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What This Catholic Wants in a President (And How the Candidates Measure Up) – Part Two | These Walls
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Sharing stories from within the walls of my home; encouraging discourse on the wider world outside them. Motherhood and Family Life. What This Catholic Wants in a President (And How the Candidates Measure Up) Part Two. August 13, 2015. Welcome to Part Two of my (who-knows-how-many-parts) series:. For an introduction of the series and an explanation of how my Catholic faith has influenced my political outlook, please see Part One. I Consider Myself) Pragmatic on the Boring Basics. I want one to whom bipar...
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7 Quick Takes on Last Night’s Debate (Vol. 35) | These Walls
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Sharing stories from within the walls of my home; encouraging discourse on the wider world outside them. Motherhood and Family Life. 7 Quick Takes on Last Night’s Debate (Vol. 35). August 7, 2015. Has it really been a full week since I’ve posted? Nah can’t be. At least it doesn’t feel like it, because I’ve been doing so much writing. (Which has felt great! To get something out in time for last night’s debates, but I just couldn’t pull it off. C’est la vie. I think it might be) next week:. Is there anyone...
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7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol. 34): He’s Not Afraid to Climb the Roof, But I’m Afraid to Ride a Bike | These Walls
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Sharing stories from within the walls of my home; encouraging discourse on the wider world outside them. Motherhood and Family Life. 7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol. 34): He’s Not Afraid to Climb the Roof, But I’m Afraid to Ride a Bike. July 24, 2015. Wait, what did I say about posting every day this week? Because yesterday came and went, and as far as I know, I didn’t post a thing. (Shhh). For those of you visiting from 7QT, here are links to Monday’s (late) 7QT post. There’s more to come I promise. Anyway, B...
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My Moral Dilemma As A Catholic SMA Mom – This Ain't The Lyceum
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My Moral Dilemma As A Catholic SMA Mom. Living life as a devout Catholic, one who feels that everything the Church teaches applies to your everyday life, is hard. At best, we are misunderstood, our decisions considered backward or misguided. At worst, the world can be unaccepting and hostile towards those who choose to make sacrifices and hard decisions based on matters of faith….all in the name of tolerance of course. What would I do if a cure was found by using fetal stem cell lines? The Catholic idea ...
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{SQT} The Face of Sainthood and Crowdsourcing for Gifts – This Ain't The Lyceum
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SQT} The Face of Sainthood and Crowdsourcing for Gifts. I had a lot of grandiose plans for this week’s takes, but then I decided to finally KonMari. The house while we were off school AND squeeze in a ton of last minute doctors appointments… so, yeah, my house is a disaster, I haven’t completed lesson plans for our last trimester of school (starting Monday! And I’m woefully behind in updating my Facebook statuses. Friends, fans; please accept these takes with my humblest apologies. Imagine a photo of a b...
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Real Estate Related Brain Dump | This Felicitous Life
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Books, books, books! Style and the SAHM. Blogging conundrums for non-visual types, plus other quick takes →. Real Estate Related Brain Dump. May 1, 2015. Is brain dump a vulgar expression? It sounds kind of crude to me. But I wouldn’t know; I was homeschooled. And anyway, a brain dump is what it is. But with a real estate motif:. 1 We are probably moving, after all. That if we get a bigger space we’ll just fill it with more stuff. *sigh*. 4 What we’re doing first is refinancing our current mortgage...
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Wonderful Because They’re Them: Thoughts on Mothering All Boys | These Walls
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Sharing stories from within the walls of my home; encouraging discourse on the wider world outside them. Motherhood and Family Life. Wonderful Because They’re Them: Thoughts on Mothering All Boys. July 22, 2015. I thought, too, on whether this child will be revealed to be our fourth boy or our first girl. Watching him, I realized that I can hardly help. Think of him as a boy. It’s what I know. So as much as I’d love to have a girl, I know I’ll be fine if he indeed proves to be a. I’m in neither of those ...
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Another to Love | These Walls
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Sharing stories from within the walls of my home; encouraging discourse on the wider world outside them. Motherhood and Family Life. July 7, 2015. On Saturday I wished a happy Independence Day to my friends and family and the blog’s Facebook page. With the following photo, captioned:. Happy Fourth of July from me and my FOUR! We’re expecting our fourth baby! This newest little guy/gal (who are we kidding it’s probably a guy) is due to arrive around January 31. 2016 I’m currently about ten weeks along.
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Here’s to Another Fifty-Four | These Walls
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Sharing stories from within the walls of my home; encouraging discourse on the wider world outside them. Motherhood and Family Life. Here’s to Another Fifty-Four. July 11, 2015. Today is my sixth wedding anniversary and I’m not at all prepared: I have no card, no gift, and haven’t given any thought to how we might celebrate, except for some vague idea that we’ll go out to dinner once my morning sickness. Tomorrow, we’ll again gather together with much of our family to celebrate my grandparents’. Our live...