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Motherhood

A million ways to be a good mother

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

“There is no way to be a perfect mother…but there are a million ways to be a good one.”  “We…
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A cheerful giver

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“When life is most demanding, and you give cheerfully in spite of that, that is love at its best.”  -Blessed…
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More Gabriel fishy-ness

More Gabriel fishy-ness

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

A pair o’ Francos We’ve got ourselves a crawfish-eatin’ toddler, folks Having more fun than all the rest of us…
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Delighting in your children

Delighting in your children

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

I make it a point to gush about my kids. To everyone. It’s not hard to gush about my kids….
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Giving without poetry

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

“A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmate, a steadying column.” -Sirach 36:24 “A gracious wife delights her husband,…
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God’s mercy and the Poky Little Puppy

God’s mercy and the Poky Little Puppy

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

Gabriel is my own poky little puppy. I’m talking about the head-in-the-clouds, procrastinating, slow-moving, can’t-walk-in-a-straight-line-distracted kind of poky. It’s been…
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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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