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Erin Franco

Interior Life

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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Sweet-smelling humble pie

Sweet-smelling humble pie

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

Today, my humble pie tasted like tears and smelled like flowers. I had a discouraging couple of hours with Gabriel…
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Keep calm and carry on

Keep calm and carry on

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

A close friend told me this afternoon that a new friend of ours remarked to her after meeting me that…
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Let’s talk about our husbands

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Marriage

Let’s talk about our husbands. But let’s be nice, ladies. Actually, let’s be more than nice. Let’s be charitable.  Let’s…
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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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