Some Bittersweet Chocolate Chips of Life for Y'all*

Hi guys!!!

This is a very hard post to write.

I have kind of put off doing this for a while because i wasn't ready to let go. But I have some sad news for you all.

Catholic Girl Stuff is shutting its doors permanently.


This was a really painful decision to make. But it had to be made because Kat and I have grown up and thus we have grown out of this blog. We don't want to give you half hearted and last minute posts. We want what we write to be meaningful and to mean something.


This blog will always have a special place in my heart. This blog was the start of many wonderful things. I have made many wonderful friends, we've had a lot of good memories together. :)

I hope you are all not too disappointed. You can still find me on my blog, The Singing Writer. And Kat.... Well I'll let her tell you what she's doing ;)


For the last time.

Lia, signing out.





*title stolen from MK

5 Songs I Have On Repeat

Hi guys!!



I have been listening to these on repeat for the last week :D




Glitter and Gold

Hey 3am

Istanbul

Put Your Head On My Shoulder

Silly Girl

Hope you enjoy!

Lia

Oi Peeps. It's April!

No, not the person. The month. Yesh. Some people. smh

MONTHLY PRAYER LIFE DEVOTIONS AND FOCUS POINTS

• The Passion of Christ
• Seven Sorrows of Mary
• Any area you think you need to focus on in your prayer life
• New beginnings

FEBRUARY'S HOLY DAYS, HOLIDAYS & HIGHLIGHTS



HOLY WEEK

THURSDAY APRIL 18:  Holy Thursday
FRIDAY APRIL 19:  Good Friday
SATURDAY APRIL 20:  Easter Vigil
SUNDAY APRIL 21: Easter Sunday

April 16: Saint Bernadette
April 23: Saint George
April 25: Saint Mark
April 27: Saint Zita
April 28: Saint Louis de Montfort
April 29: Saint Catherine of Sienna




MONTHLY GOALS

• Reflect on the passion
• Keep up lenten fasts/goals
• Read some of St. Louis de Montfort's writings

MINI PLAYLIST (ft. Lia)

Flowers in Your Hair--The Lumineers
Grow As We Go--Ben Platt
Don't Close Your Eyes--Keith Whitley
Saltwater--Damian McGinty
i'm so tired--Lauv, Troye Sivan


Kat

March Recap

Hello all!



Lia here!


March went pretty well for me, I would like to think :)


Life Things

I have a new niece! She's adorable :) Lots of phone conversations with various friends.




Recap of Monthly Goals for March

Read 5 spiritual books

ummmmm well I tried??? I only read one. The Life of St. Faustina 

Stick to Lenten resolutions

I am actually doing very well on this. I'm pretty surprised at myself. How is everyone doing on their's?




I hope y'all had a good month! Let us know in the comments!


Lia

5 Feel Good Songs

Something Wild by Lindsey Stirling

Atlas: Hearing by Sleeping At Last

Superheroes by The Script

Play That Song by Train

Yellow by Coldplay

Hope you enjoy!!

Lia

Hello March!

Hello!!!

It is I!


….




Not Kat.



:D


Kat couldn't write the beginning post so I'm doing it!


MONTHLY PRAYER LIFE DEVOTIONS AND FOCUS POINTS


Lenten devotions
Prayers for our country, president, etc.




MARCH'S HOLY DAYS, HOLIDAYS & HIGHLIGHTS


Mar. 6--Ash Wednesday
Mar. 17 St. Patrick's Day
Mar. 19. St. Joseph's Day
Mar. 24. The Feast of the Presentation

MONTHLY GOALS

Read 5 spirtual booksStick to Lenten resolutions




MARCH MINI PLAYLIST

If i'm being honest--dodie
New Morning--Alpha Rev
Rollercoaster--Bleachers
A Little Too Much--Shawn Mendes
Shake It Out--Florence and the Machine
Clean--Taylor Swift



Have a wonderful March :)

Lia

February Recap

Hello all!





2 down, 10 to go. We're already 3 months into the year. How? idk (yes this is going up 2 days before March, shhhh that doesn't matter) 






Life Things


Had several long conversations on the phone with Kat and MK (not together tho :(  )


Went out of town over the weekend and had a mini mental health retreat 10/10 would recommend.






Recap of Monthly Goals for February


-Make a point to focus on mental health/de-stressing  

I'd like to think I did this. Not as much as I would have liked :/


-Read something religious
 Check Check!






Hope you all had a good month! Let us know in the comments!!!


Lia

5 Things To Do On A Rainy Day

Hey guys!! 

