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  • Family Life,  Parenting,  siblings

    Mommy time, daddy time, and “dating” your kids

    By Jenny Uebbing

    One morning when our oldest, Joey, was around 4 years old, I was walking out the door for a meeting or a couple hours’ work at a coffee shop, leaving him and his then two younger siblings…

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  • About Me,  Catholics Do What?,  Family Life,  large family,  Marriage,  mental health,  motherhood

    5 months with the Fab 5

    By Jenny Uebbing

    How about some OG mommy blogging on this Friday Eve? I thought I’d update all my wonderful readers who have not yet abandoned ‘ye olde blog’ for the flashier and more fragmented pastures of Instagram with a…

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  • Family Life,  motherhood,  Parenting

    The secret whatever of motherhood

    By Jenny Uebbing

    First, the good. This has little to do with her birth order and more to do with her temperament, I suspect, but Zelie is an angelic baby. I know this because I have had 4 other babies…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  Sex,  Theology of the Body

    Living Humanae Vitae: stories of faithfulness to the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage

    By Jenny Uebbing

    How many times can she write about NFP? I can write about it as many times as it takes in order for me to internalize the seemingly simple concepts undergirding this most perennially misunderstood of Catholic teachings:…

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  • About Me,  birth story,  Family Life

    The birth of Zelie Grace, part deux

    By Jenny Uebbing

    (Part 1 here) Where were we? Oh yes, induction by house cat. After an animated 20 minute drive to the hospital, we arrived around 1 am and were swiftly checked in to the natural delivery suite. Apparently…

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  • About Me,  birth story,  Family Life

    The birth of Zelie Grace

    By Jenny Uebbing

    It has been almost 3 months since little Z made her debut earth-side, but it feels like a lifetime ago. (And, for the record, I have been writing this post for more than 3 weeks, so that bodes…

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  • About Me,  birth story,  Family Life

    And Zelie makes 7

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Lovely blog readers, I have a sweet little someone to introduce you to. After 9 long days of prodromal labor spanning Christmas and a multitude of other festivities, Miss Zelie (zay-lee) Grace Uebbing made her debut at…

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  • advent,  Catholic Spirituality,  Family Life,  feast days,  liturgical living

    An Advent bucket list for busy (tired) Catholic families

    By Jenny Uebbing

    We try to communicate the “not-yet-ness” of Advent to our kids without totally squelching the pleasant, anticipatory joy of Christmas on the near horizon, and I think we’ve achieved a moderately sane balance, though I’m sure we…

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  • advent,  Catholic Spirituality,  Family Life,  feast days,  liturgical living

    Have yourself a very little Advent

    By Jenny Uebbing

    In past years, in my enthusiasm to be liturgically aware and impart said knowledge to my offspring, I think perhaps I’ve been a little intense in the Advent department. We had a rigorous (laughs softly and stares…

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  • design + style,  Family Life,  house reno,  local talent

    The dinner table

    By Jenny Uebbing

    For most of our still-young marriage we’ve had a steady stream of ugly, hand-me-down tables holding court as sort of placeholders in our kitchen or dining room, marking the spot where “someday” we’d put a real farmhouse…

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