I had a lovely Mother’s Day weekend and I hope all you other moms out there did as well. On Saturday, we hosted a Mother’s Day brunch for both grandmothers. Madeline made watering can cards (out of cardstock) and tucked seed packets in a slit I created with a sharp knife. We then wrote “SowingRead the whole post >>
Magazines Catholics Can Feel Good About
I’ve always been a magazine junkie, but I’ve been disillusioned in recent years by the secular media offerings for women. Even the most innocuous women’s publications on newsstands today too often marble in thoughts and ideas that go against my Catholic belief system. Take for an instance an article I read in a mainstream parentingRead the whole post >>
Living Up to my Worthy Calling
“I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love…” (Ephesians 4:1-2) Being a loving, Catholic wife is my calling, but I’m not sure I always live in a “manner worthyRead the whole post >>
The Mother Ship
Goodbye, cramped sedan. Hello, Mother Ship. Last Saturday Dave and I became the proud owners of a minivan. Well, at least I became the proud owner of our sleek, silver Honda Odyssey. In Mommy Land, I am now considered cool or in the very least practical. Dave, on the other hand, might get a fewRead the whole post >>
Making Peace With My Body
Like too many women, body angst has been a stubborn companion of mine. I suffered from bulimia and anorexia as a teenager and later had a relapse in college that landed me in counseling for over a year. But even when my clinical eating disorder was reigned in, the scale – instead of my GodRead the whole post >>