Right now, God-willing, I’m about 11 weeks shy of giving birth to my second child. It’s an exciting, nerve-wracking, wondrous time, all wrapped up into one. Like most expectant parents, the one question my husband and I have gotten the most, by
When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, Hope, fatherhood was still somewhat of an abstraction for me. Infant clothes, onesies, diapers and baby furniture began filling the room that would become a nursery, but I was still pretty oblivious to what
Forgive me, but I just have to share a Proud Mama moment with you. It happened at the bottom of the stairs in our home, when Joseph, now 14 months old, and I were standing and looking at the image of the
When I was small, I was fascinated by a framed cross-stitch hanging on a wall in my parents’ home. I read the words over and over, even setting them to my own tune. “Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow … for
Parents often feel self-conscious taking their small children to church. We worry that our little ones will disturb others or prevent us from “getting anything out of Mass.” While we do need to be sensitive to people around us and it can