{"id":331,"date":"2007-12-06T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/12\/my-domestic-church-has-a-hole-in-the-roof.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:32:49","slug":"my-domestic-church-has-a-hole-in-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/12\/my-domestic-church-has-a-hole-in-the-roof.html","title":{"rendered":"My Domestic Church has a hole in the roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You all make me laugh, sharing True Confessions of Liturgically Slacker Parents.<br \/>\nI honestly do appreciate all those lovely blogs I made fun of &#8211; they&#8217;re pretty and inspiring and the parents who write them do a far, far better thing than I ever could. And would all cheerfully admit the chaos that lies behind the gauzy photos, I&#8217;ve no doubt!<br \/>\n(Although I will say that I remember reading recently &#8211; can&#8217;t quite recall where &#8211; on some Catholic mom&#8217;s blog that she had to actually stop reading a lot of homeschooling\/crafty kind of blogs because they were contributing to massive and continual feelings of inadequacy.)<br \/>\nSo speaking of inadequacy&#8230;I&#8217;ll continue the thread up here. You chime in.<br \/>\nLike the time I realized that Advent started tomorrow and I didn&#8217;t have an Advent calendar yet and the Catholic bookstores were all about to close and the regular bookstores could only be counted on for Bratz Advent Calendars. So Monday of the first week of Advent found me whistling past the Catholic bookstore where I&#8217;m known up to the Catholic bookstore where I&#8217;m not so known, skulking around the store, not finding what I needed and finally forced to ask, &#8220;Uh, do you have any Advent calendars left?&#8221; And being pointed to a basket in the corner. &#8220;What we have is back there&#8221; a basket which is located right next to a stack of pamphlets called, &#8220;How to Celebrate Advent&#8221; written by, you know &#8211; ME.<br \/>\nYeah, I remember that time. Considering it was Monday, I should.<br \/>\nYour turn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You all make me laugh, sharing True Confessions of Liturgically Slacker Parents. I honestly do appreciate all those lovely blogs I made fun of &#8211; they&#8217;re pretty and inspiring and the parents who write them do a far, far better thing than I ever could. 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