Lia here. Where I am in Ohio, its been raining for 50 years.... What does the sun even look like?

(basically me right now)





1. Put on music and jump on your bed.

Yeah, I know. Its a very mature and adulty thing to do. I never said this was good advice :D But seriously, sometimes you just need to dance it out.



2. Journal.

Whether it be bullet journaling or just writing your thoughts out. It very therapeutic to do when its raining.



3. Re-read your favorite book with tea or coffee or hot beverage of your choice.

I personally recommend Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter (oh my gosh, are you shocked?) 





4. Watch a rom-com.

A really really cheesy one too. Letters to Juliet is my favorite :D



5. Organize your bookshelf.

AKA my favorite thing to do.






Alright that was my list! Talk to me in the comments! What are your favorite rainy day activities?

Lia

Goodbye January!

Hey guys!

Lia here!




January was kind of a hard month... I kept forgetting we had revived this, so I didn't remember to write anything. But I promise for the rest of the year to keep on my game!  I wrote many reminders on sticky notes all over my room :D




Blogging Things


We're Back////Welcome to January 2019!!!!

A Couple of Winter Book Suggestions





Life Things

Kat went back to college and abandoned me again... I worked a lot this month. Adulting is boring, I can tell you that. 

Talk to us in the comments!! How was your month?

Lia

We're Back!!!////Welcome to January 2019!

Yes that's us. WE'RE BACK!!!  I'm sorry that we let this blog to die. So many things just started happening at once and it got really crazy. But now we are back and not going anywhere. (if we do end up abandoning this again, feel free to hunt us down :D)


Hopefully 2019 will be a big year for Catholic Girl Stuff!! Now I have to run but I'm turning it over to Kat so she can welcome you into January!! I'll be back soon!!


Lia




ENTER KAT


Allo.

*ahem*

WELCOME BACK to Catholic Girl Stuff

AND 

WELCOME TO 2019!!!!! 

We're probably going to post a recap of last year to catch you all up on the crazy things that have been happening, but here are some of the big points: Lia has been blogging away and since she didn't abandon you all (*looks slightly guilty*) you kind of already know what she's been up to. (She also posted a very nice 2018 recap on her personal blog, The Singing Writer.)  I went to college! It was weird. I did good stuff. Ate 5+ dozen dounts by myself (Over the semester, not in one sitting) and also ate a embarassing amount of pizza... It was super weird to be living on my own, paying bills and shopping by myself. Like no. Stop. I cannot adult. And it was really sad going to church all by myself and never getting to see my besties. :( 

BUT NO WORRIES! I'M BACK ON BREAK AND CATHOLIC GIRL STTUFF IS NOT. BUCKLE UP AND GET READING FOR A RIDE INTO CRAZY LAND BECAUSE HERE WE GO!

-K 

Laying Low

Hey guys!

So I have a song to share with you!

I wanna put on a record

I never heard before

Shut off my phone and lock the door

Drink every word like a bottle of wine

Til my soul's so drunk it's passed out on the floor

Tonight I'm laying low

I'm laying low

In a world that moves so fast

We forget to take it slow

Don't wanna look in the mirror

Wonder where did she go

So I'm taking my time

Tonight I'm laying low

Don't wanna put on any make-up

Don't wanna brush my hair

Leave those high heels off my feet and just not care

Wanna dance to the rhythm of the raindrops

Falling on the rooftop now

They're easy to miss when everything's so loud

Tonight I'm laying low

I'm laying low

In a world that moves so fast

We forget to take it slow

Don't wanna look in the mirror

Wonder where did she go

So I'm taking my time

Tonight I'm laying low

Wanna take a deep breathe in

And just let it go 

Laying Low by Danielle Bradbury 

Lia

OUR FAVORITE DISNEY LOVE SONGS

 I See The Light -Tangled

Kat's Picks

I Wont Say I'm In Love- Hercules

Into The Open Air- Brave

Once Upon A Dream- Sleeping Beauty 

Love Is An Open Door-Frozen (still hate you, Hans)

Ma Belle Evangeline

Lia's Picks

 I See The Light-Tangled

You'll Be In My Heart-Tarzan

Beauty and the Beast-Beauty and the Beast

If I Never Knew You-Pocahontas

Baby Mine-Dumbo

-Kat & Lia-

Someday

Hello peoples :D


Remember how I said on my other blog that my favorite song from the Hunchback of Notre Dame musical was Someday?

Well here I am with the lyrics!!!

