karoline's middle name is "Rose" because she is the answer to a St. Therese Rose Novena.:
[COLOR=green] Michael is Katie's godfather and he always brings her sweetheart roses ("little flowers"). We bake a white cake and decorate it with edible sugared roses. We serve some sort of herbal tea with rose hips. We always pray the rose novena. This year, my Our Lady
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Elizabeth - I have been looking for edible sugared roses. Do you make them or buy them? Please let me know where from if you buy the. Saint Therese is Abby's patron saint and I looked everywhere for roses last year for our cake. (my cake decorating skills are non existent!)
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Marilyn,
If you are growing roses, you can make them now while the roses are in bloom and freeze them for later.
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Marilyn,
Do you ever get to Wegman's? They have a HUGE candy aisle, last year (I think around St. Valentine's Day) they had candy flowers. I will check next time I am there and see if they have them now.
You might be able to find chocolate coins there also, they are big right now because Pirates are big. I am pretty sure I saw chocolate coins at World Market.
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Elizabeth,
A long time ago, I listened to a cassette tape where Steven Wood's wife shared an idea for the feast of St. Francis. Strew lots of stuffed animals on the breakfast table that morning. Simple, and I'm sure Karoline will love it. :)
Perhaps even have a stuffed animal set at each table setting.
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Cay,
This is SO cute! I love this idea. The 4th is my dds birthday too, although she is turing 17, but she is a huge stuffed animal fan. This will be a great surprise! Thank you for the great idea!
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Hi all, I have been a lurker for quite a while. I found these boxes and thought they would be perfect for putting saint lessons/holy days of obl. in for each month and pretty enough that I can leave them out for decor among my book shelves. I think this is an organization method that just may work for us! (Holy Days just get away from me as far as lessons)
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Rachel, what are angel whispers?
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Did you mean these boxes, Jenn? The ones you linked to are teeny tiny...just big enough for a little Sculpey Clay symbol. The Feast Day boxes are CD storage box size. They'd probably work better.
I'm thankful that you found it helpful.
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Thanks, Katherine. I'm actually looking for boxes that I can fit 8 1/2 x 11 books in. (Well, I'm in my last third of another difficult pregnancy, so I have friends scouring stores for boxes that I can do this with.) I LOVE your blog, btw. It was the impetus to my finally joining this group and getting excited about school this year!
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Thanks be to God, Jenn. And I know you'll find much inspiration from these wonderful ladies.
Prayers for you and your new little one during these final weeks of pregnancy.
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jennthmg wrote:
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From Joanna Bogle's A Book of Feasts and Seasons. I am assuming it is a cookie recipe . DH doesn't like angel cake...
I am not linking her book because she has a brand new one coming out and you can see it halfway down this page.
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An idea for October 25--Martyrs of England and Wales, incl. Edmund Campion.
We bought some red and white tulip bulbs, which we'll plant/"bury" on that feast day. White for purity, red for martyrdom, and talk about the resurrection that will happen in the Eternal spring, just like these flowers will come to life again in spring.
There is also St. Nicholas Postgate, a martyred priest, who (before his martyrdom) planted Daffodills all over England. He's in More Once Upon a time Saints. This would be a great day to plant those bulbs in his honor.
I love the help I'm getting with these ideas!  Thank you all!
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Great idea CK...how nice to not keep worrying about when I'll plant my bulbs...now I have a great date to plan for it!
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