Family
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What I Wish I’d Known
SAVING GRACE you don’t do it for yourself you don’t do it for your kids you don’t do it for your husband you don’t do it for company you do it for God God sees God hears God knows even… Continue reading
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Weekend Recap / Brain Dump 22 September 2019
Sunday afternoon. Bong’s ironing clothes for our Prague/Vienna trip :D, Paco just got home from being with SSP folks, Nino’s waiting for Yena to wake up so they can play Lego Star Wars. Migi’s coming home tonight from DC (visiting… Continue reading
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Revisiting the HP Dilemma: What’s A Parent to do?
I hesitated writing this post for my friend because almost every single discussion I’ve seen or been in online about HP eventually devolved into personal attacks. There are good arguments on both sides of the divide, so it pays to… Continue reading
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Mothers, Daughters, Rape, and Abortion
You’ve seen all the articles on abortion going around. You’ve seen all the pro-choice and pro-life arguments. I’m addressing this to the mom who has daughters, wondering if she could counsel her daughter to keep a child, should her daughter… Continue reading
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Remembering Papa
My earliest memory of Papa is of him sitting on the side of his and mommy’s bed, in the early morning hours when it was still dark, praying. He left all of us a legacy of faith. It was at… Continue reading
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I Need to Write Again
I haven’t written regularly since July of last year. February was my last blog post. Somewhere along the way, I thought, maybe July would be a great time to start again. But here I am. I’ve made notes upon notes… Continue reading
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Q&A: How should we, as atheist parents, talk to our kids about god and religion?
Answering as a Catholic here. 🙂 Even people raised religious have to own their faiths at some point. Every religious person at some point in their life questions why they believe what they believe, and whether they will continue believing,… Continue reading
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Life Begins at Conception
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.10″ src=”https://andthesethygifts.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/bec1c-ultrasound.jpeg” url=”https://unsplash.com/photos/8y4nXtN-qb8″ url_new_window=”on” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.10″] This was a compilation I put together in 2012 for our homeschooling group. —– in case it helps. some references. At the moment when a human sperm penetrates a human ovum,… Continue reading
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A Character Report Card for Catholic Homeschoolers
We’ve been using this character report card sporadically for a while now. We updated it recently so we can use it with the 9-year-old who needs this kind of guidance and self-monitoring at this time. So I thought I’d share… Continue reading
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Even Sporadic NFP Use Has Many Untold Benefits
Image: Liv Bruce My husband and I were one of those Catholic couples who got married not knowing about Natural Family Planning (NFP). We planned to have kids right away and were ultimately shooting for six kids (five for a basketball… Continue reading
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