I used to believe

In the days I was naïve

That I'd live to see

A day of justice dawn

And though I will die

Long before morning comes

I'll die while believing still

It will come when I am gone

Someday

When we are wiser

When the world's older

When we have learned

I pray

Someday we may yet live

To live and let live

Someday

Life will be fairer

Need will be rarer

Greed will not pay

Godspeed

This bright millennium

On its way

Let it come someday

Someday

When we are wiser 

When the world's older

When we have learned

I pray

Someday we may yet live

To live and let live

One day

Someday. 

Soon.

Hope you enjoy! 

Lia

Awkward and Awesome: No. 6

 Awkward

•  Trying to whine about how little you got done and people are impressed instead. No. No that's not what I meant. Hear me whine!
  
  And its not like you feel great about it because people are amazed. You just feel disappointed in yourself because you didn't meet all your goals and now you can't even whine about it.
   
• Accidentally making a loud noise....in the middle of the night.....when all your family is asleep.
   
• Making instant potatoes or a box cake for dinner because people are over and they compliment you on the delicious potatoes or the lovely cake.
  
  well.....thanks.
   
• Getting chicken pox after 17 years of avoiding it
   
• Walking back into a room when you've been gone for five minutes and hearing the four year old say "You know how things sometimes fall all by themselves?"  (It was my phone. -K)
    
• When a cute boy and you get up from the communion rail at the same time and you do that awkward 'who goes first' dance. *face palm*
   
• Never finishing your awkward and awesome post so it is filled with things that happened months ago.
   
• Snorting a little too loudly as you laugh at your now really, REALLY old Awkward and Awesome post

Awesome

• Making instant potatoes because people are over for dinner and you don't have time to peel a entire bag of potatoes. And you just hope nobody will notice... And then they compliment you on them. 
  
  And I just sat there like...I feel very smug and also slightly evil.
  
   
• I have also made box cakes for parties AT OUR OWN HOUSE because I was lazy/procrastinated/was busy getting other stuff ready and then that cake was the first thing that was eaten and the thing that everyone came back for seconds for.
  
  Granted, I have a secret when making box cakes to make them extra yummy and moist but I can't share it. Tis a secret it tis!
  
  [No, it's not. I was out of vegetable oil, so I used melted coconut oil with my chocolate box cake and it ended up moist with just a hint of coconut. Enough that people could recognized SOMETHING was there, but not enough for the coconut haters to find it.]
   
• Clean hair on a windy day. (When you're facing INTO the wind)
   
• When your in a great mood and dancing around your room like a crazy to whatever is on the radio
   
• Doing things with your friends
   
• A good game of truth or dare. Let the shame and secrets flow
   
• An AMAZING story
   
• Or a good movie
   
• Or a web story (Like Emma Approved)
   
• Or this song!!!
  
  
  
  -Kat
   and Lia-
   

Where Did The Time Go?

Suddenly it's 2018

This year has just passed by so quickly. I don't even know where to start. 

Our little blog has 13 followers now! Thank you guys for sticking with us. I know we have been posting much lately but with school and generally growing up things, its hard to find time to sit down and write a post. 

I certainly am going to post more this coming year. :D :D 

Kat and I have exciting things happening this year. This year, we are directing our church's Epiphany play. Which is a little terrifying!!! 

WE'RE GRADUATING THIS YEAR!!!!!

Who decided it would be a good idea to release us on the world???? (jk jk jk) Then this fall, Kat will be headed off to college and me....... I have no idea. It has caused me many a gray hair just thinking about it. My hair is practically white!!!!!!!! (I kid, I kid) Still brown :)

Have a Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!

Lia




Remember when staying up until Midnight used to be a big thing? Wow.

Things That Happened This Year: 

• Catholic Girl Stuff turned 1!
   
• We have 8k Pageviews... WOW
   
• We both totally forgot to post on this blog.
   
• Lia turned 18! YIKES
   
• I applied for different colleges (I feel so old...)
   
•  We reached our 100th post...and then some
   
• Drank WAAAAY to much coffee
   
• Played pranks
   
• Spent time with friends (though not nearly enough)
  
  
  And since Lia started, that means I finish. Which means I have to break the not so happy news... Catholic Girl Stuff will be on hiatus for the month of January.
  (Don't worry, Lia will probably still be posting over at Musical Writings....We all know she's your favorite anyways)
  
  
  -KAT
  and LIA
   

 

ENFP's are the BEST!!!!! (don't let Kat tell you anything different :))

Hey guys!

I am here today to tell you about ENFP's. AKA me!

(Accurate)

• Natural leaders, but don't like to control people

• See meaning in everything

• I don't hold grudges, I remember facts

• Have a strong need to be liked

• We can talk our way out of anything :)

• Constantly talking to ourselves

• Hate. Being. Pressured. To. Make. Decisions. 

