Showing posts with label big families. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big families. Show all posts
Friday, August 10, 2018

The Worth of It

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How do you do it?  Anywhere someone discovers we have ten kids, the question comes up.  I understand.  It's unusual.  My flippant answer...
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Today I Have Two Pieces

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It's been a good week for writing.  I have a piece over at the  National Catholic Register  about how children teach us how to love ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

He Keeps Surprising Me

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My son's communication device has afforded us many moments we might otherwise have missed.  "Alligator, frog, bug" means ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

My Catholic Bonifieds Mean Squato

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Recently, David Mills wrote  A Marxist Lesson for Breeding Catholics , arguing that those who espouse Catholic teaching and have many child...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Rabbit Questions

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" G od gives you means to be responsible. Some think that — excuse the language — that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be lik...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

The Other Side of the Story

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Adolescence isn't easy, especially when you are trying to carve out your own identity and feel so utterly stamped by your family.  I kn...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Educate Me

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I was in such a good mood today.  I'd received a call from my sister-in-law about a treat for one of my sons, a visit with a long lost c...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Saturday Spambot Selection from 11/11/11

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It's Spambot Saturday. Join in.  Look at your spambox for a comment you would otherwise delete and then repost the piece it was attached...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Are You Crazy?

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It doesn't bother me when people ask about our having a large family, but I've never quite known how to gracefully answer the questi...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Why You Have to Do Your Homework

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10) Because some day, you will have to help your munchkins with their homework and it's frankly embarrasing to have to google the formul...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Half a Duggar

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You knew I was going to have to talk about this sometime didn't you?  As a mom of ten, I've heard the quips, the canards, the snip...
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Why We Don't Have a TV show

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Every once in a while, when I meet someone new and they learn that I have ten children, they ask, "So why don't you have a televisi...
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Friday, June 3, 2011

You Have a Large Family If...

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It's my version of you might be a Redneck.  1) You Might Have a large family IF...the Suburban is the small car. 2) You Might Have a...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Mothering the Sous Chef Way

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You know those cooking shows where the smiling perfectly coifed chef whips up four fabulous healthy dishes in 30 minutes? They have a secret...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

World's Smallest Cross

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Every so often it happens. Someone makes a comment about the size of our family and sometimes, it can be met with grace and charity, other t...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Even This

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Back when I was pregnant for the second time, I read an article on how to break it to your existing child that a new kid was on the way.  Th...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Did I say that?

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Memo: My computer is being retooled. (stupid virus).  That leaves me precious little time on the old machine.  Thus, you get a microwaved fr...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Triumph is Not Mine

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Every Thursday, Family& Faith Live celebrates the little victories that make life something beyond survival, that indicate the times whe...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

No one is Forcing You to Change

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I know the President has said on many occasions that "If we like our current insurance policy, the government will not make us abandon ...
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Friday, January 2, 2009

Be it Never So Humble, This is Our Home

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In the cosmic struggle between order and chaos that takes place on a daily basis on the great battlefield known as my home, the one sure los...
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