My mom is too busy so I am writing this.
Our family has been looking for a house for the past few months. We tried getting a bank owned one but they refused our offer a few weeks ago. BUT!!! Today we found another house on *****(no we will not tell the general public where we might live)

My mom likes the kitchen
I don’t see why but maybe that’s because I don’t cook...

It does have a forest in the backyard that makes me glad for I love forests (In the in the short time we were looking at the house I found a bunny, a tortoise, and a tick, lovely company right?).
I think this is the first house everyone liked.
Please pray that they will take our offer and we get this house. Of course we are praying for God’s will.
-Inch

Why I am Homeschooled

I am Home schooled, I think you know that by now.

There is a reason I am home schooled, because of bad influences... Including the mind numbing influences of stupid people. (Why this is underlined I do not know)
yes these are from actual papers*

*Authentication is not certain

Eternal Rest

Today we celebrated Rebekah's short life. She was 6 1/2 yrs old, we had the privilege of knowing only after she was diagnosed with cancer. We meet her family through some good friends. To know her has been a blessing. She is a girl who made friends everywhere she went.
I visited her before her Make a Wish trip to Disney. I went over to pray over her with the Relic of Blessed Mother Theresa. It was a powerful experience, very profound. She asked me if I would come back with the rest of the family, and I told her I would after the trip.

Here is what Rebekah's dad wrote soon after her death.

Our beloved daughter and sister, Rebekah Anna, has been called home
by our Lord. She made her Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World and on
Monday met Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Belle. She also met three
pixies, Tinker Bell, Fawn, and Iridessa.
On Wednesday morning she was showing signs of distress and we went
to the hospital. The doctors and nurses did all they could to make her
comfortable. Bekah watched The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and fell
asleep during Alice in Wonderland.
Rebekah died peacefully, in her sleep, at about 3:15 am on Thursday,
June 25th at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando,
Florida.
Thank you to all for your help, support, prayers, and love. A special
thanks to those who were able to come and visit. Bekah loved to be
with people and to have company.
Bekah’s was (and still is) a spirit of sun and joy and beauty and play
and fun. To honour that spirit, we ask that people coming to the
viewing and funeral wear "happy" colors, and help make this a
celebration of her life. Bekah did not like to see other people sad.

I've been to many funerals, but today was especially difficult, something about a child funeral strikes a different chord. Please pray for Bekah's family.
-Mullu Mom

Little Monkey

"what happened?"
"GMAC happened."

I have been hearing those words A LOT. GMAC is a very curious child, she likes to do anything and go anywhere. Including out the door...which she just learned to open. Yesterday she just opened the door and walked outside, she is just 13 months, boy are we in trouble!

At least there is hope.

This little monkey was imitating us during prayer, it is even cuter in person. She even tries to bless herself, although Holy, Son, Spirit, Father is not the order :)

-Inch

"Thurepe" Therapy

On Father’s day I suggested we play Thurepe( a card game from Kerala.) It is also known as 28. Growing up this is what we all did for fun. I thought it would be enjoyable for old time sakes; it turned out to be therapy for my dad’s recovery. My dad was always good at the game, he usually won. Most of the time while we were there, my dad looked week and tired. It was so cute to see his smile as he was winning; it was really therapy for all of us. The boys and Cruzan Dad caught on to the game quickly, and I am looking forward to many games with the family.

-- Mallu Mom

We played almost every afternoon.

"U" being coached by his grandpa.

The winning smile!

We're Back

We are finally back home after a round trip of almost 4,000 miles. I just want to sleep in my own bed!! I can't really complain about the trip, the kids were really great! We had some really good conversations and saw some beautiful country!
--CrucianDad

sorry we're new

We are still new to this blogging thing so our posts are coming out in spurts and a little out of sync (Ex we are still posting about our trip when we are just about back home) hopefully when we get home we will get on a better posting schedule

The Great Trip -- Pt 2.5 (another pit stop)

Well the next leg of our trip took us through Baton Rouge. And c'mon you don't pass even near Louisiana with out having some Cajun food! We found this nice little place The Jambalaya Shoppe it was tucked away in a strip mall right off the highway. The food was great I loved the seafood "JAM" as they called it. Mullu mom and Rose loved the Gumbo. Inch feasted on the fried catfish and "U" just loved their Crawfish Pie. We like the place so much that we even stopped on our way back up from Texas

--Crucian Dad

Stop on bye if you are going through Baton Rouge!

On our way to full bellies!

The place also had some great atmosphere!

The Great Trip -- Pt 2

After our pit stop at EWTN we kept on moving until we got to Jose's house in Jackson.
Jose treated us to a great dinner of rice and beans. We ate and caught up on old times.

Mystical Rose Trying to go to bed with a belly full of rice and beans

The next morning we went to mass with Jose before we headed off to Houston. It was just like old times, you never realize how much you miss someone until you see them again and then have to leave for the second time.

After Mass G-MAC wanted to give a high-five to the statue of Mother Mary

The family posing with Jose

-- Cruzan Dad

The Great Trip -- Pt 1.5 (the pitstop)

Well for the next leg of our trip we were going to stay with our friend Jose in Jackson Mississippi. We got to know Jose at daily mass (while he lived in Maryland) and through the Cursillo movement.
Mullu Mom realize that halfway between us and his house was Birmingham Alabama. So whats so special in Birmingham you ask? Why the world headquarters of ETWN that's what!!

This is what greets you as you get there

G-MAC enjoyed the stained glass windows of outside chapel

I love Religious with a sense of humor!

We tried to time our arrival to make it in time for the noon mass at Our Lady of Angels chapel. We actually managed to get there early so we spent a little time in the gift shop.

The kids thought that these sports rosarys were really cool

we thought about getting this for the car since Inch will start driving this year

The chapel was BEAUTIFUL. I thought that it was a little funny that this little chapel had a bunch of servo controlled cameras. We were told that the 7 AM service gets televised and the noon mass is mainly to allow the employees there to go to daily mass.

The whole family really like this sign outside of the chapel

This picture does not do the chapel justice. It is truely breathtaking

-- Crucian Dad