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Archives for March 2013

Five Favorites (March 27, 2013)

Five Favorites (March 27, 2013)

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So, I’m putting a pinky toe out into the deep to join Moxie Wife’s new Five Favorites link up. I…
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Thoughts on a diary

Thoughts on a diary

Book reviews· Humble Handmaid

I was asked to do a book review this spring of Cynthia Montanaro’s just-published book, Diary of a Country Mother. I’m…
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Viva il papa!

Viva il papa!

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Welcome, Pope Francis, our new “papa”! As my friend and radio co-host Staci exclaimed yesterday on the show, “I love…
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Happiness roundup

Happiness roundup

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You know what this blog needs lately? Some adorable pictures of my munchkins!:)  Comin’ right up!  New haircut, courtesy of…
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A new take on old advice

Interior Life· Motherhood

“Just take things day by day” always seems to be popular advice when we’re going through something tough in our…
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All I really need to say “yes”

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 “Holiness is forged through a constant interplay between God’s grace and the correspondence of man.” ~St. Josemaria, Friends of God God…
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Pep talk

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“Sad? … Because you have fallen in that little battle? No! Be cheerful! Because in the next one, thanks to…
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Taking up your (real) crosses

Taking up your (real) crosses

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St. Josemaria’s Way of the Cross is a great little book (a pamphlet really) with short, hard-hitting reflections on the…
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I'm a south Louisiana girl, Catholic wife, writer, speaker, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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