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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 together they are the parents of five lively boys. Besides being a mom, she is also a writer and a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has maintained her personal blog at Testosterhome.net where she …
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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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Let's Talk About the Candy

What's your favorite?

Happy Easter!

Now that the long season of Lent is finally over, can we talk about something important? Like ... Easter candy? You know your house is full of it.

After reading about all the fun and creative things readers here do for their families at Easter, I am eager to know this too: What’s your favorite candy? What treats were a hit this year with you and your family?

I’ve blogged before about... READ MORE 


In Which I Get Easter Crafty

Today's Eggs-citing Achievement

(If pretty crafting-with-kids posts intimidate you, make sure you scroll all the way down for this crafty post’s reality check)

Hey, we did it!

I am talking about that cute-looking Easter egg decorating craft from Kristen Laurence that I posted earlier this week, of course.

I’m pretty proud of myself, actually. This crafty stuff really does require me stepping outside of my comfort zone a bit.

We... READ MORE 


Cookie Eggs

Can’t get enough egg decorating?

Here’s yet another form, with step-by-step instructions.


Egg-cellent Idea for Easter

I think I can do this
Kristen's decoupage beauties

I am so inspired!

Check out the gorgeous eggs Kristen Laurence and her girls made! This is one of those links that I bookmarked around Easter Monday of last year ... and I actually remembered to click it on time for our eggy activities this year.

Mod Podge? Napkins? Eggs? I think even this craft-challenged mom can handle that. We’ll still do our traditional PAAS egg-dipping on Saturday morning, but I am going to pick up some items at the craft store later today and give this more “grown up” version a try too.


Dyeing for Some Fun

5 Ways to Keep it Simple

This will be our fifteenth year of decorating Easter eggs on Holy Saturday. I guess that makes it a Bean family tradition.

Over the years, we’ve experimented a bit with different techniques. Natural dyes can be a lot of fun—art and science all in one!

With just a bit of preparedness, decoupage can produce some strikingly beautiful eggs (Check out Kristen’s gorgeous results).

Some of our chickens... READ MORE 


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