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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her work, the two …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Guest Bloggers

Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Elizabeth Foss

Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss, an award winning columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald, published her first book, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home in 2003. The book is now in its third printing. Her popular blog, In the Heart of My Home is a source of inspiration and support for Catholic women …
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Oh the Glamour!

Behind the podcast

Sometime tomorrow we will be posting this week’s Faith & Family Live! podcast, a conversation between Danielle, Arwen and me.

This week we discussed vacation and exercise (not at the same time) and because I am in the throes of packing for vacation, and thus trying to run a million errands, I did some juggling to “get to” the podcast.

I decided to make the call en route to the grocery store, thus not having to worry about making sure the house was totally quiet. But I didn’t want to drive while we were actually recording, so I headed to McDonald’s and got a nice yummy tea. I parked the car and fed the baby while I chatted with the girls.

You should have seen me! There I sat in my Suburban in the McDonald’s parking lot, wedged between two car seats, nursing the baby while wearing my headset. I was the essence of the modern, professional woman.

Unfortunately Isabel started to cry a bit as I ever-so-quietly burped her. As I put her back in the seat, I covered the mouthpiece so the listener wouldn’t be treated to baby wailing and it turns out that mouthpiece has a built-in off button. That little chime sound you will hear when you listen this week—that’s the sound of me clicking out of the conversation, accidentally hanging up on my fellow podcasting sisters.

“Ack!,” I texted Danielle, “I just disconnected myself!”

I got my wits about me and decided to try calling the number again. And sure enough it worked. A few minutes later, I magically reappear, rejoining the conversation as if I never even left.

And now you know…the rest of the story.


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So funny, reminds me of myself. 11 years ago, when I had my first baby, I was still in the upper management of a big Insurance/finAncial services company on NY. The senior management I interacted with every day were stereotypical males, you can imagine. I didn’t have much of a maternity leave. I was on conference calls all through labor, until I could no longer speak. At about one weak post partum they needed me back on the phone. I had a headset phone with a mute button. I happily participated in hours worth of conference calls, all while nursing my beAutiful baby. Noone ever knew, and it still makes me laugh at what the reactions of these stuffy old men would have been if they could see what was going on on my end of the phone…


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