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15 Tips for Praying with Your Family

15 Tips for Praying with Your Family

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

Michael and I have prayed with our children since our first and second were very little. We started out singing and…
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When it comes to having babies…

When it comes to having babies…

Humble Handmaid· Marriage· Motherhood

When it comes to having babies (and especially with my growing baby bump these days), I find it interesting that…
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What I don’t want to tell you as a pregnant mother of multiple small children…

What I don’t want to tell you as a pregnant mother of multiple small children…

Humble Handmaid

I’m getting more good-natured comments about my growing baby bump these days, especially when I’m out and about with my…
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How Domestic Church Changed My Marriage

How Domestic Church Changed My Marriage

Domestic Church· Humble Handmaid· Marriage

This post has been readers’ all-time favorite marriage post on Humble Handmaid, so I refreshed the post for you and decided…
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Don’t Let Worrying about Miscarriage Steal Your Joy

Don’t Let Worrying about Miscarriage Steal Your Joy

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

First off, I don’t have all the answers when it comes to this topic. There are so few answers to…
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How To Tell Those D-Words Where To Go

How To Tell Those D-Words Where To Go

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Saints

I lay awake in bed a few nights ago, exhausted but unable to fall asleep. A swirling, heavy cloud of…
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The Top Humble Handmaid Posts of 2015

The Top Humble Handmaid Posts of 2015

Humble Handmaid

One of the wild things about blogging is how quickly posts come and go…even your best ones. If you thought…
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When we have to trust that a barn is best

When we have to trust that a barn is best

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

During most of Advent this year, my thoughts kept returning to what God didn’t provide for Mary at the birth of…
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Saints were people too

Saints were people too

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Saints

It had been a hard day. I had been fighting deep discouragement all day about some things going on in my…
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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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