___1___ I wrote yesterday about teaching a holistic, healthy sexuality to our children. I’d love to have more perspectives from parents of older kids. Hint, hint. 🙂 ___2___ As long as I’m asking for advice, I have a sleep question. Michael is now four months old, and he’s having a lot of trouble sleeping during…
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The Passing of the Baby Years
It crept up on me, this wistfulness. A Â feeling that these days are slipping away like pearls through my fingers. The way he looks at me and the wiggles settle into stillness. The way his whole face lights up when he smiles, just because I looked at him and said hello. Moments that make my…
Read MoreTwenty-Seven Days
If you knew you only had twenty-seven days, how would you live life differently? I spoke recently to a friend whose daughter gave birth to a child they knew was not going to live. Indeed, it was a miracle that the child was not stillborn. “People tiptoe around us,” she said. “They’re afraid to ask.…
Read MoreIn The Moment
When your voice rouses me from deep sleep, a hair shy of 4:30 in the morning, I can tell from the intensity of your anger that you’ve been trying to get my attention for several minutes. I went to bed worried about your cough and your lack of appetite, so your energy in protesting my…
Read MoreIn Which I Discover A Whole New Way To Feel Like A Loser Mom
You would think by the time you hit kid #4, you’d have it all figured out–at least, all the baby stuff. Right? Or…not. This is a story about Tylenol. Or, since we’re a generic type family, acetaminophen. Michael had his 2-month well baby visit on Monday. You know what that means–shots. Michael’s face went beet-red–I…
Read More7QT: Of Moles and Munchkins (mostly)
___1___ It’s almost Lent, folks! I know, I’m ahead of the game, but I have a good reason: I am hosting a giveaway for my new book, Bring Lent To Life. If you’re a Catholic mother with young (or youngish) children, click over and leave a comment for a chance to win a signed copy! Okay, now…
Read MoreThe Milk Maid’s Postpartum Journey (a 7QT post)
(Men: I’m being pretty woman-frank today. Consider yourself warned.) ___1___ When I was pregnant with Alex, I was all about natural childbirth. I was one of those people that annoys the doctor by clarifying again and again and again that I DON’T want an epidural, I DON’T want forceps and episiotomy, and so on. Of…
Read MoreA Thousand Words (Images from a baptism weekend)
My cousin Chrissy, my very first and very longest friendship, spanning 32 out of 37 years, with her husband Ed and their godson Michael, on Dec. 30th when they arrived. Don’t we have a picture of Julianna and Nicholas looking at each other just like this? New Year’s Eve it was 60 degrees and we took a nature walk…
Read MoreThe Scent of Heaven
“And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.“ Luke 2:19, NAB When I went into the hospital on November 30th, I gave myself permission to take it easy for a while. I was supposed to have a whole lot more done before that happened–a proposed table of contents for a new…
Read MoreBeautiful Chaos
Image via Wikipedia We didn’t expect much of a crowd this weekend. After all, it’s our fourth child, and the only reason we got a lot of attention this go-round was the NICU drama. I asked my cousin–my oldest, best friend, ever since she was four and I was five and we lived three thousand…
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Kathleen M. Basi 