Encouragement for Moms

A Case for Happy & Sometimes Sappy Mom Blogs – Part I

Every once in awhile, I stumble upon a blog post ridiculing a whole website or a specific blogger for being too much like Pollyanna. Recently, in fact, I read a series of posts on a self-proclaimed Christian blog criticizing another Christian blog for not being “balanced” enough and for putting too positive of a spinRead the whole post >>

7 Quick Takes: The Hodge Podge Edition

It’s been a slow blogging month. It’s not that I’m in a writing rut. I’m replete with ideas, but I really just haven’t felt like diverting my limited energy stores to fleshing out meaningful posts. Every day I jot down thoughts here and there in journals, but nothing seems to go beyond the embryonic stage.Read the whole post >>

Motherhood is Not a Prison Sentence

Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas! Here’s one from the archives because I haven’t had much time to write lately (obviously). This is an old column (rather than a blog post). It originally appeared at Faith & Family LIVE! and more recently at the Catholic New Agency’s Catholic Womanhood website. I’m starting to raise sympathetic eyebrowsRead the whole post >>

Love Them Well

Imagine this: As you’re in the midst of school, you hear the toilet still running so you swing open the bathroom door to find a lake on the floor and a gushing waterfall coming from the commode. Later that same day your preschool daughter who is completely potty trained but sometimes has trouble pooping inRead the whole post >>

Interruptions and Intentions

Here’s one from the 2009 archives. I need this one right about now because the blasted time change has thwarted my early morning quiet time, and my little larks are popping out of bed way too early. “Try interrupting the meditations of someone who is very attached to her spiritual exercises and you will seeRead the whole post >>