Mommy Choices

Guess who’s missing Mass today?  I blog about it over at Mommy Monsters today.  I’ll try to make the afternoon services, but realistically it may be difficult to get away. Sarah gets really clingy when she’s sick. Daddy just will not do. A selfish part of me wishes Sarah had found a different time to [...]

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“What Do You Do?” A Mother’s Pondering

Today at Mommy Monsters, I posted a little introspective (hopefully  not too self-indulgent) bit on personal transitions and changes. For many of us, the innocent question “What do you do?” is not as simple as it sounds. So many of us have lives that are fragmented, bits and pieces of obligations and expectations that never [...]

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An Unexpected Blessing

Today I was posting a review on GoodReads, and came across this lovely review of my book “Behold Your Mother” by Clare Duroc (I don’t believe I know Clare personally, which is what makes this review such an unexpected blessing.) If you are looking for a little encouragement in your call to motherhood, Clare offers it [...]

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“The Pregnancy Pact” — a Lifetime Movie

Tonight I watched “The Pregnancy Pact” on Lifetime Television. With one in six teenage girls becoming pregnant before age 20, the main premise of the movie — that the expectations of pregnant teenagers seldom turn out the way they thought, and that teens need more information from their parents in order to make informed choices [...]

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Today @ CatholicExchange: The Faithful, Wounded Heart

Have you ever felt the sting of a wounded heart years after love’s counterfeit has passed from your life? Most of us — unless we married our first love, and early in life, can relate to this. In her book The Night’s Dark Shade, Elena Maria Vidal explores this subject through an unexpected perspective: the [...]

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Wee Cook Wednesday: Motel Cookery

Happy Martin Luther King Day! Okay, it’s almost over now — at our house, MLK Day is also Sarah’s birthday — and I have a moment to write a bit about the past few days, which I spent (a) with my Sweetie, (b) and our kids, (c) and WITHOUT the computer. Ah, the sheer bliss [...]

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Weekend Ponderings: Are You Happy in Your Marriage?

This week at Mommy Monsters, I posted a reflection on the three directions — past, present, and future — the evil one directs his arrows at our hearts. As I write this, I’m packing up the car to take a few days with my family, playing at Kalahari Water Park!  Please pray for us, for [...]

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