Erin Franco
When we bought our first house, the owners were a nice young family with four children. The father was an engineer, and the mother stayed home and homeschooled the kids. The interior walls were covered with fingerprints and crayon scribbles. There were plenty of dents and dings and holes in the walls. When we finally got the keys to the house, we were appalled at
Did you know that I used to ride horses? (Check out this sweet and really old post I wrote). Growing up, I competed in hunter jumper, cross country, Pony Club, and eventually dressage. I haven’t ridden in years, but I still love horses, and I really treasure my memories of my days as a horse-crazy teen mucking out stalls, taking care of my horse, and training for
My friend Emily shared this beautiful prayer during a small group session at a recent Domestic Church marriage retreat that Michael and I facilitated, and it has become my new favorite prayer. I hope that it blesses some of you as much as it has me. Litany of Trust Written by Sr. Faustina Maria Pia, SV From the belief that I have to earn Your love
My life is wonderful. But it’s also lots of work. Good work. Hard work. Heart work. This weekend, I gave away our puppy. Or gave her back, technically. She was more work than I thought she’d be. At least for right now, for my season, my family, my personality maybe. Sweet Sadie was smart as a whip, sweet as pie, cute as a button, and
I was having one of those teary breakdown moments with my husband one night earlier this year. I was sobbing into his shoulder about how I couldn’t keep up with It All. The laundry, the dishes, the bathrooms, meals, you name it and you know it. Plus homeschooling. I just couldn’t get into a good routine that got it all done. “Why don’t you get
Homeschooling has been more of a gamechanger for me this year than I thought it would be. I think you can loosely compare starting up homeschooling to being a first-time mom. You can read all the right books, talk to all of your friends, research the best methods, and pray all you want about it, but it’s something you have to ultimately just figure out, and
My parish has some of the sweetest older ladies in the world. Rarely does a Sunday mass go by without one or two of them walking up to Michael and me to tell us what a beautiful family we have, what a great job we’re doing (no matter how awful the kids behaved in mass), and that we will one day miss these golden years
I’ve spent most of my adult life as a Christian having “morning prayer time” as a “that’d be really nice’ kind of goal, but it was a goal that always felt like a dream that I’d get to…someday. I’ll start that when that baby sleeps through the night. I’ll start when things aren’t so stressful. I’ll start when the kids are older. I’ll start when I’m stronger
Baby Franco #4 is five months old now, and I’ve been itching to distance myself from the survival mode months of the newborn stage. The timing is right, and I’m using the new year to give myself a practical fresh start with homemaking and homeschooling. First of all, I bought a fantastic new planner from my bloggy friend Jenny Ryan at Mothering Sunshine, and honestly it
I was reading Luke 1 again the other day, and the Holy Spirit lifted something new for me out of this favorite passage of mine. After Gabriel tells Mary that she will bear the Son of God, she asks him, “How can this be, since I have no husband?” I wonder the same thing sometimes about God’s plans for me. How can this be? When
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