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in Faith, Family · April 12, 2022

Celebrating Holy Week with Your Family

We have entered the most solemn and holiest days of the Liturgical Year, Holy Week. As our Lenten journey comes to an end, we enter more fully into the suffering, passion and glory of our most beloved Lord. Now just days away from the Sacred Triduum. We began our week with Palm Sunday, praising and glorifying God as he made his way up to Jerusalem. Spreading cloaks and palm branches on the road to welcome the King of Kings. “The whole multitude of his disciples began to praise God aloud with joy for all the mighty deeds they had seen.” Luke 19:37. Moments later in the liturgy we hear the narrative of the Passion of ... view the post

in Faith · March 25, 2022

Giving Our Fiat

Today is the beautiful Solemnity of the Annunciation, the Angel Gabriel appearing to Mary and announcing that she would give birth to Jesus. Mary giving her Fiat, her yes, that changed all of humanity. A yes, without understanding, without knowing what the future held or how it would all come into being. As parents we are each asked to give our own fiat with every child we welcome into the world, every sleepless night, meal made, laundry folded, cold dinner eaten, paycheck worked for, etc. Small ways we say yes to what God is asking of us. Most days we don't even notice or think twice about what we are doing, ... view the post

in Faith · March 1, 2022

These Next 40 Days

I was recently having a conversation with a friend, mentioning that I really wished pregnancy could just be 25 weeks, maybe 30 weeks tops. But, really 40! It just gets sooo long, not that I am complaining. She responded, you know there has to be something to it, a pregnancy being 40 weeks with all of the significance of 40 in the Bible. It was 40 days that it rained while Noah was in the ark during the great flood. Moses lived 40 years in Egypt. The Israelites journeyed for 40 years to the Promised Land. Jonah preached 40 days to Nineveh. Elijah fasted for 40 days on Mount Horeb. Jesus fasted for 40 days in the ... view the post

in Everyday Life, Food · February 18, 2022

What’s for Dinner?

I hear that question from at least one of my kiddos on the drive home from school. Sometimes my answer is met with an excited YES, while other days the response is a moan, groan or sigh. Even when it was just the two of us, Aaron and myself, I still tried to meal plan as much as possible. One, because I loath grocery shopping and only wanted to go as minimally as possible. Back then I could stretch it out to once every two weeks. And two, I was always so hungry when I got off of work and needed to have a game plan. Needless to say grocery shopping happens weekly now with sometimes an extra milk or produce run, ... view the post

in Everyday Life · February 9, 2022

Surviving Winter

These winter months are difficult no doubt, long, dark and cold. By the time February rolls around everyone in my house is ready for Spring, but here in the Midwest we still have almost two months of winter left. Caden has been asking almost daily how many more sleeps until Spring and Summer. Being a stay at home mom can make winter even more isolating. Feeling like we are locked in, living in a cave and cabin fever times ten. After the "bug" hitting our house in January everyone at home, quarantining and at home learning left the reality hit even a little harder. So here we are into February and I am trying ... view the post

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