My Old Unorganized Life When life isn’t organized, we suffer for it. Our minds are filled with the pressure of all the things we should be doing. Even when we take a moment to relax, we feel guilty because there is so much left to do. 24 hours in a day doesn’t feel like enough. …
The Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos While all Marian Feasts are awesome, wonderful, and special, the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos has a special place in my heart. It is my firstborn daughter’s day of birth (Little Fox). Also called the Assumption of Mary, the feast of Dormition falls on the 15th …
Moving with a Baby Moving with a newborn was difficult, sure. It was three or four months before all the boxes were unpacked. And, to be fair, it wasn’t really “all the boxes” unpacked. We knew we’d be moving again in a year, so we left a good portion of the home library in boxes, …
The Byzantine Life All the cool Catholics are joining the Byzantine Rite of the Catholic Church. Well, Matt Fradd made the leap. (And my husband! Though his family is already Ukrainian and his spiritual formation was at our local Ukrainian Catholic elementary school). Anyway, at one point or another, you’ve probably heard about someone transferring …
Christian Board Books for Babies! Our family spends a lot of time at church. We might be there for Divine Liturgy, a moleben, a talk/study, or some other church event. Now that we have a little one, we like to do our best to help her be calm, quiet, and (somewhat) attentive to what is …
Teaching Your Baby to Talk Studies have shown that babies in quiet households are delayed in learning to talk (and also to read)! I don’t know about you, but when I am alone I rarely think about saying anything out loud. When baby number one came, that didn’t change. So I knew I needed to …
This week I want to share with you three of the most amazing books I’ve read about parenting. These books have all changed my outlook and improved my understanding of children. Every parent should read these books. I especially appreciate how the wisdom is adaptable for families to match with their own values. A Solid …
While I was pregnant with our first baby, I spent a long time searching “how many baby clothes do we need in each size.” Although I found several different posts on various blogs, none of them really fit with how I ended up using clothes with Little Fox. There are numerous factors which go into …
Part 2: Daytime Solutions After A Rough Night So last week we talked about some ways to handle parenting at night. (If you missed that article, check it out here). This week we are going to go through some options for what you can do to survive through the day. It is 5:30 in the …
Part 1: Nighttime Solutions When You Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep With a Baby Just when you think that your baby has this sleep thing down, maybe even reaching five or six hours straight of sleep, it happens. You’re up to the-world-is-ending cries every one to two hours, and you start to feel like you’ll never …
