Click for Cute
Posted by Arwen Mosher in News on Friday, April 20, 2012
My husband and I will have our tenth wedding anniversary this year, and I feel like we’ve been married “forever” - but we’ve got nothing on this couple!
Eunice and Lloyd Ford were married April 9, 1929, a full EIGHTY-THREE years ago. Wow.
And as a bonus, here are eleven babies around the world. So cute!
Photo courtesy of the Ford family
Love Souls
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, March 09, 2012
Friday, March 9
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son’.
I love being Catholic. I love the way the Catholic faith leads people to an experience of Jesus that includes every aspect of the human person; the body, intellect, senses, memory and imagination. That is why I love making the Stations of the Cross on the Fridays of Lent. We adore you O Christ, and we praise you. ... READ MORE
Seek Out God
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Saturday, February 25, 2012
Saturday, February 25
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners. – Luke 5:32
What a hopeful and comforting statement from our Savior in the gospel reading of today! I am just as sinful as the next man and I can’t help but smile and breathe a sigh of relief whenever I read this. We are all sinners yet God calls us change and even desires, as the physician, to heal us and spend... READ MORE
Have a Happy Marriage
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and that’s got me thinking about love. Love is in the air! Chocolates, roses, red wine and crab dip. (That last one might be specific to us?).
But what really keeps the love alive? Flowers and candy are all well and good but a happy marriage they do not make. Yes, they add an extra spark, but no amount of ornamentals can make up for a good foundation—and if... READ MORE
Happy Mothers
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Monday, September 12, 2011
“Motherhood is not my highest calling,” says blogger Elizabeth Esther.
That provocative headline got my attention, and so did the premise that misplaced idealism regarding motherhood is ruining it for everybody:
This incredible weight of expectation places an almost impossible burden on mothers and non-mothers alike.
When we artificially inflate the importance of motherhood, then average, everyday,... READ MORE
Ups and Downs
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Wednesday, March 02, 2011
As part of training for his new job, my brother had to take a cold-weather survival skills training course.
Among other things, it involved his being outside overnight in single-digit temperatures.
“I have never been so cold and hungry in my life,” he says. He told me about pacing the beach at 2am, trying to keep warm, wanting to quit but having no choice but to keep going and make it through the... READ MORE
How To Be Happy At Home
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Homemaking on Monday, February 07, 2011
Here’s a story whose end I didn’t see coming. I might have shared it on a podcast already—can’t recall.
When we were younger and were on the political activist social circuit more, I used to delight in responding to the typical Washington, DC party question, “What do you do?” with an unapologetic and smiling, “I’m a housewife.”
I used this response even during the periods of my life when I was working... READ MORE
Okay, Mama!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Monday, November 01, 2010
The children were supposed to be tidying the block mess they’d made, but Blaise got upset about something and came to sit on my lap.
I told him that he’d better go help his sister, but then his sister’s curly head bounced around the corner.
“That’s okay, Mama,” she chirped. “I can clean up all by myself!”
And as she skipped away to get the job done (when I checked later, the room was spotless) I thought... READ MORE
Little Girl Love
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, August 27, 2010
This week I had an awesome privilege: the chance to be present at the birth of my very first niece.
Only one of my siblings is married, and Bryan’s an only child, so my sister’s kids are (so far) my sole chance at aunt-hood. She has two boys already and I’d have loved another one just as much, but I am thrilled that Branwen had a girl instead.
(I’m already plotting matching Christmas dresses for our... READ MORE
Do Kids Make You Miserable?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Monday, August 16, 2010
Time. Newsweek. New York magazine.
Mary Eberstadt has a nice column summarizing the recent spate of articles purporting to show that nothing’s more miserable than being a parent.
She makes the point the question is too subjective to be meaningful.
Ask me when I haven’t slept in 6 months I’ll say something different than the day Princess cleans her room without being asked.
She makes a beautiful... READ MORE
