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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
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
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 and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. 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 …
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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

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut 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 and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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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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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Oh the Glamour!

Behind the podcast

Sometime tomorrow we will be posting this week’s Faith & Family Live! podcast, a conversation between Danielle, Arwen and me.

This week we discussed vacation and exercise (not at the same time) and because I am in the throes of packing for vacation, and thus trying to run a million errands, I did some juggling to “get to” the podcast.

I decided to make the call en route to the grocery store, thus not having to worry about making sure the house was totally quiet. But I didn’t want to drive while we were actually recording, so I headed to McDonald’s and got a nice yummy tea. I parked the car and fed the baby while I chatted with the girls.

You should have seen me! There I sat in my Suburban in the McDonald’s parking lot, wedged between two car seats, nursing the baby while wearing my headset. I was the essence of the modern, professional woman.

Unfortunately Isabel started to cry a bit as I ever-so-quietly burped her. As I put her back in the seat, I covered the mouthpiece so the listener wouldn’t be treated to baby wailing and it turns out that mouthpiece has a built-in off button. That little chime sound you will hear when you listen this week—that’s the sound of me clicking out of the conversation, accidentally hanging up on my fellow podcasting sisters.

“Ack!,” I texted Danielle, “I just disconnected myself!”

I got my wits about me and decided to try calling the number again. And sure enough it worked. A few minutes later, I magically reappear, rejoining the conversation as if I never even left.

And now you know…the rest of the story.


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So funny, reminds me of myself. 11 years ago, when I had my first baby, I was still in the upper management of a big Insurance/finAncial services company on NY. The senior management I interacted with every day were stereotypical males, you can imagine. I didn’t have much of a maternity leave. I was on conference calls all through labor, until I could no longer speak. At about one weak post partum they needed me back on the phone. I had a headset phone with a mute button. I happily participated in hours worth of conference calls, all while nursing my beAutiful baby. Noone ever knew, and it still makes me laugh at what the reactions of these stuffy old men would have been if they could see what was going on on my end of the phone…


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