Coffee & Pearls: Wisdom For Catholic Moms

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Don't be an optimist. What? Find out why I think optimism can be dangerous and how we should adjust our attitudes instead!

How rough was that week? I've got an exercise for you and a separate exercise you can do with your spouse to end the week on a peaceful note!

Guess what, lady? This is not a sprint, it's a marathon. Let's start training for this.

Your job right now is to bring peace to your home. Let me share some ideas for how to do that!

You know you should be grateful. You've heard about keeping a gratitude journal. Listen to this to find out the ins and outs of why this practice is powerful and exactly how to practice it!

Stuck at home with your whole family? Here's how to have real peace even amidst the chaos.

The internet will no doubt be covered by hearts, candy, balloons, and more today. Once again a Catholic holiday (holy-day) has been co-opted by our secular culture. I don't mind the pictures, actually. We have a lovely book about St. Valentine and I think he would be proud that people stop and do nice things for their loved ones today.  Where we get in trouble is when we believe that the absence of candy and balloons means an absence of love... or that love means warm and romantic feelings at all.  I looked up the definition of romantic/romance and it was funny. A lot of it talked about books, movies where characters fall in love. Even the verb definition said, "to invent or relate romances; indulge in fanciful or extravagant stories or daydreams." The definitions all seemed to be circular... romantic referenced romance which referenced romantically which then referenced romance.  If the dictionary is a bit confused about romance, it's no wonder we are with all the characters that surround us, both real and c

As we head into a new year, there can be some scary things looming ahead. Sometimes there are unknowns as we walk by faith not knowing what's ahead. God gives us clues in the Bible for how we should not be afraid. Joan of Arc and Padre Pio help out too!

Don't blow all your goals in the month of December waiting for January to arrive. Anchor yourself to what's important now!

Fall is my favorite but partly because I say no to a lot of the activities going on!

The daily grind of motherhood is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and I don't think we talk about it enough.

We've lost the art of changing our minds and doing it gracefully. Let's talk about how we can educate ourselves and stick to our opinions, even if they change. 

I was inspired recently by a quote. "Find a hero, marry him, and then cheer him on every day." How many of us are doing that for our husbands?

When you're leaving a season of survival, how to do you get your life back on track?  

An episode dedicated to how we manage screens in a household with kids ages 8, 6, 4, 2, 1, and almost born!

We know we're drowning in screen time but we can't seem to pull away. Here are 5 ways screens are ruining us and why we should fight against them!

Spiders, snakes, and ticks - oh my! Let's talk about things that frighten us including drowning, whether or not sunscreen causes cancer, and more!

There are some crosses God has given us and we can't get rid of them, we can only learn how to carry them. In this episode we talk about big life transitions, being pregnant, not having AC, when your skin hates the sun and more!

Let's talk about kids who say, "I'm bored," sibling fights, messes, and all the noise, noise noise!