• Nav Social Menu

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

Erin Franco

Interior Life

Balance at the Cross

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

My husband and I are LSU fans. Not the rabid, alligator-roasting, pay-off-your-season-tickets-before-your-mortgage kind. But the faithful kind.  We had friends…
Read More

Just enough grace for the step I’m on

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

My friend Trey called me on Gabriel’s 2nd birthday a couple of weeks ago and wished me a happy birthday–for my…
Read More

Confessions of a former mommy know-it-all

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

Lately, I’ve been looking back on my not-married-no-kids self, my married-no-kids self, and my married-one-kid self. And I alternately have…
Read More

Grasping for air, and remembering you said “yes” to a Keeper

Grasping for air, and remembering you said “yes” to a Keeper

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Marriage

I was talking to a friend this morning about the tendency of (some? all? Just me?) women to constantly want…
Read More

Is joy worth the effort of trust?

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

My friend Lucy recently sent me a passage about trust from One Thousand Gifts, a beautiful book by Ann Voskamp….
Read More

The apostolate of friendship

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

The term “apostolate of friendship” really put into words some things I’ve learned and experienced about friendship over the past…
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

Don’t Let Worrying about Miscarriage Steal Your Joy

The Top Humble Handmaid Posts of 2015

When we have to trust that a barn is best

When it comes to having babies…

How Domestic Church Changed My Marriage

Why I Don’t Hate NFP Anymore

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