It was February; my daughter was 6 months old sleeping in her crib while I had locked myself in the bathroom. I was sitting on the cold tile floor, my body shaking inconsolably while tears flowed from my exhausted eyes and a pit grew bigger and bigger in my stomach. Fear and questions ran through [...]
ALIVE Retreat Testimony
Being a wife, mother, full time employee and attending RCIA can make it hard for me to find much time for anything, let alone quiet time for myself. To fix this, I had told myself I would pray a decade of the Rosary everyday for the 54 day Fatima Novena. To my disappointment, things just [...]
A Weekend Without My Bible
This past weekend, I left my car at work an hour away. It's a long story why but it basically involves not wanting to sit in rush hour traffic without a carpool buddy. This wasn't any kind of inconvenience because my husband and I are blessed to have two cars but there was one huge [...]
The True Meaning of Mother’s Day
Every year comes Mother's Day, and with it, I'm sure, a lot of mixed feelings. Some people don't have the best relationship with their mothers or may not even know who their mother is at all. Others have wonderful, unbreakable relationships with their moms; talking everyday and sharing all the inner workings of their lives [...]
How to Have the Perfect Wedding on a Budget
Let's talk weddings! Just like everything else in today's society, weddings are highly advertised to be the most extravagant day of your life. With social media and especially Pinterest, the pressure from peers to have the perfect wedding can seem daunting. Who will have the best dress, the most expensive venue, the all out extras [...]
Failure is all Around me
There are so many issues that I have with society today, and I never noticed until I gave birth, started battling Post Partum Depression, and quickly became what the media and general public would deem "unattractive". My whole life up until pregnancy, I was a thin attractive blonde. My life wasn't great, but it was [...]
What it Means to be a Mother
"I am proud of many things in life, but nothing beats being a mother." Almost one year ago, my life changed forever. I can remember not quite feeling like myself and beginning to wonder what was going on with myself and my body. It can be a strange and scary time when you start to [...]
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