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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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Where We Parked for Dinner Last Night

We celebrated the start of our school year with a boat ride and dinner at the lake last night.

Kids swam. Grown ups connected. Loons laughed. Sun set.

God’s goodness is far-reaching. It found us even here, on a tiny bit of land, on a little lake in New Hampshire.


Candid Kids Are Best

my views from the lake

With the crazy cold summer weather we’ve had here lately, I’ve been rushing to take advantage of even the small pockets of warmth and sunshine the heavens grant us here and there.

When we see a bit of sun peek out from behind the clouds, we pack up quickly and head to the lake. The kids swim for just a few minutes sometimes before it starts to drizzle and then we head back home again, but hey ...... READ MORE 


A Boat, A Lake, A Pole

What more does a man need?
Ambrose hefts his 7 lb 11 oz pike

“Make sure you’re ready for pictures,” my husband warned me when we spoke yesterday as he drove home from a 5-day all-boy fishing trip to New York.

I made sure I was ready. And I got pictures.

Not only of this monster pike Ambrose caught and managed to wrestle into the boat (all by himself—yes he did!). But of the other boys and men with fish as well.

There were on the lake moments, in the truck... READ MORE 


A Summer Tease

Yesterday's temperatures were a blast from the past and a taste of what's to come.

Temperatures here yesterday reached the high 80’s.

We were impressed. Late April just doesn’t do that here in New Hampshire.

The weather man said the heat wouldn’t last, so we decided to make the most of it with our first lake trip of the season.

Where it all came rushing back to me.

The head counts: I count to eight ... I count to eight ... I count to eight ... I count to seven. I panic, spin in... READ MORE 


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