In a new heartfelt and very personal essay for Our Sunday Visitor, author and mother Diana Vallette writes that, in the past, she would cry on Christmas because, as she put it, “the stress of the holidays has built up inside me
Catholic mom Diana Vallette shares what she has learned from raising an atypical child. She writes: “I’m learning (slowly and badly) that an adversity free life isn’t part of God’s plan for any of us. I know my plan for my children
Days before Hurricane Laura devastated southwest Louisiana, Diana Vallette and her husband decided to pack up their four children and ride out the storm in Texas. She writes in an essay for Our Sunday Visitor that they watched from afar as the
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, writer Diana Vallette writes about the trepidation parents face as they take their children back to school during a global pandemic. She writes: “Parenting is a series of unprecedented events over and over and over.