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Erin Franco

The ordinary things

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2013 2 Nov

“Either we learn to find our Lord in ordinary, everyday life, or else we shall never find Him.” -St. Josemaria Escriva


I have to remind myself that the ordinary things are still there, even in the extraordinary times in our lives.

On Halloween, we watched Monsters University instead of trick-or-treating, because it was pouring down raining outside. After two-year-old Faith’s attention span was up, she walked around the room in her angel costume “scaring” each of us in turn, over and over and over. She was adorable. She has been such a delight to us since the day she was born.

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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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