Happy Memorial Day everyone! Hallow has a great article for today, which includes “Catholic Blessings and Prayers for Memorial Day Remembrance.” I will keep all of your loved ones who died while serving in the military in my prayers today!

In my relative quiet over the past couple of years blog-wise, I missed a lot of birth announcements I absolutely would have wanted to share with all of you! I’m determined to get caught up this summer! Today is a belated birth announcement for Grace Patton’s youngest: her ninth baby on earth, the handsomely named … Felix Isidore!

His Instagram birth post is here, his baptism post is here (he was baptized on the feast of St. Isidore the Farmer! So awesome!!), and he recently celebrated his first birthday (here)!

Congratulations, as always, to Grace and Simon and big sibs Grace, Sebastian, Theodore, Phoebe, Bosco, Abraham, Clement, and Iris (birth announcements linked — I’ve been a Camp Patton fan for a long time!), and happy belated birthday Felix!!

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