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Danielle Bean

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Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her work, the two …
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Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

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Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Elizabeth Foss

Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss, an award winning columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald, published her first book, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home in 2003. The book is now in its third printing. Her popular blog, In the Heart of My Home is a source of inspiration and support for Catholic women …
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Fire Extinguisher Safety

Have you checked your fire safety plan lately?

Last week, at our Parish Staff Meeting, we had the opportunity to play fireman.  The expiration dates were up on some of the office fire extinguishers, so our head of maintenance took the opportunity to bring in a fire safety consultant to do an inservice on fire extinguishers.  I have low “meeting tolerance” so I thought it was going to be boring, but I actually learned a great deal.  Best of all, we each had the chance to actually practice with an extinguisher, aiming at an imaginary fire and practicing our skills.  I learned that the extinguisher in my home has less than ten seconds worth of use and that if handled incorrectly it can be anything from useless to dangerous. 

I immediately came home and checked the location and condition of our extinguisher in the kitchen.  The boys and I also went through a practice and drill (although they didn’t actually shoot off the extinguisher).  Since they both do a great deal of cooking, I feel like it’s essential that they know what to do in the event of a stove fire.  I hope you will take some time this week with your family to review your fire safety checklist.  Double check your smoke detectors, review escape plans, and check on the functionality of your fire extinguishers.  Most of us think, “I’ll get around to it soon” and never do this - but it’s essential that we as moms take care of business like this in our homes.  For additional information, please check out the following helpful links:

Kids Health Fire Safety
FireExtinguisher.com - The ABCs of portable fire extinguisher selection, use and maintenance

Hopefully, discharging a fire extinguisher is a skill I’ll never need to know, but I’m happy to have had the reminder that every second counts when dealing with fire and our family’s safety.


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Donot know if it was mentioned in your class
The first rule to using a fire extingusher is
“If you need a Fire Extingusher you need the Fire
Department”
Having firefighters on the way and not needing them is better than having to wait longer when they are needed Your safety is always first

 

George,
Thanks for mentioning this in case people aren’t able to study the links provided.  Thanks for this important reminder.
Lisa


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