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Heaven in Your Home Letters

Family Stories + Photos = Confidence (and Much More)

August 11, 2020

What if we told you that we know of a simple set of practices proven to decrease children’s anxiety and behavioral problems, while strengthening their identity in Christ? Read on, because we found it. And it’s downright enjoyable. In the second…

Light in August

August 4, 2020

Dear Friend,

The Magic of Camp & Grandparents

July 28, 2020

Dear Friend, “Would you two like to get away for a week this summer while we watch your kids?” Soren’s parents asked us on a memorable phone call in 2007. Pregnant, and with 4- and 2-year-olds screaming in the background,…

How to Fix Stuff (and Other Secrets of Happy Families)

July 21, 2020

Dear Friend, While sheltering at home earlier this year, our family embarked on a series of ambitious DIY projects that will likely keep us busy well into next year. In March, we shared how we were enlarging our vegetable patch. Another…

The Truth Will Make You Odd

July 14, 2020

Dear Friend, This week, our family is visiting relatives in New Orleans. On the way down, we pulled off the highway in Milledgeville, Georgia, the hometown of a favorite southern writer, Flannery O’Connor, and attended a weekday Mass at the parish where she worshipped…

Your Home. Your Monastery.

July 7, 2020

Dear Friend, “We hope this message finds you happy and healthy!” the cheery voicemail from our kids’ school began late last week. We could hear the “but” coming though, as the tone of voice shifted. And sure enough, the…

Sharing Heaven with Strangers

June 30, 2020

Dear Friend, “Um…that was awkward!” That’s what we sometimes hear from our three teens or two younger children after they see us chatting with strangers at Trinity House Café, the grocery check-out aisle, the church vestibule, or elsewhere. Even before Covid-19 thrust us into even…

This Just In: You Need a Vacation

June 23, 2020

Dear Friend, “Fear, pain, anxiety, betrayal, stress,” our pastor said in his homily last Sunday. “Our emotions are all over the place,” he said, before drawing our attention to the words of Jesus in the Gospel reading: “Be not afraid.” Now is…

The Sacred Heart’s Summer Schedule

June 17, 2020

The Alexa Homily

June 3, 2020

Dear Friend, On Pentecost Sunday, we went on a family daytrip, and at the church we visited, heard a homily which we are still discussing. The priest recounted how, a few Christmases ago, he was gifted an Alexa, which to this day remains unopened…

The Family That Walks Together…

May 26, 2020

Dear Friend, In mid-March when everything went sideways, one of the first memorable things we did as a family was a two-hour traipse through the countryside behind our home, somehow finding a path we had never hiked before. The kids scuffled and…

A Mom and Dad Walk Into a Room…

May 19, 2020