Category: Parenting and Family Life

Actually, EB aside, I thought this paragraph was so familiar, and well, vindicating: It reminded me of how, early in my marriage, as my wife and I adjusted to NFP, Julie joined an NFP listserv, and mentioned that we were struggling with it. She never said, “And so we’re thinking about ceasing to follow NFP,”… Continue reading Rod Dreher-A Dissent on Ecological Breastfeeding

Time Magazine this week (pdf. article) has examples of food prices that have gone up since 2003: Wonder Bread up 74% Boneless center-cut pork chop up 124% Farmland Skim Plus milk up 38% Arnold Stone-Ground wheat bread up 36% Rib-eye steak up 64% Carr’s water crackers up 39% Bird’s Eye frozen sweet corn up 28%… Continue reading Food Prices: oh eating, who needs it?

I think like many a parent, I am semi-outraged by the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photos.I have a 15-year old and I’ll be damned before I let her take pictures implying she is naked… with a bed sheet making people wonder why she is naked with a bed sheet…and 15. Never mind, grossed out. However,… Continue reading This Says It All

I was following Berylla around the vestibule of the Church this morning, where she picked up a prayer card and proceeded to take bites out of it. I took it from her and read the back. It had this uplifting quote from Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty: The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She… Continue reading For My Fellow Mommies

Last night while we were sitting on the couch watching Top Chef, and my daughter randomly pinched me on the arm. I looked at her and said “Hey, what was that for?” “I just wanted to see what you would do…” “Huh?” “Well, I did this to each of my brothers and they all had… Continue reading Ouch!

Does anyone, or has anyone had a baby that is so darn clingy, that even at the ripe old age of six months, screams bloody murder everytime you put her down to go to the bathroom, or cook, put her in the shopping cart, car seat, or whatever. And she will not go to anyone… Continue reading Am I The Only One??

A twin leans over and kisses the cheek of her sister in a heart-warming picture that would not be out of place in any family home. Yet these siblings are a not even born and the astonishing images have been captured on a new ‘four-dimensional’ ultrasound scan of the womb. Via the Daily Eudemon.