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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, 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

Arwen Mosher
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

Robyn Lee
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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Guest Bloggers

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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Tempted Am I

Williams-Sonoma goes over to the dark side

I tried not to look at the latest Williams-Sonoma catalog.

But I sensed a disturbance in the force and gave in.

I know this ought to be resisted: else where will the product tie-ins end?

And yet…I have little wookies boys who would be absolutely delighted if these showed up at a birthday party.

I hate it when the Dark Side is cute.


Cookie Eggs

Can’t get enough egg decorating?

Here’s yet another form, with step-by-step instructions.


Pi Day

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Today is Pi Day, when Math nerds around the world celebrate their favorite Mathematical constant.

It’s also Einstein’s birthday, so a big day for Science lovers as well.

I barely recall how to multiply and divide, but I do love this amazing collection of “science cookies.”

See these, too—also on the nuclear theme.

Any Pi lovers out there?


Confection Affections

What's going on in your kitchen?

Have you begun your Christmas baking yet?

I have done ... exactly none so far.

This is not like me. I usually enjoy spending my Advent filling my freezer with a beautiful assortment of special cookies and candies for Christmas gifts and entertaining.

But I’m always lecturing other moms about accepting their season in life and I suppose it’s time I took my own advice.

Right now my motherhood seems... READ MORE 


Double Stuff Theology

How an Oreo Cookie Mirrors the Trinity

I teach confirmation prep to ninth graders at my local parish. The confirmation requirement for the students is to meet for an hour twice a month: once in a classroom with me and the other hour in homes with their peers. I don’t love the model, but that is why I decided to become a teacher. Instead of complaining about the system and doing nothing, I joined the system so I could influence those 25... READ MORE 


Conventional Oven

I like what I like

Today, I took advantage of the chilly, rainy weather and spent the afternoon baking. I made several loaves of pumpkin bread and a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

For both of these items I have a recipe I normally use, and today for some strange reason I tried new recipes for both. Boy was that a mistake!

The cookies weren’t too bad. I used the recipe off the bag of my Ghiradelli chips, different... READ MORE 


Feast of the Archangels

Sts Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, pray for us!

Reader Cyndi sent along this photo of the adorable cookies she baked for today’s feast along with this note:

Thank you for post last year - “Feast of the Archangels: How will you celebrate?”  I made sure to make the day special this year for my son, Gabriel Augustine.  Just by coincidence, our home parish and school is St. Michael the Archangel.  So, I made a bunch of cookies for him to take to school for a treat and I printed off the archangel coloring pages for the teacher to pass out.

Nice job, Cyndi! Here are the Litany to the Holy Angels and the Archangel coloring pages to assist others in their celebrations today.


Toast Those Oats!

for even more delicious cookies

Something about this time of year makes me want to bake cookies. 

(Until a few weeks from now, anyway, when we go apple picking and I start wanting to bake apple crisp!)

I like oatmeal cookies because the oats give them a more substance than chocolate chip or sugar cookies, and I enjoy them even more with dried fruit and nuts in them.  It’s almost like eating sweetened granola in the form of a disc... READ MORE 


Just for the Fun of It

Pretty watermelon cookies are refreshingly simple to make

Part of the fun we’ve been having here while the kids and I are visiting my sister in Connecticut has been ... creative baking!

I love to make fun cookies and cupcakes, but the truth is, I never seem to have much time for it anymore.

When I first saw this recipe for adorable watermelon cookies last month, I decided I would make them for the Fourth of July ... didn’t happen.

So then I decided I would... READ MORE 


The Cookies Are Ready

Are you?

What are you and your family doing this afternoon?

Will you be watching the Super Bowl?


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