Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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O Sacrament Most Holy

O Sacrament most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving, Be every moment Thine.  My dear Madeline, yesterday was the happiest and most important day of your spiritual life! Congratulations on making your First Communion. And remember this: As beautiful as the day was, your second, third, fourth, twentieth, hundredth, and beyond CommunionsRead the whole post >>

· April 30, 2012 · Tagged With: Letters, Madeline, Sacraments · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Post-Race Humility

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise, nor disgrace, because you know who you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.” – Mother Teresa of Calcutta as quoted in Donna-Marie Cooper O-Boyle’s Bringing Lent HomeRead the whole post >>

· February 29, 2012 · Tagged With: Humility, Madeline, Rachel · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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 >>

· February 10, 2012 · Tagged With: 7 Quick Takes, Books, Lent, Madeline, Pro-Life, Rachel · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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 >>

· February 4, 2012 · Tagged With: Homeschooling, Madeline · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

7 Quick Takes: The “Mommy has a crush on Jesus” and More Edition

— 1 — Thomas, who is just shy of five months, has made his modeling debut. — 2 — 7-year-old: Do you have a crush on anyone, Mommy? Me: Yup. 7-year-old: I think I know who. Me: Who do you think? 7-year-old: Jesus! 4-year-old: Yeah. It’s definitely Jesus. I actually had their daddy in mind,Read the whole post >>

· January 27, 2012 · Tagged With: 7 Quick Takes, Homeschooling, Madeline, Mary Elizabeth, Mom Humor, Rachel, Sleep (Or Lack Thereof) · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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