• Tend to withdraw to process hurt feelings in private

• Human Golden Retriever 

Me and Kat

Hope you enjoyed!!

Lia

Music of the Week #18

Hi guys!

Haven't done one of these in a while :)

The theme today is.......

Eighteen!!! (which is funny, cause its #18, i promise i didn't plan that)


Of course you're all probably wondering... why 18??

Well.........let's just say its because I am no longer 17 :D




Eighteen

When You Are 18

Ok i couldn't find a video for this one, YouTube hates me right now. But its by Celtic Thunder so go look it up :)


What About 18

Eighteen Inches

Enjoy!!!

Lia

So, Um NaNoWriMo

Hi guys!!


NANOWRIMO IS ALMOST UPON US. EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

Ok ok, calm down.

You can get through this. I promise you, it hopefully won't be that bad.

So the question that's (maybe) going through your minds.

Am I doing NaNoWriMo?

The answer: Sort of???


I'm not working on my novella this November. I am not writing it anymore. I realized that I am not a novel writer, that's not my calling. But that's okay, I've accepted it. Let me know in the comments if you want me to do a post about what my novella was going to be about and my characters!

Instead, I am going to be working on my songs. I am planning on getting as many written as possible. Hopefully, my muse won't be off in lala land doing who knows what.

I am signed up on the website, so shoot me a message! My username is Lia99


Have a great NaNo everyone!!!

Lia

Dear Hate/////For All The Victims Of The Las Vegas Shooting

Dear hate

I saw you on the news today

Like a shock that takes my breath away

You fall like rain, cover us in drops of pain

I'm afraid that we just might drown

Dear hate

Well, you sure are colorblind

Your kiss is the cruelest kind

You could poison any mind

Just look at mine

Don't know how this world keeps spinning 'round and 'round

You were there in the garden, like a snake in the grass

I see you in the morning staring through the looking glass

You whisper down in history and echo through these halls

But I hate to tell you, love's gonna conquer all

Dear hate

You were smiling from that Selma bridge

In Dallas, when that bullet hit and Jackie cried

You pulled those towers from the sky

But even on our darkest nights

The world keeps spinning 'round

You were there in the garden, like a snake in the grass

I see you in the morning staring through the looking glass

You whisper down through history and echo through these halls

But I hate to tell you, love's gonna conquer all

Dear love

Just when I think you've given up

You were there in the garden when I ran from your voice

I hear you every morning through the chaos and the noise

You still whisper down through history and echo through these halls

And tell me love's gonna conquer all

Gonna conquer all

This is not my song. This song is by Maren Morris. She released it after the shooting. Please pray for all the victims and their families. 

-Lia

Whaaaa? It Is October?

Hi guys!

September was a fun month! Kat and I both started senior year the last week of August. Wheee!
We did not do well with posting this month. Sorry! But October should be better :)

Stats:

Of All Time: 6,718

Last Month: 497

Our Five Biggest International Viewers

United States

Spain

Germany

Russia

Thailand

Five Biggest International Viewers of all Time

Russia (In Russia! Land of Yesterday! #Anastasia)

Ireland

United States

Australia

Germany (haha take that Kat!)

Posts This Month

August In Review And Here Comes September/////NO! I'M NOT READY! (Dual Post)

Quotes From Musicals That Give Me All The Feels//////I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING (Lia)

Time Flies When You're Panicking And Don't Want To Grow Up (Dual Post)

The Green Fields of France (Lia)

Sooooo

Just cause I can, I'm going to end with a bad joke

Why can't you give Elsa a balloon?




........


Because she'll let it go!



(hahahahahahahahaha)


LIA

Da Da Dah!

It is OCTOBER!

FASHION BOOTS! LATTES! work. School. Flu season. I am cold.

Our theme this month is a mixture between The Rosary and Fatima. 

Because the 13th is the 100th anniversary of the day the sun danced! 

Major Feast Days: 

Oct 4: Saint Francis of Assisi

Oct 5: Saint Faustina 

Oct 7: Our Lady of the Rosary

Oct 13: 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MIRACLE AT FATIMA

 Oct 15: Saint Theresa of Avila

Oct 18: Saint Luke

Oct 24: Saint Raphael

Oct 29: Feast of Christ the King   

Oh, and do you know why you shouldn't write with a broken pencil? 

Because it is pointless. 

(Much like my jokes) 

-Kat

WHO HAD THE BETTER JOKE? TELL US IN THE COMMENTS!

(Ps. I a, just a liddy bit competitive, in case you haven't guessed)