Tomorrow Gabriel is getting baptized, and I couldn’t be more full of joy! In some respects, I really feel like…
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Humble Handmaid
Babies cry, and I’m not taking it personally
I spent 45 minutes this evening rocking my inconsolable two-month-old son back to peace, and as I did so, I…
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My motivational jeans
Since Gabriel’s birth, my wardrobe has consisted of two pairs of increasingly baggy maternity jeans and a pair of old…
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Beauty of the heart
I am working on a talk I was asked to give for the St. Clare teen girls’ retreat this spring….
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To (Great) Gran’s House We Go…
On Wednesday, Gabriel and I drove ahselves down da bayou to have lunch with Great Gran and Great PaPa. It…
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Explosions. Part Three.
It occurs to me as I write this blog post that I should reflect on the feasibility of chronicling each…
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