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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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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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Bad 80’s Hair

Thank goodness those days are history

OK, Danielle threw down the gauntlet, so of course I am compelled to rise to the challenge and share with you the results of my own little trip down memory lane over at yearbookyourself.com.  Being the old lady of the Faith and Family blogging team, I graduated from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California in 1981.  The truth of the matter is that my real yearbook photo was nothing like this one - I was one of those long, straight hair girls with no bangs.  But it’s kind of fun to imagine that what might have been (not!!) had I given in to the big hair craze! 


Weekend Fun

Oh, the miracle of the internet! Though I wasn’t yet born in 1968, by uploading a photo to this hilarious website, I can see what my high school yearbook photo would look like for that year. Stunning, no?

There are many different years to choose from. I tried out a couple of the oversize eighties hairstyles but was unimpressed with the results. If I want to see pictures of myself looking like that I need look no further than my parents’ home where several of them are framed and hanging. And I look AWESOME, thank you very much.

Go on now. Have yourself a laugh this morning.


Sweet Success!

We did get around to baking this afternoon, as I had planned. Though I still have wet bed linens sitting in the washer and only a vague plan for dinner, Juliette’s smile tells me it was time well spent.

Pictured here are these muffins, but we used blackberries instead of blue. And we doubled the recipe, of course.

Yum!


Benefits

Reason #4,361 to have a mess of kids:

Picture Possibilities!

The Bean kids, on the grounds of the St. Anthony Franciscan Monastery (Kennebunkport Shipyard in the background)


Found

My kitchen pot.

My bathroom.

Someone else’s amazing, growing, just-add-water, rubber lizard.


25 Benedicts

“The Church is young! The Church is alive!” What Pope Benedict XVI said in his first message as Pope is literally true, as these 25 Benedicts show — one Pope and 24 babies. In honor of his U.S. visit and World Youth Day, we present the Holy Father’s youthful legacy.

Log on to our sister site Pope2008.com for Tim Drake’s live coverage of papal events, and U.S. video feed courtesy of EWTN.

Benedict... READ MORE 


What’s Going On Here?

What could it be that has my boys so engrossed on a summer afternoon? What has so captivated their attention that I have not seen their darling faces indoors for the better part of the day?

I was certain they were reading Shakespeare. You know, my sweet little cherubs love to gather outdoors on temperate days for an impromptu reading of Hamlet.

Just kidding. They prefer the sonnets.

Okay, maybe not... READ MORE 


Legacy

This is a different kind of legacy my kids are creating, but it’s every bit as precious.

The other day, Dan was cleaning out our outdoor shed and he found an old accordion file of mine. In it were old notebooks with bits and pieces of my writing from the past several years. It was fun to flip through them and find my handwritten notes for essays that wound up being part of my first book or that made their way into other publications in various forms. In that file were also two smaller... READ MORE 


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