• Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
  • About
  • Humble Handmaid
    • Substack
    • Archives
  • Speaking
  • Contact

Erin Franco

Humble Handmaid

I need my kids to help me, and they know it

I need my kids to help me, and they know it

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

I was having one of those teary breakdown moments with my husband one night earlier this year. I was sobbing…
Read More

Homeschooling lessons, year two

Homeschooling lessons, year two

Homeschooling· Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

Homeschooling has been more of a gamechanger for me this year than I thought it would be. I think you…
Read More

The golden years are fast and slow

The golden years are fast and slow

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

My parish has some of the sweetest older ladies in the world. Rarely does a Sunday mass go by without…
Read More

Different gifts

Different gifts

Humble Handmaid

Why are we mothers tempted to dwell so much on the gifts we either can’t or don’t give to our…
Read More

Three Things That (Finally) Made Morning Prayer a Habit for Me

Three Things That (Finally) Made Morning Prayer a Habit for Me

Domestic Church· Homeschooling· Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

I’ve spent most of my adult life as a Christian having “morning prayer time” as a “that’d be really nice’…
Read More

Waiting on my playset, and learning how to pray

Waiting on my playset, and learning how to pray

Humble Handmaid

Right around this day two years ago, Michael and I walked into our monthly Domestic Church circle meeting at the…
Read More

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Hi there!

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…

Let’s Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Browse Archives by Category

  • Book reviews
  • Domestic Church
  • Homeschooling
  • Humble Handmaid
  • Interior Life
  • Marriage
  • Motherhood
  • NFP
  • Podcast
  • Radio
  • Saints

Popular in the Archives

Why I Don’t Hate NFP Anymore

How Domestic Church Changed My Marriage

When it comes to having babies…

3 Social Habits that Can Make or Break a Culture of Life

Don’t Let Worrying about Miscarriage Steal Your Joy

15 Tips for Praying with Your Family

© 2026 · Erin Franco · Humble Handmaid · All Rights Reserved