Pausing to Pray
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Faith on Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Today, I did something very luxurious - I went on a retreat! Yes, the day before my son heads off for his Junior year in high school, with errands on my list, a mound of laundry to be done, and work piling up, I spent seven hours on retreat!
Since I work part time for my parish, the retreat was not my idea but rather part of my work responsibilities and a mandated event. I’ll admit that when I saw... READ MORE
Guilt Be Gone
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Friday, August 08, 2008
When my oldest child was a toddler, we read stacks and stacks of story books every night. She had her favorites memorized and we would spend hours each evening enjoying them together, over and over again.
These days, I sometimes look at my younger kids and feel a pang of guilt. When did we last spend hours and hours snuggled together on the couch reading and re-reading favorite classic stories before... READ MORE
A Baby’s Smile
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Sunday, July 20, 2008
I saw this article about mothers’ responses to their babies’ smiles linked up a few different places around the internet last week.
Like most moms, I LOVE this stuff.
“Science may have confirmed what most moms already know: When a woman sees her baby smile, certain areas of her brain activate, stimulating happy feelings.”
*snip*
When the mothers saw photos of their own baby’s face, an extensive brain... READ MORE
Kids Live Here
Posted by Danielle Bean in Back Porch on Monday, July 14, 2008
I have been thinking lately about housework and we women who avoid it, let it pile up, feel stressed about it, look for shortcuts to handle it, and ignore it until we find ourselves shouting at it and all around it, and I have all too often come to this conclusion:
We are a bunch of whiny babies.
Whiny babies can be loosely defined as — persons who refuse to accept reality quietly.
By refusing to... READ MORE
Can’t Get There From Here
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, June 30, 2008
It intrigues me how often false paths to liberation lead not just to slavery, but to the precise form of slavery from which they were intended to liberate us. To wit: among the reasons “second wave” feminists (by which I mean those pressing an agenda beyond suffrage and equal dignity before the law) were so hostile to marriage was they saw it as an instrument of subjugation in which women were... READ MORE
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