Fasting and Adding In my previous post I talked a lot about fasting from food. Giving something up for the Lent season is another way of fasting. Here are a few…
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Growing up Catholic, Lent was a big deal. When I was a child I viewed Lent differently than I do now. The traditions of the Catholic Church were lost on me.…
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Derek sent me an article the other day. The title read, “Moms of 3 Are More Stressed Than Those with Any Other Number of Children.” Checks out. I replied. Full transparency,…
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Winter Dream List My favorite song to write to is called “Winter Snow,” by Audrey Assad and Chris Tomlin. It’s beautiful. It calms me, refocuses my mind and heart on God’s…
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During the last 14 years, I have fought hard to forgive Landon’s biological father. It’s been a long road. This week Landon wrote an an autobiography for school, and I was…
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Growing up our house was all about Santa at Christmas. And it was magical. Truly. We did go to Mass on Christmas Eve, and we always had a beautiful nativity. Jesus…
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Traditions and “Dream Lists” are my favorite. I told my husband, Derek, once that I want our traditions to be something like a legacy for our children. I want our traditions…
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Growing up I was raised in the Catholic Church. I don’t identify as Catholic anymore. If I’m honest, I still feel uncomfortable in a Catholic Church. It still feels like an…
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I took the lead and explained, at a ten-year-old level, that I had gotten pregnant at 21 and for a while it was me and him. I talked about Derek’s love…