Our Next Project (A Minimize the Mess Review)
One of our big goals this summer is to reorganize our little apartment while Dave is out of school. Particularly our downstairs storage area because first comes love of things that don’t fit in our...
View ArticleBringing YOU to Your Home (A Brick House in the City GIVEAWAY)
It’s funny how our sense of style changes over the years. Not only in the way we dress ourselves, but in the way we dress our homes, too. When we first moved in to our small apartment, I was so...
View ArticleGeorge’s Curious George 1st Birthday Party
Ok, ok, you can stop begging … I know you’re dying for a mom to tell you all about her son’s first birthday party … Three months later. Well weep no longer, I’m here with enough details to put People...
View ArticleWhen Instagram Ruins Your Day
It happened again this week. That pit in the stomach, that flush of the face, that feeling of shame and discontentment, right in the midst of a particularly beautiful day in my own life. And it had...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Eyewear
If you look closely enough at my face, particularly my eye region, then you may notice a scar in the midst of my left eyebrow where the eyebrow no longer grows. That little scar has been with my since...
View ArticleFinding Your Core
Deep breath. Press the keys. Our six-week-old daughter was hungry for milk and my six-week-old postpartum body was hungry for healing. I nursed the first and placed her swaddled, sleeping self in...
View ArticleBlessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Quotes
I’ve dished before about why we think Pier Giorgio Frassati is awesome enough to make him the patron saint of our family and name our first-born after him. Even Fr. Robert Barron thinks he’s a baller....
View Article9 Things that Helped During My Health-Related Anxiety
I don’t need to tell you about what weird, unprecedented circumstances we’re living. I’m assuming you’re all caught up on the chaos of the coronavirus. So let’s not waste time diving into the...
View ArticleMy Morning Spiritual Exercises (a la Saint Francis de Sales)
Reading Saint Francis de Sales is like a reverse fine wine: it gets better as we age. I first read his spiritual classic, An Introduction to the Devout Life, in a Christian Spirituality class I took...
View ArticleWhat I Read | April 2020
I’m always interested in what other people are reading, as I’m always on the hunt for more TBR fodder. So I thought I’d start sharing what I’ve been reading each month in case you’re looking for...
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