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Married Saints and Blesseds Through the Centuries
By: Ferdinand Holbock

This is a great book that Dominic and I are reading together. It’s a book of the lives of, not just saints – but married saints. I never even really thought about before I saw the book, but realizing that you never really do hear about married saints. However, this books starts at the beginning with Our Blessed Mother, Mary & Saint Joseph and then continues through time telling the stories of the lives of holy married couples and their children and how they became great saints in the eyes of the Church. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone but especially to those of you who are married and looking for great examples to follow. We all read lives of the saints as children and adults to see how we can imitate their holy virtues but when it comes to entering a new state in life… you need new models to look to for their examples in living life in the same state you are striving to perfect; Thus, I think it’s a great find and hope you will give it a look.

Love of Cute Aprons and a Darling Strand of Pearls!

I have finally decided to come back to the blogger world as a happily married wife. I am finally settled in our new home in Kansas and am enjoying the married life immensly. I hope my friends who are interested in my life and what I am up to will enjoy reading my posts as I hope to keep up with it.

Some friends have blogs and have encouraged me to become a blogger too. I started one a few months ago, which some of you may have followed and may already know about, but I decided I needed one to reflect my new life as a wife and, God-willing, a mother someday. So, I called it "Aprons & Pearls" simply because I love cute aprons and I love pearls! However, I did name it that with a another meaning as well. I figure being a housewife you have your apron for cooking, cleaning and tending to the duties of the house but also wearing that darling strand of pearls to make you look and feel great while you're doing it. Of course the idea of wearing cute lil heels while you're vacumming is a great idea and one which I think would be neat to do, even though I don't, especially if the hubby was home while I was cleaning...but in general, no heels while vacuuming for me.