Our summer ended the third week of August. The three youngest kids started school at St. John’s Prep. Justine’s senior year. Miranda’s first year of middle school, new school and all. And Luke, my tenth grader, just goes with the flow. My eldest, Emma, is doing her student teaching at All Saints Academy in St. […]

Faith Community Nurses of the Diocese of St. Cloud encourage everyone to “Take 5 On World Suicide Prevention Day 2019.” Take 5 to Save Lives is a public awareness campaign run by the National Council for Suicide Prevention in support of World Suicide Prevention Day. The goal of the campaign is to encourage everyone to […]

I have seven grandchildren going back to school —two to college, four in high school and one in grade school. I told each of them Grandpa and I would pray for them every day. As the prayer below says, each child is a “precious gift” and each person who teaches our children and touches their […]

As the mother of three sons, I have known all along. I have known that someday they may be blessed to fall in love and find another woman who would love them deeply. And I am so very happy for the life partners and love that they have found. But a part of me grieves. […]

“The Lord is on my side; I will not fear.” – Psalm 118:6 That’s right, I will not fear because wherever I go, God is with me. Before I realized that God is with me, I was confused. I felt that he was punishing me for something I did. It all started one morning. On […]

As we wrapped up our family vacation, we had one more stop to make on our trek home. We began our trip with some time at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and chose to end it with another encounter with the Blessed Mother. Throughout the last few years we have heard about the […]

Last fall as I scrambled to find a destination for our family to take a vacation this summer, I was running out of options. Finding an Airbnb home that was available for our large family in an area of interest, fit our budget and was within the rather limited timeframe of our summer that would […]

My apologies for the silence the last couple of months! Life has been so full of fun adventures so I figured I would give a quick update as to a couple of the recent highlights!   Last year after our Steubenville and Peru mission trip I was feeling this burning in my heart to look […]

What do we have to lose? That was my thought as Christy Louwagie (DRE/Youth Minister at Eden Valley/Watkins) and I hammered out the details for our combined youth lake nights. In my mind, we already both were adding things left and right to our schedule to provide fun and faith-filled opportunities for our youth, so […]

I have very little experience with art, especially drawing, and I didn’t think it was for me. As a 4H member, however, I won State Fair trips in 2017 and 2018 in the Crafts category with artwork that I had submitted. The second year the judge gave me a red ribbon and said I needed […]