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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and 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 …
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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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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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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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What's In Your Freezer?

Culinary Wednesday ... for Friday

I’ve had emails from some of you reminding me that Culinary Wednesday didn’t appear last week, and in a nice way adding, get with it, lady. 

Sorry about that, friends.

I was out of town and my optimistic plan of posting from the road didn’t happen. Then when I thought I’d sent the following post to Danielle, I’d mistakenly sent an older one. So, here is what should have appeared on Wednesday, and... READ MORE 


Coffee Granita From Your Freezer

Like a crushed popsicle, with a buzz
My granita does not look this elegant.

I like to experiment with refreshing treats in the summer. Imagine my delight, for example, a few years ago when I discovered that making a healthy, delicious, frozen treat was as simple as putting a bag of grapes in my freezer.

Voila! Frozen candy!

But sometimes I like to try things a little more complicated than that. This past week, my love of frozen confections and my passion for all things coffee... READ MORE 


Refriganization

I'm not so good at it

We have three identical, opened bottles of barbeque sauce in our refrigerator.

This is not necessarily wasteful.  Barbeque sauce has a long shelf life and it will all get used eventually.  But it is a less-than-optimal use of space in our crowded refrigerator.

I discovered the sauce tonight when I was putting away the groceries from a large trip to the store.  In order to make room for them, I had... READ MORE 


Freezing Cookies

Fill your freezer for Christmas

In a previous Advent post, Katie asked an important question:

“How does one freeze cookie dough without ending up freezer burnt?”

I do have a little bit of experience here. Every year, I bake throughout Advent and “feed my freezer” in anticipation of making cookie trays for gifts, entertaining, and family celebrations once Christmas comes.

I freeze many bags of different kinds of baked cookies. Then,... READ MORE 


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