Vocation

K4J (Kids for Jesus), the virtue building program, runs through our veins in the Weber home— ever since our oldest was three.  Last year, the Catholic school our kids attend were the first in our [...]

Our 6th grade son served mass last Sunday.  And this Saturday, he has the honor of substituting for another boy to serve the Easter Vigil mass.  Both masses sandwich the tender Holy Thursday [...]

Other than corporate prayer and song, the only silence break in a weekend silent Ignatian Spiritual Retreat is when speaking to the priest during spiritual direction.  After counseling thousands [...]

My pet name “Interruption PTSD” explains the  condition of your mind replaying the negative past sensation of being constantly interrupted, making you think it continues to go on when negative [...]

The birth of our first child awed me with the beauty of new life.  But, an unimaginable degree of sleep deprivation accompanied the bliss.  Yet the uncomfortable experience of never being able to [...]

Our youngest Benjamin’s entry into kindergarten catapulted me from being a mom with a constant companion and thrice a week, half-day preschool drop off-pick up routine (making it difficult to get [...]

On the drive home from school I had a disjointed conversation with my oldest as part of the painful adjustment for both of us to middle school.  It was a dialogue about an assignment that he got [...]

It can be a bit discouraging as a devout Catholic to hear in the press how only 13% of church-going Catholic women agree and abide to the teachings of the Catholic Church on birth control and [...]

Having had so many family members leave the Church and seeing firsthand the consequences of doing my will and not God’s will motivate me to blaze a different trail for my kids. And K4J (Kid 4 [...]

We’re lucky our oldest, Ian, made it out of my womb alive. Born two months early, breech, and strangled by his umbilical cord, Ian is currently with us by the grace of God and the skill of our [...]