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Erin Franco

Motherhood

A new take on old advice

Interior Life· Motherhood

“Just take things day by day” always seems to be popular advice when we’re going through something tough in our…
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Tunnel vision

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

I’ve been operating at less than 100% for the past few months–between terrific morning sickness and particularly hardy strains of…
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Short-ish letter from the Wimpy Girl Trenches

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

Good evening! It’s 9:30 and way, way, way past my bedtime, but I actually got a shower in, prayed a…
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Honest mistake?

Honest mistake?

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

My mom and sister-in-law were in town this weekend, and Michael and I took them and the kids for a…
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Fall cuties

Fall cuties

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

Faith loves a good back tickle…wonder where she gets that from? 🙂  Fall craft with Gabriel. Constructed almost entirely by…
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Letting others be good at something

Letting others be good at something

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

I have a friend, a homeschooling mom, who is amazing at playing with her children. At making little crafts with…
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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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