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Meet the Faith & Family bloggers. We invite you to join us in encouraging and helping the Faith & Family community grow in faith!

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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Top 10 Things I Learned at the Mom's Day Away

I won’t hit it all. I won’t even try. There was too much goodness and beauty to capture in a blog post.

Women’s wisdom surrounded us at our Mom’s Day Away — and the Holy Spirit sank a few things deep in our hearts. Here, in no particular order, is my own personal “highlights reel” of things I learned for the journey …

1. You can leave All. Your. Clothes. at home — half a country away — and still... READ MORE 


My Two Cents

http://causa-nostrae-laetitiae.blogspot.com/2011/04/faith-and-family-moms-day-away.html

Me too, me too!

That’s almost all I have to say about the shot in the arm that was the Mom’s Day Away. Danielle and so many others have already described it well.

It was a treat to finally meet in person women I’ve admired from afar and so many of our regular commenters here.

One thing that struck me that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is how different we all were, one from another.

It was not a homeschooling... READ MORE 


Mom's Day Away Babies

Babies welcome!

I just wanted to share some photos I took of the sweetest and youngest guests who attended the Faith & Family Mom’s Day Away on Saturday. Enjoy!


There In Our Midst

We women need each other

Oh my GOODNESS, what an amazing experience it was hosting our first-ever Faith & Family Mom’s Day Away on Saturday!

I hardly slept the night before, so filled was my head with “What if’s” and “If only’s.” But I should have known better than to fret about anything. The fact is, the women who read and support Faith & Family are amazingly positive people. With a crowd of Faith & Family supporters (and... READ MORE 


Join Us Live!

Mom's Day Away Comes to You

We are so happy yo have so many amazing moms joining us for the Faith & Family Mom’s Day Away today, but we know there are many of you who weren’t able to make the trip to Massachusetts to be here with us in person. We are planning to broadcast today’s talks and other events live, right here, via ustream so that all of the Faith & Family community can be part of this special day.

You can see the schedule for our day here, and watch the broadcast live below.


Live TV : Ustream


So What Are We Going to Do at the Mom's Day Away?

Take a look at our schedule for the day

Well, I’m beginning to get pretty darned excited about our upcoming Faith & Family Mom’s Day Away on Saturday, April 2.

Time is almost running out, but you can still register!

For those of you who would like a little more information about the event before registering, or for those of you who are coming but would like to know more about what to expect, I thought I would post our schedule for the day.... READ MORE 


Mom's Day Away Twitter Party

Will You Be There?

So, girls ... who’s coming to the Faith and Family Mom’s Day Away event?

Though I hope you all answered with a resounding “Me!”, I realize traveling to Boston might be difficult for many. Because of that, we are doing everything we can to involve all of you off-site gals in the fun!

My hope is that everyone—both on-site and off—will join us on Twitter (@FaithandFamily) to chat about the event! We’ve... READ MORE 


Faith & Family On CatholicTV

Hear all about our Mom's Day Away!

If you missed my interview on CatholicTV‘s This Is the Day last Friday, you can check it out here on video. My segment, in which I talk about the Faith & Family Mom’s Day Away (There is still time to register!), begins at about 18:00.


Register Today for Mom's Day Away

There are still spots open for our Faith & Family Mom’s Day Away brought to you by BibleToys.com.

So many Faith & Family moms will be there—Rachel Balducci, Jennifer Fulwiler, Hallie Lord, Kate Wicker, Daria Sockey, Celeste Behe, Robyn Lee, Lynn Wehner, Rebecca Teti, Simcha Fisher, Melanie Bettinelli, Dorian Speed ... and lots more.

Won’t you join us? Don’t miss out! Get all the details and register today!


See Me on CatholicTV

Tomorrow morning (Friday) I will be a guest on CatholicTV’s This is the Day at 10:30 am EDT.

I will be talking about how moms need occasional spiritual pampering and Faith & Family’s Mom’s Day Away. You can tune in live. See you there!


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