Catholics Love A Good Birth Story

You know who loves a good birth story?
Catholics do.
We’re kind of obsessed with them, if you think about it, or at least, obsessed with one in particular.  We retell it in pageant form, in song form, in picture… Read More

How A Run Changed My (Pro)Life

I really need to rethink my Twitter feed.
Since I’m roughly 90 years old, getting a grasp on the Twitter and figuring out what to do with it has generally proved too much for me.  Right now, my basic philosophy… Read More

39 Weeks Is the Cruelest Month

39 weeks is the cruelest month, bringing
contractions that produce nothing, mixing
hope with annoyance, stirring sleeping husbands 
in the middle of the night, whispering “hey, time this!”
(my apologies to T.S. Eliot.  But not really.)
Yesterday marked the 39th… Read More

On Being Open To Life

So in light of the recent Washington Post Article on NFP and some of the interesting dialog it’s generated, I took my friend Grace’s advice and am re-running this post I wrote on my personal blog almost a year ago.… Read More

Homeschool/SSPX/ Mantillas

I’m the kind of person who needs the structure of schedules.  Without them I tend to spend too much time on Facebook or going on impromptu hikes or adding things to my husband’s honeydo list.  Posts here at Catholic Exchange… Read More

Never Worked A Day In Her Life

Hey moms- how many of you can relate to some aspect of this picture here?
Let’s examine the vignette, shall we?

Four year old about to be policed off the couch thanks to a bossy nine year old and a… Read More

Catch as Catch Can Holy Week

Every year since I’ve become Catholic, with the sole exception of the Easter Vigil when I entered the Church, I find myself kneeling in front of the Tabernacle on Easter Sunday and being flooded with this overwhelming feeling that I… Read More

Good Friday With Johnny Cash

When I was offered this opportunity to blog here at Catholic Exchange, I was begged not to “get all pious” on y’all.  It seems that whatever gifts I was given to serve the Kingdom lay more in the humor department… Read More

What A Holy Woman of A Large Family Doesn’t Look Like

Highlights from the week:

at some point Monday morning, the little boys steal the syrup bottle, sneak it downstairs, and proceed to take shots from it while watching He-Man in their underwear.  The empty bottle, shoved under the coffee table,… Read More

Instagram

I love photography.
I love it in the way a little girl loves horses, because they are magical and make the world more beautiful.
I do not love it in the way a championship Thoroughbred stable loves horses, with an… Read More

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About Cari Donaldson

Cari Donaldson

Cari Donaldson stepped through the looking glass when she married her high school sweetheart in a Presbyterian ceremony back in 1999. Since then, she and her husband have found themselves the parents of six children, and on the corporate gypsy trail, with transfers moving them from the Midwest to the deep South to New England. The most startling developments however, have been the conversion to Catholicism in 2006, and the discovery that blogging provides an excellent creative outlet.


Cari graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in English, has a Masters Degree in Education from Marygrove College in Detroit, and taught 7th and 8th graders Language Arts and Social Studies for six years. She now homeschools her children, spending her days making sure they all know the difference between there, their, and they're, because it would be really embarrassing for their mother if they didn't.


You can find Cari on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/clan.donaldson and Twitter at @CariDonaldson and here on Catholic Exchange.