Lent for the Married
Andrew and I were passing ideas back forth—sweets, alcohol, eating between meals. What to give up for Lent? I could do the typical, but I want this year to be...
Weekly Wallpaper // 95
It's a gloomy day here in Los Angeles as I write this. So many things are up in the air in my life, a new change seems to becoming at...
A Glimpse Into Fat Tuesday from a New Orleans Native
When we are talking liturgical year, I know Fat Tuesday is the term most people use to describe the day before Ash Wednesday. But as a New Orleans native, for...
Love is Rooted in Freedom
I recently finished a short, ambiguous novel called Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous (yes, the author remained anonymous!). This was, unfortunately, yet another memoir-type account of obsessive, unhealthy...
From Mixed Tapes to School-Supply Shopping Dates: Our Romance After All These Years
There used to be coffee and hot cocoa dates (because up until last fall, I didn't drink coffee). There were flowers. Pearl earrings. Homemade steak dinners (cooked by Fence, of...
Weekly Wallpaper // 94
Tara never disappoints us with the beauty that she creates! Today she made your free downloadable wallpaper with Psalm 119:18 // "Open my eyes that I may consider the wonders...
Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It
After navigating the early years of parenting, our family has solidly entered middle-childhood. Although the frustrations of potty-training and sleepless nights have shifted to arguments over bedtimes and screen time,...
10 Ways to Hygge as a Catholic
We are knee-deep in winter. Some of you may literally be knee-deep in winter’s white wonder. But the bright, holly jolly tidings of the Christmas season have completed their cycle...
Ladies, You Are Beautiful
I read quite the post recently, from a woman who asserted that women's ministries tell women too often that they are beautiful. Is this a thing? It must be a...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 31
Here we are, at the end of January. The month has been at turns fruitful, trying, and hopeful for me. We have another month to pray in this Ordinary Time...
5 Myths About Catholic Schools
It’s Catholic Schools Week, so I pray you’ll indulge me. We’ve been Catholic school parents for more than a decade and with five kids currently enrolled, high school to kinder,...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 30
Tomorrow is the end of the month. Today gives us the chance to flood each other's days with prayers as we approach the end of this journey together. Lift up...
