Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷

Catholic wife of 🧔🏻 & mom of 👩👱🏻‍♀️👨‍🦰👱‍♂️👩🏻👱🏻‍♀️ who never has enough time for her hobbies.

[love drops @lovedropx]

Me and my friends getting left behind by AI

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

@Zo_bo_fo_sho Said bookshelves in a room shared by 3 kids.

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

@Zo_bo_fo_sho As an avid book thrifter with a million kids (6) I think it's such an odd thing to say to someone. Like, one of my kids' rooms has two tall shelves full of books. It's cold and rainy/snowy here a good chunk of the year so there is lots of cozy reading time happening.

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

@cecsquared Happy Birthday!

My son turned 11 today!
And my nephew turned 7!
And my father-in-law turned, well, another year older!

Anyway, it's a great day for a birthday!

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

My Star Wars Day birthday boy *finally* wanted a Star Wars themed cake!

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

Anyway, huge houses where everyone has their own room/bathroom are very American; most families worldwide live quite closely. I sometimes dream of a larger space (a kitchen w/ more than 5 cabinets!), but our cozy home suits us well. It can be tricky, but it's not impossible. 4/4

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

I'm seeing all this discourse about how families with children *require* very large houses. I live with my husband & 6 kids in ~1250sqft. We have 3 smallish bedrooms & an extra room (the study) we double as a guest room. We have a full basement for laundry/storage. 1/

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

Also, I seem to possess the ability to arrange & rearrange furniture in a way that even when adding more pieces into a space, I can create extra floor space. During covid, with 4 kids & husband hybrid schooling/working from home, it wasn't easy or ideal, but wasn't horrible. 3/

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

So far today it has:

•rained
•snained
•snowed
•graupelled
•sleeted

and the sun has shone blindingly brightly between more grey gloomy clouds.

Are the conditions right for thundersnow? Fingers crossed!

#springtimeinrochesterny

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

Jesus to his disciples today:

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

Easter Vigil gang, checking in! I got to play recorder & read the 5th reading (not at the same time!), my 8yo read the Epistle & did great, & all the kids stayed awake the whole Mass for the first time!

Christ is Risen, alleluia!

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Everyone in Japan knows "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver.

We cover it all the time so I hope our American friends can appreciate it.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

The NBC MLB scorebug with a beautiful tribute to Hayao Miyazaki.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i don't buy mayonnaise from costco. i buy mine from samurai, a japanese workwear label that produces mayonnaise from the leftover cotton seeds they get from their denim production. thus it's menswear mayonnaise

IG selfedge

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

Just a mom
slapping packing tape over the split i just stitched up in my daughter's winter jacket
praying it will hold
for two more months
until the threat of snow and frost
has passed

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

@Zo_bo_fo_sho which she herself joined after her husband's death. Context is important! I think both the angry and the "hurr durr women belong in the kitchen" folks have it wrong here. The quote is her *acceptance* of God's will over her own in a difficult way. (3/3)

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

@Zo_bo_fo_sho that God's will meant she was where she needed to be at that moment. She spent 40 years taking care of her household *and* the poor in the community. She turned her household into a hospital to tend the sick and dying. She formed a community of women without formal vows (2/3)

[Jessica Messica | 🌸🕊🪻Alleluia!!🏵🐑🌷 @CraftWriteFlaut]

Lord have mercy