In the past week, I have received more emails and comments from readers than I have in the last year and a half as a regular contributor at Catholic Exchange and in my years as a blogger. People from all over the world have written to me about their experiences with miscarriage. More often than …
Small Success Thursday: My Amazing Husband
I am a firm believer that women should compliment their husbands in public and voice struggles either in private with their husband or with a trusted friend if counsel is needed. If people hear me griping about my husband constantly it will change their view of him and that is wrong. Not to mention that …
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Celebrating Our 4th Wedding Anniversary
Today is my 4th wedding anniversary. It has been an amazing and interesting ride. I have learned more in the past 4 years than I did in the 29 previous years. I know more about my self; my strengths and my weaknesses. Marriage is a vocation because it is a path to holiness. As I …
7 Quick Takes for this Gray and Occasionally Sunny November Day
Today I am linked up over at Jennifer Fulwiler's Conversion Diary for 7 Quick Takes. Join us with your quick takes for the week here: 1. My husband and I bought our first home together in May of this year. We actually ended up in the town where our parish is located (long story as …
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Small Success Thursday November 14, 2013
It is really easy to get to this point on Thursday and wonder if I have any small successes this week. They are there I just have to find them through my own critic. First, Monday was Veteran's Day. I am a US Navy Veteran and I decided to enjoy the day. I went out …
Michaela’s Inquiring Mind
Michaela continues to amaze me on a very regular basis, pretty much daily. She has progressed to full sentences. In fact, she makes a point of using full sentences now. She is also in the question stage. Inquiring minds want to know, about everything. Her favorite question is: "What is it?". She asks me this …
Joy in Motherhood on Hallowe’en
Motherhood continues to amaze me in wonderful new ways. Yesterday was Hallowe’en. My husband and I had found a bee costume at a local consignment shop. I put it on her in the early evening last night, and my heart melted. She was adorable! I am sure she will be embarrassed by this in the …
Thanks Be to God
It is easy for me to get worked up about the evil going on in the world, or about how I fail often at being the mother and wife God wants me to be. By becoming distracted by all of the darkness, or by allowing a self-loathing dialogue to run rampant in my mind, I …
Forgiveness and Abundant Blessings
A couple of weeks ago one of my junior high students in my religious education class at church asked me an interesting question. She wanted to know if God sometimes does not give us what we want. I told her that sometimes he does not give us what we want because it is not what …
Timeless Sundays
Life gets busy. The pace seems to be dizzying some days and weeks. I looked at the calendar yesterday and could not believe that it is almost October. And while the sunlight tells me it is autumn, I cannot help but wonder where summer has gone? Did I sleep through it? Perhaps I was living …
Swimming the Depths 