
THE NOT-SO COUTURE MOM
Seeking Serenity in Surrender and Simplicity in Motherhood

New Year, 12 Resolutions, 1 Phrase 2024
2023 slowly slips away like an Irish goodbye, silently and sneakily. Christmas lights outside and stockings inside tucked away yet the...

Tender Mercy
From the cradle to the cross, God’s tender mercy caresses all sorrows and joys of each sheep both in the herd and those wondering away.

Tis the Season for Holiday Greetings and Family Meetings
So May you also list out 23 gratitudes and increase grit as we grin not grimace through family meetings this Holiday season of greetings.

To my Daughter About her Husband
Dedicated to my husband who shows some of these traits

BABY WEIGHT
Food for enjoyment no engorgement, time to let go of hangry self

Sacraments Stillness and Silence?
How to stay active in your Catholic faith when stillness and silence are lacking.

Fair Thee Well
Sometimes we learn our greatest lessons from embarrassing moments, and we fair well by only saying “farewell.”

JOY (word for 2023) FIGHT
Fight with JOY in all circumstances!

Release Resentment
recognition, reflection, and reconciliation (also reconnection) quenches the fires of resentment.

Soul Seconds: A Holy Hour
So my busy parents with a desire to remind faithful despite limitations my your Soul Seconds add into Holy Hours.

Marvelous Mediocrity
I reveal in such joy surrendering the false idol of being extraordinary to succumb to the delightful way of the ordinary.

Get Over Yourself
Controversial thought moving from ourselves to beyond ourselves

The Boring Rosary Brings Restoration
So may we Catholics become spiritually jacked-up with the soul-stretching and strengthening effects of the rosary!

Happy 30th Earthly Birthday and 3rd Heavenly One
Dear Carolyn, My big, bossy, beautiful, and beloved sister, Happy 30th earthly birthday, and third heavenly one. So many threes- a...
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