Moving On
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, September 14, 2012
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Yesterday we took a family trip to the local children’s museum, where we have a membership and our little ones enjoy playing in the preschooler room.
As usual, I started talking with a couple other mothers. These ones each had a young toddler in tow, and their eyes widened as I identified my brood. Yep, that one… and his identical brother… and those two big ones over there are mine too.
It’s not... READ MORE
Train Up A Child
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
That Proverb is one I learned as a girl and wrote it just now from memory (but I had to look up the verse, Proverbs 22:6). My parents had a book of Proverbs and we learned a new verse each week. I bet we hemmed and hawed about having to memorize these short lines. I don’t remember complaining but I just can’t... READ MORE
Tough Recipes
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Food on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
I have a nemesis.
Well, it’s more of a love/hate relationship, because it makes me crazy, but I can’t quit it. It’s driven me to tears - my husband laughed when he found me standing over the sink chipping away at a pan of crystallized sugar and ranting under my breath, though it’s serious business to me - but when I get it right, I know I’ll keep coming back over and over again.
Caramel sauce. My... READ MORE
Know More, Worry More
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Thursday, June 14, 2012
It’s one of those funny instinctive human reactions: if something unlikely happens to someone you know, it feels like the odds of it happening to you increase. Rarely do your odds actually change, of course, as long as you’re not talking about a family member discovering they have a genetically-linked disease. But it can FEEL that way.
And it can make being a parent in 2012 terrifying, I think. It’s... READ MORE
Just Enough
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Wednesday, June 06, 2012
This little food-for-thought post over at Bearing Blog has had me pondering for a few days now. “The decline of grace” discusses the idea that God giving us the grace we need to handle our lives’ challenges means that when our we pass from a more trying state of life into an easier one, the grace we receive also diminishes. We’re given exactly as much as we need, is the idea. No more.
The theology-major... READ MORE
Grab That Baby!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, June 01, 2012
Today I took my kids to the library and managed to keep track of all of them. I’m not sure that will still be possible once Linus and Ambrose can walk.
I’m joking, of course. We do have this lovely invention called a stroller, and it’s quite good at helping you keep track of children if you strap them into it. So we have a solution.
But on the other hand, I always feel sorry for my kids when I stick... READ MORE
The Outdoors Problem
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Ah, spring, when a young man’s thoughts turn to love, and a mother’s - at least this mother’s - turn to sending the kids outside to play already, because we’ve been cooped up in this house all winter and it is making me CRAZY.
Ahem.
Jen Fulwiler’s recent piece about the necessary evil of the McMansion got me thinking about the idyllic days of my childhood. No, seriously - allow me a moment to reminisce,... READ MORE
(Finally) Loving the Moment
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Saturday, March 31, 2012
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You’ve heard the term “babymoon”?
For me, it brings to mind a mother snuggling her newborn, blissed out on cuddles and oxytocin. Maybe she’s got dark circles under her eyes and hasn’t left the house in days, but she’s falling in love with her just-born baby. The happiness is unparalleled.
I’ve never had one of those.
Oh, I love my children, but I think I’ve mentioned that I don’t enjoy the newborn... READ MORE
On Friendship
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I was fortunate to attend the Behold conference last weekend. The speakers (especially the lovely, brave Kate Wicker) were inspiring and the Holy Spirit was definitely present there, not just in the Adoration chapel and during Mass but among all the attendees, women of every age and vocation doing their best to learn about God and serve him.
My twins came with me, and fortunately a friend came along... READ MORE
Curveballs Come
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
2011 was a rough year for our family. Blessed, incredibly so, but rough. Baby twins are not for the faint of heart, and much of the year was a blur for me.
When 2012 began, my husband and I breathed a sigh of relief, because this was going to be our year. This year life would be simple and predictable - and easier as the twins got older - and we’d be able to relax and enjoy our little family.
Except... READ MORE
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