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Since I was a stay-at-home mom, our two kids pretty much went everywhere with me. Many times, I’d pick up mom, my aunt that raised me, to take her along since she had no transportation to get back...

Periodically, I also worked cleaning our parish rectory. After the fire had destroyed the old rectory and killed our priest and his 2 fellow priests, they rebuilt the rectory. There were different...

I thought it was a challenge balancing life with just one baby, but adding another and both under two, I really wondered how our parents did it! Our newborn baby boy was miserable. We calculated how...

Exactly 20 months from our daughter’s birth, our son was born. I was not as sick during this pregnancy as I was with our daughter. But, my feet swelled a lot this time around and I gained more...

Keeping up with everyday life as a farmer’s wife, POA for my mom, other family issues, and teaching both substitute and CCD was a little overwhelming. I had to prioritize what had to be done so I...

Our daughter brought us so much joy! The first moment I saw her, I saw my biological mother. She changed so quickly and in just a few days, she seemed to look more like her daddy. She was just...

I continued this pattern of farming, taking care of cutting grass and home responsibilities during the busy farm months when my hubby was busy, and teaching the CCD classes and substitute teaching...

My heart ached for that atheists I encountered while substitute teaching. I mentioned in my Day 24 post about teaching a religion class. From the past experiences I had by this time and wanting to...

I told my husband before we were married that he had better be sure of wanting to marry me because there was no word like “divorce” in my dictionary. I may have acted like the normal early minded...

Working on a farm was really different than actually living on one and being there 24/7. From the days in the Old Testament when Adam and Eve were told they had to work the ground for their food in...