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  • .,  large family,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  pregnancy,  Pro Life

    The wonder of the last baby

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I hold my breath, waiting for another cry to pierce the midnight air. Ten, twenty seconds pass. Maybe I imagined it. Then a wail goes up like a fire engine and I push myself up and swing…

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  • large family,  motherhood,  school

    Kids at school, kids at home

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I have had the distinct pleasure – spoken without too much irony – of having my big kids home for spring break this week. When I glanced at the school calendar late last week and realized that…

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  • .,  decluttering,  design + style,  Family Life,  large family,  minimalism

    Big family minimalism + the life changing (yes, really!) magic of tidying up

    By Jenny Uebbing

    (First in a series of essays this month on minimalism and its particular relevance to family life.) (Update 1/14/19: Once I got a few episodes into the show, they introduced storylines involving cohabitation and homosexuality, so consider…

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  • About Me,  Family Life,  large family,  motherhood,  Parenting

    What my 5 kids taught me in 2018 (I should have taken better notes)

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Another retrospective New Year’s post, just what the internet needs! For your enjoyment I think I’ll break it into two installments since said internet has destroyed our collective attention span. You’re welcome. I sighed this morning, as…

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  • About Me,  budgeting,  Family Life,  large family

    The cost of having kids

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Let’s start by stating the obvious: finances are pretty personal, and as such, everybody’s circumstances are going to look a little different. What seems like an insane amount of risk/exposure looks like daily life for another family.…

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  • About Me,  keto,  large family,  Living Humanae Vitae,  motherhood,  pregnancy,  self care

    Postpartum recovery: PT, hormones and keto

    By Jenny Uebbing

    “9 months on, 9 months off” they say. Well, some of them say, anyway. I’ve found with each subsequent bebe those goalposts creep back a month or two, so let’s just say as Zelie rounds the bases…

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  • About Me,  budgeting,  Family Life,  large family

    That budget life

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I’ve talked about finances here on the blog a time or two, but I’m ready to talk a bit more frankly. After the financial fiasco that hit our sewer line last week drained our itty bitty emergency…

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  • large family,  motherhood,  Parenting,  toddlers

    Leaving baby land

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I just had a 5 –minute conversation with my seven –year –old where I used words like “extroversion, introversion, resources, and primary vocation.” He blinked his understanding to me and I really felt like we were having…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  guest post,  large family,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  pregnancy,  Sex,  Suffering

    Alleged miracles, hyper fertility, and the Cross {Living Humanae Vitae Part 5}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    You may already be familiar with Bonnie Engstrom’s story from her blog, “A Knotted Life.” If you are, then you know that her son, James Fulton, was stillborn. His allegedly miraculous return to life – through the…

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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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