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My Body, My Children’s First Home

May 3, 2019 By Haley 8 Comments

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 to where I sit cross-legged on the floor and return to me, climbing into my lap to rest her head on my chest or pat my cheek with her chubby palm before going on her next tiny adventure across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children, Faith & Liturgical Living, Family & Homesteading, Motherhood, Our Lady Tagged With: blessed virgin mary, children, Motherhood, our lady, pregnancy

Why Mary Has to Hold the Cards: Thoughts on the Annunciation, Assault, and Free Will

March 25, 2015 By Haley 45 Comments

In Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Annunciation, we see the angel Gabriel visiting Mary in her bedroom. He stands tall while she shrinks back on her bed. Her face is difficult to read. Is she deep in thought? Or is she paralyzed by fear? The image is deeply unsettling and it’s hard to ignore the fact that it looks like we are witnessing an assault on a young girl. This is problematic on so many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Annunciation, Catholicism, Faith & Liturgical Living, Our Lady Tagged With: annunciation, christian art, gabriel, our lady

Our Lady, Stella Maris….Over at To The Heights

June 7, 2014 By Haley 2 Comments

  I'm over at Olivia's lovely blog, To the Heights chatting about Our Lady while Olivia enjoys sweet moments with her new little one! "Star of the Sea, or the Latin version of the title, Stella Maris, speaks to the idea that Our Lady is a sparkling light of hope for Christians. Our Living Hope, Christ Our Lord, is made flesh through her. But her role as a channel of God’s grace is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Our Lady Tagged With: our lady, star of the sea, stella maris

A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Fear

August 7, 2012 By Haley 12 Comments

It was the night that we brought our firstborn home from the hospital and I was crying like my heart would break. I had a wonderful natural birth, no complications, and a beautiful healthy baby boy. Everything was perfect. Then a storm rolled in. Not a soothing rainstorm, one of those eerie, harsh Texas storms that turn the sky an odd, unsettling color. Our front door was blown open with a bang … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Children, Family & Homesteading, Motherhood, Our Lady Tagged With: fear, love, Motherhood, our lady

Getting to Know Mary (And a GIVEAWAY from Trendy Traditions! NOW CLOSED)

May 16, 2012 By Haley 56 Comments

Daniel and I both agree that getting to know the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the most grace-filled aspects of our conversion to Catholicism. It was not so long ago that the idea was absolutely unfamiliar to me. I grew up in the Protestant tradition which, in my experience, completely ignored the Mother of God except during Christmas time when we were sure to mention that she was “just a regular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Giveaway, Our Lady, Rosary Tagged With: Giveaway, marian devotion, our lady, rosary, trendy traditions

January 2012 Reads

February 1, 2012 By Haley 4 Comments

Now that we're really settled into life with two kids, my sleep-deprived mind is getting back into the swing of reading for pleasure. In January I finally finished Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was a beautiful clothbound Penguin edition, see? I am more than mildly obsessed with these Penguin editions and my wonderful in-laws gifted me several for my birthday last year. Can't imagine a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness Tagged With: arthur, books, cranford, dr. seuss, elizabeth gaskell, john paul II, karen edmisten, our lady, reading, stephen lawhead

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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