My Back Won't Always Hurt Like This

Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Saturday, August 11, 2012

When Camilla was a newborn she screamed for hours. Starting when she was three weeks old our evenings were filled with it: pacing, rocking, bouncing, driving around the neighborhood at midnight. We’d try anything to get our precious child to calm down.

During that time I read somewhere that infant fussiness peaks at six to eight weeks and I thought despondently, “We will not make it. That is a forever... READ MORE 

Relaxation Bliss

Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Tuesday, July 17, 2012

As their joint present to us for our twins’ first birthday, my parents and two youngest sisters gave my husband and me the gift of time: a night away. They would watch all our children, and we could go stay at a hotel and have a blessed half-weekend to ourselves.

We planned it for July, nine weeks after they told us about it, and Bryan and I counted down to days. Finally it came. As I told him while... READ MORE 

Cling to Your Spouse

Posted by Arwen Mosher in Marriage on Friday, July 06, 2012

Last weekend we were supposed to go visit our parents in our hometown 100 miles away, but we stayed home instead.

We’d had a busy week, and the thought of travelling was stressing me out. Our parents understood, so we cancelled our trip and settled in for a couple days of minor household chores and as much relaxing as we can manage with four kids under six.

At some point during the weekend I said... READ MORE 

Ancient Parenting

Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, June 21, 2012

My husband and I just returned from ten days in Italy, and while we were visiting the Vatican Museum I saw this statue. Don’t you love it?

I wonder if there were any debates back then about nursing in public and covering up? I’m thinking not. At one church there was a painting with a priest saying mass and a woman seated in front of him nursing her baby. Beautiful!

Caring for our babies is something... READ MORE 

Becoming Multilingual?

Posted by Arwen Mosher in Marriage on Thursday, June 21, 2012

I didn’t get my husband a card or a gift for Father’s Day. If I’d planned ahead, I would have gotten one, but I didn’t.

The funny thing is that he says it was a great day anyway. I think he used the word “wonderful” to describe it. I’m glad. But it doesn’t necessarily make sense to me.

Bryan and I have been married almost a decade, and I imagine it’ll take several more decades for us to get the hang... READ MORE 

Dwell

Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Saturday, March 31, 2012

Saturday March 31st

My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. – Ez. 37:27

If you could sit down and have a dinner conversation with any one person in history who would it be? I believe the most common answer is Jesus Christ. Why? Because not only is He the most influential man in history, He is God. God – who dwelt among His people for 33 years. Men witnessed... READ MORE 

(Finally) Loving the Moment

Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Saturday, March 31, 2012

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 

Gifts from God

Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Wednesday, March 21

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; 
my Lord has forgotten me.”
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.

What is your image of your heavenly Father? An old man with a long white beard and flowing robes? What is his temperament? A type of kindly grandfather or perhaps a stern schoolteacher... READ MORE 

Beautiful Mother Church

Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Wednesday, March 14

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place.

A few months ago there was a popular You Tube Video entitled “Why I Hate... READ MORE 

Love Souls

Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, March 09, 2012

Friday, March 9
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son’.

I love being Catholic. I love the way the Catholic faith leads people to an experience of Jesus that includes every aspect of the human person; the body, intellect, senses, memory and imagination. That is why I love making the Stations of the Cross on the Fridays of Lent. We adore you O Christ, and we praise you. ... READ MORE 

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