"last day of school" 2016 We "officially" ended our first "official" year of homeschooling a couple weeks...

For the first time since adolescence, I think I'm finally becoming comfortable with my body. It happed like this. Like so many femal...

I finally got around to reading Simcha's book The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning . I avoid ever paying full price fo...

This year, so many of the Catholic blogs are talking about the "right way" to celebrate Advent and Christmas.  I've enjoyed th...

Tom's mom, aunt, and sister visited us over the weekend. On Saturday night, we were all just relaxing at our house, and chatting about ...

1. I woke up early today! And surprisingly, I feel like a million bucks. When Tom gets up for work in the mornings, the sound of him getti...

I read a post recently at Catholicmom that has put me in a reflective, examination-of-conscience sort of mood. The author writes about ho...

We just found out yesterday that Tom got a raise at this job! It's not huge, but it's definitely a good thing. We are both very th...

Ok, so this post is rather personal. But I hope that in sharing, others might be helped to recognize similar failings within themselves and...

These days, a lot of people give their children "modern names." I notice that many of them derive from place-names (Savannah, Syd...

Inspired by the many interesting and inspirational blogs I've recently been reading on homemaking, housewifery , motherhood, etc., I...