He’s here. Our little boy arrived a few days early on January 24 at a healthy nine pounds, two ounces with a head full of platinum blonde hair. He is a content baby, sleeping well and generally ignoring the chaos around him. He has apparently fully embraced as his eighth child motto, “Don’t complain, no […]

"When I was a child, Sunday was a day of faith and family. The day centered around the 11:15 Mass at St. Anthony’s, which we attended with my grandparents. Then Nana and Papa would come back to our house for a large family dinner. Dinner was always of the big roasted thing or huge pot […]

On August 14 my husband took my two oldest sons, 13 and 5, on their annual father-son camping trip. They gather with six or seven other dads and their sons and spend four days doing manly things that never seem to involve a change of clothes or a shower. They take their Breviaries and rosary […]

“Are they all yours?”                    I get asked that at least twice a week. It doesn’t bother me much. I realize having seven children makes me a bit unique by societal norms. It’s one of those questions that pop out of people’s mouths when they see me and my […]

"Spring is such a wonderful time of year. May is the month of Mary, mothers and lately, I’ve noticed, immodesty.  A few weeks ago at church I found myself sitting behind a beautiful young lady who was dressed in pajama pants and a spaghetti strapped top that did not meet the top of her pants. […]