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Gabriel, I dare you to move

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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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Babies cry, and I’m not taking it personally

Babies cry, and I’m not taking it personally

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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

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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

Beauty of the heart

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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…

To (Great) Gran’s House We Go…

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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.

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It occurs to me as I write this blog post that I should reflect on the feasibility of chronicling each…
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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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