You know the song, “Here Comes Santa Clause?” Well, I have a new version … Here comes overwhelm, Here comes overwhelm, Right down overwhelm lane! Presents and travel and all the parties, pullin’ on our brain! Friends are callin’, children bawlin’, all is busy and bright… Take a deep breath and say your prayers, cause […]

One of my very favorite Catholic songs is “It Was His Delight to Walk Among Men” by Marie Bellet. Go listen and enjoy! Then come back. I’ll wait. So when I decided to write a Busy Moms’ Retreat for Advent, I knew I wanted to include her song as one of the retreat resources! Marie […]

I’ve seen and talked to not a few frazzled moms after managing their small children at Mass lately, and this post on my old blog came to mind! I wrote this on Friday, August 5, 2016 when my children were 14, 11, 6, and 3. I was past the baby stage and able to actually […]

When we were stuck at home in 2020, so many of us were posting on social media about how blessed we were to have our families. While we were driving one another a bit crazy, there was a genuine understanding, amidst the uncertainty of a pandemic, that it was better to be trapped in a […]

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is one of my favorite Catholic days! Celebrating the Cross on which our Savior suffered and died an unjust, painful, bloody crucifixion out of love for the world is so uniquely Christian. The non-Christian world (and maybe some Christians, too) cannot understand why we love this […]