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Book offers women of faith a journal for pregnancy

When Clarissa Valbuena Aljentera found out she was pregnant with her son, AJ, she figured out pretty early on that she wanted to journal about her experiences in a way that connected to her faith.

Wheels on the bus

It was a chilly, cloudy damp day when the bus broke down. It was one in a long chain of chilly, cloudy damp days we had in January, but it was Monday of Catholic Schools Week, and for Teresa’s school, that means a field trip. Specifically, a service-oriented field trip.

Double digits

Teresa turned 10 years old this month, making it the first time in almost 22 years we haven’t had a child under 10 at home.

The empty box mystery

Call it the mystery of the empty box. A whodunit that is repeated over and over and over again.

Families must put the phone away and talk to each other, pope says

Pope Francis prayed that people all over the world would end 2019 “in peace, peace in their hearts,” and that families would mark New Year’s by “communicating with one another.”

Keeping Christmas

This Christmas season, we plan to attend a Simbang Gabi Mass for the first time. It’s not so much that we are seeking out the traditional Filipino pre-Christmas novena to the Blessed Mother. It’s more that we have to be picking up Caroline from the train station at the time we would usually be at Mass for the last Sunday before Christmas, and the Saturday vigil Mass at our parish that weekend is part of the novena.

Wonder

Our family was enjoying dinner on Christmas Eve before bundling up for midnight Mass at St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University. Christopher and Sophie were tiny but precocious. Advent had been full of lengthy discussions during which their innately inquisitive selves delved ever more deeply into the practicalities of Santa Claus and his primary, global responsibility.

Hello. Goodbye.

Parenting college students, I read somewhere, means learning to say goodbye again and again and again. But that’s only true if it also means saying hello again and again.

Is it Christmas yet?

It’s already started. I’ve seen Facebook posts of people decorating their Christmas trees. The stores have been stocked with stockings and lights since before Halloween. And last weekend, Teresa asked when we could put our tree up.

A good book

When I was a kid, I could spend an entire day reading.
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