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Car Culture
“Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.” Honestly, that’s one of the more helpful adages for us—since we often lament how our “good” falls...
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Tags: Children, Communication, Family, Family Life, Family Life & Parenting, Family Prayer, Family Time, Family Traditions, Listening, Parenting, Simplicity
On the Sanctification of Dirty Diapers
Our family welcomed our third baby this May. While we feel very blessed to be adjusting to life as a family of five, my husband and I have found ourselves all t...
Tags: Challenges, Eucharist, Family Life & Parenting, Household Chores, Infants, Motherhood, Perseverance, Sacrifice
Back to School Jitters
With the start of a new school year just a few weeks away, kids are starting to feel the jitters. Many homes will go through a roller-coaster of emotion in the ...
Tags: Advice and Tips, Children, Family Life & Parenting, Parenting, Stress, Transitions
Ending the Phone-Based Childhood
Not sure about you, but most families we know are touched in some way by the mental health crisis. So, when we saw the title of social psychologist Jonathan Hai...
Tags: Advice and Tips, Children, Family Life & Parenting, Parenting, Simplicity, Society
The Garden
Ambitious, and more than a little oblivious, I spent the first warm Saturday of the year intending to pull every. Last. Weed. from my flowerbeds. For hours I be...
Tags: Advice and Tips, Challenges, Patience, Perseverance, Prayer and Spirituality
Sharing Heaven with Strangers
“Um…that was awkward!” That’s what we sometimes hear from our teens after they see us chatting with strangers at Trinity House Café, the grocery check-...
Tags: Advice and Tips, Community, Eucharist, Faith, Family, Living the Domestic Church, Mission and Evangelization, Society, Technology, Witness