Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. 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 
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Difficult Discussion
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, January 20, 2012
This weekend for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, our parish is having its usual prayer vigil. We signed up for a half-hour time slot. Bryan’s going and I suggested he might take our five-year-old daughter with him.
But I wasn’t surprised when he hesitated. Because, you see, we haven’t explained to Camilla about abortion yet.
We did participate in the local pregnancy care center’s fill-a-bottle-with-coins... READ MORE
Deviled Eggs Dressed Up
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Food on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Smitten Kitchen is my favorite food blog, and last month she had recipe for Caesar salad deviled eggs that I bookmarked immediately. Then I got busy with cooking for Christmas and forgot all about it.
Fast forward to January when - having resolved to add protein to my diet - I pulled the recipe up again, only to discover upon careful reading that it’s fairly fussy. It involves two pans and a mixing... READ MORE
Thriving!
Features | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Sunday, January 15, 2012
I’ll admit it: when I read the title and opening paragraphs of Jen Fulwiler’s recent post at the National Catholic Register blog, I stifled a sigh. The piece is called “Moms of Young Children: The Time to Thrive Is Now” and I was afraid I was about to read another screed about how mothers could be fit, organized, and put-together (with harmonious marriages and deep spiritual lives) if only we would... READ MORE
Winter Decorating
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Homemaking on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
When I was a kid I dreaded the end of the Christmas season when Mom took the decorations down. The house looked bereft without them.
As an adult I have more control - this explains why our tree is still up even though it’s Ordinary Time now - but eventually the greenery and twinkle lights must go. On that January day, I’m inevitably left looking around my living room feeling sad at its bareness.
Only... READ MORE
Nick that Name
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it?
Perhaps because my name has no easy nicknames and I’ve always just gone by “Arwen,” I’m fascinated by the topic of nicknames.
A few years ago I mentioned that we called my daughter Camilla “Billa,” a nickname we certainly hadn’t planned on when we carefully chose “Camilla Claire” before her birth.
But sometime around age three, “Billa” disappeared and we... READ MORE
Tiny Little Things
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, January 05, 2012
Last night a variety of factors converged in a sleep trainwreck: Linus and Ambrose both awoke every two hours all night long.
Six wakeups each times two babies. Do that piece of math and you’ll understand why I crawled out of bed in a stupor this morning.
But blessedly, I checked my email soon afterward and found a message from a dear aunt whose two boys are now in their twenties. She’d gotten our... READ MORE
Carrot Got Your Ring?
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in News on Wednesday, January 04, 2012
This beats November’s story all hollow: a Swedish woman found her wedding band a full sixteen years after she took it off and set it on the counter during some Christmas baking.
And clearly she was meant to find it, because it came into her hands right out of the ground, where a carrot in her garden had grown through it.
Isn’t that incredible?
Read the story - and see a picture of the smiling couple and the crazy carrot - here.
A 2012 Try
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Are you a perfectionist?
I am, of the frustrated sort, and it makes the start of a new year difficult. On the one hand, I’m tempted to make exhaustive lists of ways to improve myself this year. On the other hand, I dread the guilt I’d inevitably feel as the resolutions fell, one by one.
In recent years I’ve sidestepped this problem by avoiding particular resolutions in favor of more general ones.... READ MORE
Pillow Up!
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Homemaking on Thursday, December 29, 2011
I had a bright idea this Christmas: kid-sized easy chairs for my little ones to relax in. They’d love it!
Then I saw the prices on those things. Yowza! They were not in the budget this Christmas.
The Internet came to the rescue when my friend Emily posted about homemade pillow mattresses in early December. I don’t sew, but my sister does, and she generously agreed to help me.
I picked up the supplies... READ MORE
Celebrating Christmas
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Where did you sleep on Christmas Eve?
I was at home in my own bed, for only the second time since I’ve been married. And since the first time I was eight months pregnant with Blaise and the house was crowded with my parents and siblings, I’m counting Christmas 2011 as our first At Home Christmas. It was just our little family and it was lovely.
Bryan and I got married in 2002, and we’ve taken advantage... READ MORE
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