While Vaughn’s pre-Mass crabbiness is disheartening, there’s a silver lining: it reminds me how important it is for me, as a parent, to help her understand the significance and beauty of Mass.
October 4th, 2011 by Julie Filby
While Vaughn’s pre-Mass crabbiness is disheartening, there’s a silver lining: it reminds me how important it is for me, as a parent, to help her understand the significance and beauty of Mass.
October 3rd, 2011 by Pat Gohn
Sacrifice acts on behalf of another, putting them first, not furthering one’s own cause. It entails interrupting or delaying our own plans, desires, trajectories, goals, and even giving something we may be afraid to lose—our time, money, comfort, power, or prestige—for the sake of another who may or may not be worthy of it.
September 30th, 2011 by Erika Ahern
But, really, people. Girls are easier than boys? Have you spent much time with a 12-year-old girl? Have you spent much time with any woman between, say, puberty and menopause? I look at my three angelic daughters and hear echoing in my head, “The days are coming, sayeth the Lord, when I shall strike the land with doom.” My parenting challenges are only just beginning.
November 30th, 2009 by Marybeth Hicks
There had to be a dozen mismatched suitcases – big ones – all stuffed to capacity and secured with luggage straps, but the one I noticed first was a small, pink overnight bag with a teddy bear sticking out of…
November 18th, 2009 by Marybeth Hicks
The subject line on the e-mail in my inbox said, “Moms group question – song lyrics.” The first draft of my reply read: “AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG,” but I thought better of it. E-mail isn’t good for conveying deeply held emotions.
Here was…
July 21st, 2009 by Bill Donaghy
Daddy’s Here…. Mommy’s Here!
Our son is teething, which is the adult equivalent of having your skeleton slowly pulled to the outside of your body over a period of months. Needless to say, I’m glad I have no recollection of…
June 6th, 2009 by Heidi Hess Saxton
Sometimes when I speak or write about adoption, people approach me and ask me what to do when one half of a couple (usually but not always the husband) isn’t open to raising an adopted or foster child. Usually I…
May 23rd, 2009 by Heidi Bratton
While waiting in the car for my 19-year-old daughter to get out of work, I was trying hard to entertain her 17-month-old brother. Not finding many toys in the car, I gave him my purse, which he dug into as…
May 11th, 2009 by Elizabeth Foss
I’ve gotten several e-mails recently asking parenting advice. I don’t know if I’ll ever be comfortable answering those requests. I’m learning as I go and I don’t presume to know enough to comment on someone else’s home situation with an…
May 2nd, 2009 by Heidi Bratton
A few years ago we took a family trip to the Grand Canyon during a winter vacation. We spent six months preparing for the journey, studying the history and geography of the Southwest, and carefully making all the travel arrangements. …