Losing Relevance

30Jun10

Subtitled “Make new friends, but keep the old.” Ha! My greatest fear when I was younger was being forgotten. I think this stems from moving around while growing up and always being the new girl, without a place to really, truly belong outside of my family.  I was great at jumping in the conversation and [...]

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Couldn’t have said it better

30Jun10

If you guys don’t read That Married Couple, you really should!  Elizabeth’s over there posting on a lot of interesting topics (from leaving the bathroom door open to apologetics!), but I was really impressed by her post today on Onan’s sin. Its commonly known (at least in the Catholic world) that all Christians were formally, [...]

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We’re getting smarter…in all ways!

28Jun10

My brother-in-law sent my husband and I an interesting article published in the New York Times from this past weekend, entitled Educated Women Opting for Motherhood.  Did anyone else happen to see it? The crux of the article is that in general, the percentages of women not having children are increasing across racial and ethnic [...]

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Take 7 (15)

25Jun10

Feeling too wordy lately, so I’m going to do a Quick Takes of pictures from this last week.  More fun for everybody :) 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Our half bathroom, newly painted: 2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 Huge caterpillar on the parsley 333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 My grandpa on his 85th birthday (NOT his 58th…he was in denial!). 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 Enjoying the festivities. 55555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555 Monkey bread [...]

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Children as commodities

24Jun10

I read a post at Project M the other day about why couples desire to have children.  I thought it was really beautifully written and brought up a lot of points that my own husband and I have come to as well.  In summary, Kathleen describes how the desire to share her love with her [...]

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That monthly talk

23Jun10

The sympto-thermal NFP course that we teach covers not only the scientific explanation for why the method works and how to use it, but also how NFP promotes a more joyful marriage focused on true couple unity and why the Church teaches against contraception. Unfortunately, many of our clients are engaged couples who have never [...]

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Just relax

22Jun10

This is undoubtedly the most frequent advice I receive from anyone when I let them in on the personal issue that has been most troubling to our marriage thus far:  our desire for children and our inability to have them so far. If you’re in this same place then you know, this is probably the [...]

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Take 7 (14)

18Jun10

1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I’m really, really tired today.  My only excuse is that I was up late mourning celebrating the Laker’s win.  Again.  I need to wake up and get it together! 2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 That reminds me of another conversation I had with Jennifer Roback Morse of the Ruth Institute a few months ago, when we talked about [...]

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“Its not that we didn’t try”

16Jun10

I saw this video about 5 years ago when it first came out on PBS and its still resonating in my ears… Its a special about this amazing female professor who is working on a cure for cancer using nanoshells.  A cure for cancer, people. She was interviewed by PBS in order to not only [...]

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Home Improvements

15Jun10

I’ve been talking a lot about all the work we’ve been doing in our home lately but I never posted any pictures.  Maybe that’s because when I look at the pictures I think, wow! All that work and that’s all the improvement??? Ha!  At least I feel better and it gives me something to do.  [...]

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