My 8-year-old daughter made peanut butter cookies yesterday morning. I ran to the grocery store on an early morning errand and came back to the smell of burnt cookies, wafting through the rooms of our home. Mmmm…. At least it kept me from eating them for breakfast....
Ever see a broken piece of clay? Remember old pottery classes at school where you left your project out too long? Or you rolled and rolled that clay and placed, carefully, layer upon layer to make that beautiful bowl only to have it fall apart? I am that dry, crusty...
I need to send a box of chocolates to my kids' Guardian Angels. Seriously. As a mother of a large family, I can humbly say that I cannot possibly watch over everyone. When someone asks, "How do you do it?" I laugh and honestly say, "I don't!" You see God wanted these...
Settle in, friends. Here's a long one... It's a late night. Worry has taken the night away. The possibility of the few precious drops of sleep that I so crave will soon drift away with the sunrise, and I cry out to my God for strength and help. Wrapped in the warmth...
I have been thinking a great deal about mercy these days. There is someone in my life who I am struggling to love authentically. In my mind, I have spoken words of mercy and from my lips it all sounds really great. But then the encounter comes and I am left in the...
One of the questions I often get from people is how do you teach your kids the faith? I love this question because it's like asking how do you bake a chocolate chip cookie? Everybody does it differently but each one tastes so good! Now, I am coming from this with a...
This year Pope Francis called for all Christians to embrace a year of mercy. To "rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them." If I had a meme, it would look something like me plotting ways for...
I am a firm believer in mothering. I mother from dawn till dusk and dusk till dawn. Mothering, it is what I did, what I do, and what I will be doing for the rest of my life. That switch that was turned on at the moment of conception, that forever gave me another...
"Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24: 13-35 I was in the grocery store today, and I saw a woman with a baby in a sling and 5 or so kids with a cart near her. I scanned...
Lesson 1. Don't ever tell God to yell so you will hear Him. That story in the Bible where it's the whisper passing by...dude, that is all you need. Trust me. We have been a homeschooling family for 8 years now and I love it. Homeschooling for me conjures up so...
