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27 Books for Your Mass Bag (And Tips for Dealing with Little Ones in Mass)
After I posted about how my kids didn’t ruin Mass despite their best efforts, I often get emails wondering how we deal with having small children in Mass and what we do to get them to behave. Don’t...
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A Few of My Favorite Things: Catholic Children’s Books and Forgiveness!...
By: Nicole Lataif Happy Tuesday, everyone! ☺ A special THANK YOU to Haley for featuring me as a guest! My name is Nicole Lataif and I’m the author of the children’s picture book, “I Forgive You: Love...
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Seeing Through the Eyes of Love: Tiny Ballerinas and Fighting the Self-Image...
I think my daughters are beautiful. Last week I watched my oldest, Lucy (almost 3), tip toe across the studio of her third ballet class. (The class she’s been begging to take for months.) If ever my...
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When It Feels Like You’re Failing at Building Your Cathedral
The Most Important Person on Earth is a Mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral-a dwelling...
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9 Ideas for Observing Lent with Kids: Holy Heroes Review (and free coloring...
This post is sponsored by Holy Heroes. Is it just me, or is Lent painfully early this year? I feel like I’m still recovering from Christmastide. On the other hand, I’m a big Lent fan. I love that the...
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8 Picture Books for Lent and Easter
I’m usually on the ball with having great picture books to read during Advent, but this is the first year I’ve intentionally sought out Lent and Easter reads for the kids. So head on over to your...
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That Time I Cut Gwen’s Hair (!)
So I did something this morning. Kind of on a whim. I cut my baby girl’s hair. First hair cuts are always a pretty big deal but not everyone’s barely 2-year-old has hair down to her hips. So it was a...
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Why You Should Take Your Kids to Caves, Monasteries, and Fancy Hotels
As loyal readers will know, my family of five is currently on a six week road trip around the United States before we begin our new life in Texas. We’re in week three and it’s been 90% wonderful and...
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Every Story Has a Bellybutton
While we’re on our adventure across the country, my friend Tyler is sharing a post on the blog today. Enjoy! – Haley Image source By Tyler Blanski Everyone has a story, and every story has a...
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10 MORE Books You Must Read to Your Daughter (Semi-Inspired by Kathleen Kelly)
“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.” – Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail Three years ago one of my posts went...
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The Conversation We Have to Have with Our Kids
This post is sponsored by Covenant Eyes. My oldest child is seven years old. In a perfect world, I would not have to worry about protecting him from pornography. But, this is not a perfect world and I...
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Links for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
image source Today, October 15th, is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. It’s a difficult day for so many families because miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss are not uncommon. For most of...
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Notes from the ER
I can’t remember a time EVER when I failed to post for 5 weeks. I’m the WORST BLOGGER lately. But travel plus book deadline plus starting back full steam ahead with homeschooling has kept me more than...
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This Is My Body, Broken for You
I was staring up at the crucifix during Mass. I was too sick to kneel, so I was just sitting in the pew while everyone knelt around me. I was desperately trying not to throw up, the pregnancy nausea...
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Baby Name Reveal for Baby Carrots!
I am a baby name nerd. You need to know this to understand this story. I make extensive lists (despite my aversion to listmaking) of baby names I love for future use. I have a giant document on my...
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Parents, It’s Better When You Give Up
My 9yo son asked me yesterday if it was easier having a baby in the house with big kid helpers or if it’s easier to just have one baby in the house and no other kids to care for. (We just had our...
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A Recap of Our 2018!
In some ways 2018 felt a million years long and in some ways it’s just flown by–packed full of stuff. I wanted to share some of the big events with you (partly just to document for myself!). January:...
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What Bakonzo Naming Conventions Taught Me about the Gift of Siblings
Give a warm Carrots welcome to one of my favorite people in the universe, my dear friend of 18 years and fellow writer, Katherine Grimm Bowers! I twisted her arm into writing a post for you for...
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My Body, My Children’s First Home
As my fourth baby has learned to crawl over the past few weeks, I watch her launch out across the living room to grab toys and explore. After scurrying several feet away, she will turn her head back...
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Don’t Let Strangers on the Internet Tell You What’s Best for Your Family
I regret to inform you that the “is it a sin for moms to work?” issue has re-emerged from the ugly cave of groan-worthy online arguments. I’ve gone enough rounds on the ol’ internet to know that the...
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