Social Media. We all have a love-hate relationship with it. It can provide so much good: inspiration, pray, uplifting ideas, laughs, and friendship. But the bad. It can suck us into a black hole of endless, fruitless comparison. It tends to show us only the happy, the...
"....He created us – in His image. He could have created us and plunked us down on barren land. But He didn’t. He chose to give us the most beautiful land His perfect imagination could create. In its wonder, it is vast and varying..." I am over at Catholic Sistas...
If there's one thing big families have in common, it's budget. We all have one. We generally go over it. And we basically wrestle with it all the time. How's a big, on a budget family going to keep up with all of our globe-trotting friends? We all see the pictures...
A few weeks ago, we pack our van with camping supplies, a few changes of clothes, and our little family of eight and we hit the road. We said we weren't stopping until we hit the ocean. We made some stops, but we finally dug our toes in the sand and looked out across...
I don't know if there is a plethora of books out there about the spiritual sides of miscarriage and infant loss. I haven't checked. But when this one fell into my lap and I was given the opportunity to review it, I jumped. Losing a baby, at any stage, is tough. It...
Our days have been crazy lately. Nothing earth shattering or different than any other family of active kids. You know how it is: calendars filled with more activities than hours, a car filled with wrappers and ziplock bags, because you're basically living out of it,...
It’s been a busy spring on the homestead. We’ve been starting seeds, building garden boxes, turning earth, raking, and mulching. And that’s just in the garden! It takes a team to accomplish all that we need to do. I love when we are all working as a family and I...
There's nothing like a strong parenting moment to help you more fully understand the Fatherhood of God. Kateri wakes up each morning demanding "a piece of bread with butter all around it". By which she means, lightly toasted bread with butter spread precisely on...
Life is messy. And overwhelming. Day after day, filled with the same mundane tasks, repeated ad nauseum. And where on earth is the sun?? That's depressing. Life is beautiful, joy-filled, and colorful, to say the least. Despite the fact that the calendar says...
For weeks, months even, my girls have been eagerly awaiting the new Beauty and the Beast. They acquired costumery, reviewed the 1991 animated film numerous times, and literally counted down the days. They weren't disappointed. True to the Disney of late, this was a...
One of the fun things about growning a garden, is experimenting with fun new vegetables and fruits. Last year, we grew some fun and beautiful new things. This year, we have a few new ones to try, as well. These chioggia beets were delicious and easy to grow, but my...
I am positively thrilled to see the arrival of February. It's a dull, dreary, cold month, for certain. But its arrival brings us one step closer to my favorite time of year - SPRING! February is also great, because you can pour over all of those seed catalogs you've...
