Kate’s Blog – Page 48

7 Quick Takes: The “Of Breast & Women,” Discernment, & More Edition

— 1 — Thank you to everyone for your prayers on behalf of my mom. The recovery has been agonizing, but this was expected. My dad sent me a photo of her scar. It’s a nasty and Frankenstein-like. Yesterday I posted a photo of it onto Facebook. The image was really small on my phone,Read the whole post >>

Healed

At 7:30 a.m. EST tomorrow, my mom will be under the knife. She has brain surgery scheduled for Monday to – we hope and pray – cure her trigeminal neuralgia. After exhausting her medication options and dealing with some pretty awful side effects (e.g., loss of vision, personality changes, extreme lethargy, etc.), she decided toRead the whole post >>

Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming…

I’m back to mom blog business as usual where I annoy you with sharing the silly things my kids do or say. Today I’m even featuring samples of my child’s excellent homeschool education. The Star Wars obsession is not letting up. Not at all as made evident by the doodles around Madeline’s spelling work. It’sRead the whole post >>

Let’s Talk About Komen (& Why I’m Leaving the BlogHer Network)

I drafted this post last night. I should have published it then because now it seems like pro-lifers such as myself (and many but not all of my readers) are too late, or Planned Parenthood is too much of a bully. I just saw this article. Komen is backing off its decision to defund PlannedRead the whole post >>

Mom’s Got Talent

I have two new homeschooling mom-friends who have offered to give educational tours of their respective businesses to my children. One oversees an organic farm that also serves as a prayer and mission base. The other owns an Italian restaurant. I joked that I didn’t have anything interesting to offer in exchange, but one ofRead the whole post >>