This sweet pea is taking her upcoming role as big sister very seriously. It is the most precious thing. In the Liturgical Year: Thank you to all the wonderful bloggers who linked up with our Lenten Little HolyDays link up! Great ideas and inspiration. How is your Lent going? Praying a daily Rosary was definitely a good choice for my lenten discipline. My other discipline was to stop yelling … [Read more...]
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This Week’s Miscellany: Vol. 41
The Sheenazing Blogger Awards are over. Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to vote for Carrots! Congrats to all the winners! Carrots didn't win, but I did get this awesome pic from the awards host, Bonnie, to add to my sidebar! I am truly still floored that I was on a ballot next to some of my favorite bloggers! Coming Up in the Liturgical Year: Lent! I need to get organized and … [Read more...]
Faith
Our Conversion Story Catholicism: Empowering Women for 2,000 Years Marriage, Fertility, and Natural Family Planning Reflections on Faith and the Christian Year … [Read more...]
It’s NFP Awareness Week!
It's NFP Awareness Week! And the week is wrapping up so I thought I'd round up a few of the NFP-related posts around here to share with you from the archives. Our recent podcast episode about NFP: Uncharted Territory: Getting Real About Natural Family Planning with Jenny Uebbing NFP Should Be a Part of Parish Life What NFP Looks Like for Our Family Right Now Why I Felt … [Read more...]
NFP Post Extravaganza
We're one week into our crazy 6 week family road trip, folks! And it's going great. We hit Atlanta, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Grandfather Mountain, NC, and Beech Mountain, NC. But I haven't had much time with an internet connection so I didn't realize it was NFP Awareness Week this week. There's been a good many posts about NFP at Carrots over the years, so I thought I'd link … [Read more...]
“Have You Ever Felt Like Being a Mother Has Ruined You?”
“Have you ever felt like being a mother has ruined you? Has brought out the absolute worst--from being a sensitive, emotional mess that will snap at the slightest challenging remark or unexpected turn in the day to making you seethe with anger and frustration all too often? I feel like I used to be so good, so on top of everything, so "proficient." And here I am, on the eve of my son's … [Read more...]
Six Reasons to NOT Send Your Son to College
Sure, college isn't for everyone. And as a woman who quit grad school to stay home and have more kids, I completely understand that some women would want to opt out. But, when I read this post, 6 Reasons to NOT Send Your Daughter to College, well, there's simply not time to go into all of the logical fallacies at play there. (And just to be clear, although the author of the post is Catholic, the … [Read more...]
Series
Being a One-Car Family Can You Fit Three Car Seats in a Camry? Ideas for Spending Less on Clothes 7 Tips for Clothing Kids, Cheaply, in All Seasons Women Speak on NFP: A Series (includes links to all posts by contributors) Part I: The Blessed Virgin Mary Part II: But Women Can’t Be Priests! Part III: Female Saints and Doctors of the Church Part IV: “My Body Isn’t … [Read more...]
This Week’s Miscellany, Vol. 2
Coming Up in the Liturgical Year: ADVENT! Yesterday marked the new liturgical year and first day of Advent. It was also the first day we used the new English translation of the Mass. I'll do a post about our Advent preparations soon with some good links for Advent resources. This picture is from last year. Benjamin looks so much smaller than he does now! Listening to: My dear friend … [Read more...]