Double or Nothing
The past 3 months have among the strangest of my adult life, so you’ll have to excuse my lengthy absence here. I’ve also been the recipient of a bizarre and profound circadian rhythm shift which now has…
If it makes me happy, is it God’s will?
If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad? Sheryl Crow I have this little prayer card that came from I don’t know…
The working mother
She rises at dawn to lace up her running shoes, logging hard-won miles in the gray light of morning. She is up before the sun with a sick baby, a nursing baby, an anxious kindergartener, making toast…
Thoughts from summer break + the 1 travel mistake you probably don’t want to make (or do you?)
Friends, it’s been a minute or two. Directly after confidently announcing the blog would not die, I sort of … let it. Or let it lie fallow, anyhow. But here I am now, popping in at the…
Accepting Holy Week
Lent can be a strange liturgical season for mothers. There is much wisdom and tradition to impart, and also it’s pretty much impossible to make it to stations of the cross, because 7 PM is a time…
The ache of the oldest child
This morning I took the 3 younger kids to Mass, and it was neither our best nor worst performance to date. Zelie squirmed and screamed and needed to be escorted out a couple times, and Luke too,…
‘Back in February,’ an unexpected pregnancy led to unimaginable joy
“If you had asked me before this happened, ‘was I pro-life?’ I would have said yes. I was raised Catholic. We went to Mass. I even went to a March for Life in Chicago once. So, absolutely.…