Hi there!
I am Catholic wife, Louisiana native, and mother of six children from high school down to preschool. I started a little blog back in 2009 in the heyday of Catholic Mommy Bloggers and have been writing about my life of faith more or less ever since.
I like my espresso with cream and my fiction Jane Austen. I’m an introvert who took 32 years to figure out she hadn’t gotten the short end of the stick. I have deep devotions to the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Our Lady, and Divine Mercy. Over the years, my blog became an apostolate, and in various seasons it’s included speaking, retreats, blogging, podcasting, and radio.
After a short-lived, post-high school modeling career in New York City, I went back to college at LSU and fell in love with my Catholic faith. Then I promptly fell in love with my future husband at a summer camp in North Carolina. We got married in 2008. Michael can build anything, is an incredible father, has a miraculous survival story, and makes me laugh every day of my life.
We have six kids on earth and two little ones in Heaven. Our marriage and life together has not followed an easy or stable path—that’s for sure. We’ve learned the hard way that God alone is our rock. We’ve stayed married and have stuck to our Catholic faith by the grace of God—and in His mercy with the help of Domestic Church.
As for motherhood, I’ve certainly been all kinds of Catholic mom.
For years I was a frazzled stay-at-home-homeschooling mom—new babies coming fast and furious while wild-child, almost-twin toddlers made me have to disinfect weird things. In those years I had to learn how to lean into a growing season, how to pray with my husband, how to not hate NFP, and how to celebrate that we all give our children different gifts.
I thought I’d always stay home and homeschool, but then the pandemic hit in 2020, and suddenly God revealed that He had other plans. Since then, I’ve worked at a secular job full time and part time, and I started a business or three with my husband. I have sent kids to Catholic school, to public school, and to daycare.
Fast forward through many plot twists to 2026, and I’ve learned that the hardest year of your life can end up being a year of favor, and that my place in this world is where I believe God is asking me to be. I’m currently home full time again. All my kids are in school, and I’m in those mind-blowing, soul-stretching Middle Years where I have children in high school, middle school, elementary school, and preschool. In three years, I’ll have a child starting college and one starting Kindergarten.
My husband’s miraculous survival of a small engine plane crash is more than three years behind us now, and we’re on our feet again. Michael and I are currently the National Couple responsible for the English-speaking Domestic Church movement in the United States. We don’t have marriage or family life all figured out, but we’ve been through some powerful for-better-or-for-worse seasons. We are walking proof that your marriage has as much potential as God has power.
The theme that threads through all my writings here at Humble Handmaid is “Rest. Ponder. Receive.” There are so many important spiritual truths in each of those little words.
I’m honored that you’re here. If something I write blesses you, I praise God for that! May I decrease and He increase, always.
