Two Different Reactions

As my husband and I were leaving church with our six children yesterday, we met two older ladies who had completely opposite reactions to our family.  The first lady said, “You have a beautiful family.  But I have to ask… Read More

Reading Aloud with Your Spouse

About eight years ago, my husband and I decided to relegate the use of the television to a very minor part of the family’s entertainment — mostly for sports or for use with the VCR to watch a movie, about… Read More

Useless Moments

For a homeschooling mother like myself, time is a precious commodity, so it is vital for me to make the most of my time.  Yet I have found that rushing around in a frantic daze is not the most efficient… Read More

Parental Virtues

Patience has never been my strong point, but before I became a mother, I could get by without too much trouble.  Mostly I’d get annoyed at inanimate objects or at myself, so I didn’t have to deal with a lot… Read More

The Season of Garage Sales

‘Tis spring, the season of garage sales, and I am a garage sale convert.  Not that I am expecting to throw my own garage sale, mind you, but early Saturday mornings I leave my husband watching the children finishing up… Read More

Prayerful Distractions

As I bowed my head and knelt to thank Our Lord for having come to me in Holy Communion, suddenly I felt two little hands begin to attempt to pry my eyelids open. I knew the hands belonged to my… Read More

Interruptions

Interruptions seem to be an integral part of motherhood.  Just as I plunge my hands into a sink of dirty dishwater, my daughter tells me that the baby needs his diaper changed.  Or a toddler comes and says he needs his shoe tied.  Or wants his bumped head kissed.  As my children grow older, the types of interruptions change.  Happy seven-year-olds want to prattle about everything under the sun just as I reach the most suspenseful chapter in the mystery I'm reading; emotional teenagers will want to talk and sob and talk some more just as I'm getting ready for bed (so I'm told they will; we don't have any teens yet in my house).  I'm sure that as long as I own a telephone, my children will manage to rearrange my scheduled day as blithely as they do now.  Nor do mothers have a copyright on interruptions; every office worker who uses a phone — and everyone under the sun who carries a cell phone — can recognize the extreme annoyance that interruptions can bring.

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