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A girls’ trip to plantation country, meeting a New-Old Friend, and a really chunky sailboat ride

A girls’ trip to plantation country, meeting a New-Old Friend, and a really chunky sailboat ride

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Our friend Craig took us all sailing last weekend on his new sailboat. Faith was a handful wiggles-wise, but had…
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Ambition

Ambition

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I found this picture and couldn’t resist 🙂 Besides, strangely enough, it speaks to me right now. I love to…
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Mother’s Rule update – Reality check, portion control, and the Preschool Olympics

Mother’s Rule update – Reality check, portion control, and the Preschool Olympics

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I talked to my mom on Wednesday this week, and she mentioned that she had gotten tired just reading my…
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Parenting with balance: Happiness Speaks Louder than Words

Parenting with balance: Happiness Speaks Louder than Words

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

It has been on my heart for a while now to write about parenting. Each time I sat down to…
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My new life coach, and helpful quotes from a saint

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

I am continuously amazed by the practical wisdom and great holiness of St. Josemaria Escriva. I am thankful to have “found”…
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We all make mistakes.

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

“Often, actually very often, God allows his greatest servants to make the most humiliating mistakes. This humbles them in their…
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I'm a south Louisiana girl, Catholic wife, writer, speaker, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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