Dash (age 2.5) likes to talk about what he wants to be when he grows up. This week he wants to be “a flatbed truck driver with a forklift.” Tonight Grandma asked him, “What is Mommy was going to be when she grows up?”Dash: “A Daddy.”Grandma: “And what is Daddy going to be when he grows up?”Dash: “A Grandma.” Read more

Mary (age 3): I am a mommy doctor. I am a mommy and a doctor, so I have two heads, a mommy head and a doctor head. One head comes out of my cheek. Read more

My brother was married this weekend, and naturally this got me thinking about family and relationships. As parenting is never far from my mind these days, I was also thinking about the attachment parenting and breastfeeding discussions we have been having here, and I was surprised to find some important lessons for my own parenting. I come from a remarkably close knit family. As young adults, my brothers continue to be one another’s best friends, and though they are living... Read more

For those unfamiliar with this blog, here’s a few of my crunchy credentials: I cloth diaper, I make my own granola, I’ve had a non-hospital birth, I shop at a farmer’s market, a good deal of my food is organic, I own the Ergo baby carrier, I exclusively nurse my babies for six months and I continue nursing well-beyond, I frequent Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Con blog, and, as revealed in a previous post, I’m considering growing a moss backyard :-)... Read more

With the recent purchase of our new home, GG and I have taken to our green thumb past… I was a landscaper the summer before entering Princeton, flower planting, weeding, trimming, etc. for hours and hours in the hot sun. It was nothing less than slave labor, but I loved the feeling of having my hands in the dirt and wiping my face without a care of how smudgy it would look at the end of the day. GG was... Read more

Great comments on my recent CCL post! Just to answer a few questions: 1. The new book and materials were released in February/March of 2008. All new CCL courses are now using the new materials. They are still working on the training programs for the “specialized” courses in return of fertility after childbirth and pre-menopause. The student guide book is complete, but the teacher training in these areas is still a little rough. It will be complete in the coming... Read more

The Couple to Couple League (CCL) is the largest provider of Natural Family Planning (NFP) services in the US, and it has recently gone through an extreme makeover. Making a break with the Kippleys (author of: Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing, Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood, The Art of Natural Family Planning), CCL is now promoting a more high tech, streamlined, and scientific approach to NFP. They have also adopted an altered approach to breastfeeding and child spacing and for that... Read more

Help! My child won’t eat!  With the onset of teething a few weeks ago, 7 month-old Maria has decided that she is NOT interested in eating anything except for mommy’s milk 🙂 Now clearly, the little munchkin is not starving, but she is constantly HUNGRY and I’m having a hard time figuring out what to feed her! She has never been terribly interested in pureed baby foods, but now I can’t even push the spoon into her mouth – when... Read more

“Heavenly Father, today we remember those who courageously gave their lives for the cause of freedom. In union with people of goodwill of every nation, may we all work for peace and justice, and thus, seek to end violence and conflict anywhere around the globe. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen” ~Cardinal Maida~ Read more