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The weather has cooled much earlier this year than we are accustomed to here in Phoenix. Dare I say, it feels like Fall. Usually I can tell we are in the last quarter of the year because of the man...
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Yesterday I turned 38. My children attend a Montessori school and wondered if we’d have a birthday circle for me. In their class, when it is a child’s birthday, they hold a globe in the center of t...
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Two weekends ago I went to a hotel to work without interruption. I worked for 17 hours straight. It felt so good to get some of the ideas I’ve had brewing in my mind drawn and sent for product samp...
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Two weekends ago, I had my first full day class to become a catechist for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. I have been attempting to get into a formation since my first daughter was born and I am...
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How can you show up for yourself?
This weekend I threw a dinner party to celebrate the launch of Living the Seasons. I hadn’t thrown a dinner party since before I got married 5 years ago. Around the table were women who raised me, ...
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On Sunday I went to Mass by myself because Luce needed to go down for a nap and Frances had a fever. I hadn’t been to Mass alone in a really long time so I was relishing in it all. And then my husb...
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Birthday and Saint Francis' Collection
Yesterday was our pastor’s birthday so after Mass we sang happy birthday and they had a huge basket to collect birthday cards. Frances, my three year old daughter, somehow got the message that it w...
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It’s been 9 years this month since my brother helped me establish Be A Heart as an LLC and build a website. I had no foresight whatsoever as to what it could be, who I could be, where God would lea...
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You Are Worthy Just As You Are
Last night I went with my mom to see the Barbie movie. I had zero expectations for it and just anticipated good costume and set design and fun music. I knew there was a big uproar and saw Catholics...
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We had an uneventful week and it was so welcomed. There is this Daniel Tiger movie about moving and we’ve watched it more times than I can count. There is a song that says “it takes time, it takes ...
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