+J.M.J.+ I mentioned in my post yesterday with resources for St. Valentine's Day our natural dye for our cookies. After all, artificial red dye is usually derived from petroleum, can cause hyperactivity in kids, and is incredibly toxic as you can read about here. It's really easy to naturally get around this using... beets. And no, [...]
+J.M.J.+ The Feast of St. Valentine is this week so I am doing a quick round up of resources for you! I want to quickly throw out a reminder that fun liturgical living type activities should ultimately be making us holier by increasing our devotion. If they're actually making us miserable or feeling dread with [...]
Valentines Day can be seen as a silly commercialized holiday to sell flowers and candy to an incredibly romantic day celebrating love. And if you're a romantic at heart and single on Valentines Day... it can be really painful. I know this from experience because I am probably the most sentimental, romantic, emotional person you'd [...]
+J.M.J.+ Now that the dust is settling a bit, I just wanted to share more about why we chose to move to Nebraska of all places. I've shared bits and pieces of this on social media, but here is the story. Ethan had lived in Cleveland for 13 years after he graduated from college. He [...]
+J.M.J.+ Let's talk makeup! If you want to see videos of me talking about all of this, you can head on over to my Instagram later this morning - it'll be a saved story on my front page! Our skin is our largest organ, and what we put on our bodies, we are really putting [...]
+J.M.J.+ I personally know at least 15 couples who met their spouse online. Ethan and I's marriage, our children, our home... it all began with an email through Catholic Match. (You can read our whole story here) Because I've been so open about us meeting online, I have been messaged lots of questions or prayer [...]
+J.M.J.+ Advent is going to be here in no time, and this year I'm proud to say I'm actually on top of preparations for once. And remember, there's still time for you to put together things if you want to do any of these traditions to help prepare your family's hearts for Jesus's birth! Also, [...]
+J.M.J.+ Zelie is almost 15 months, and as of last week, she is night weaned! I put the call out on Instagram to see if anyone wanted to know anything specific about our process so I'll explain how we night-wean as I answer your great questions. How Did You Know It Was Time? We do [...]
+J.M.J.+ I'm back from my cloth diapering FAQ post earlier this week to answer all of the questions asked specifically about our diaper stash itself... you know: what brand I use, how many I have, how I store them, what accessories we use, and that big decision: snaps or velcro closures! Let's jump in! Disclosure: [...]
+J.M.J.+ I put the call out on social media for any cloth diapering questions and quite a few rolled in. I'm going to jump right in and answer them, consolidating any really similar queries. A few of you wanted to know more about our diapers themselves and which accessories I recommend. I'm going write about [...]
