This week for the final challenge, give up everything to God in confession.
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Proud Louisiana native. Reluctant DMV resident. Imperfect Catholic (why it's called "practicing"). Trophy wife to Nick. Model mom to Evelyn and Thomas. Fabulous domestic goddess. Fluent in sarcasm. Lives to laugh.
Preparing Your Home for Holy Week
A couple of decorating ideas to turn your home into the domestic church.
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#giveitupNFP Week 6 Challenge
This Week Give up… limiting your expression of intimacy during periods of abstinence ************************ This is probably the most difficult challenge for me to write because this has been the most difficult challenge for me to live. Sex is a gift and a seal, an act freely given that affirms and renews the covenant of…
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Home is Where We are Healed
It was only our second weekend looking at houses. We were going quite a bit further geographically than we were wanting to live, but we had found homes in our price range that were nicer and larger, so we felt it was worth a look. We had resigned ourselves to the reality that in order…
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#giveitupNFP Week 5 Challenge
This week, Give up… not communicating your wants, hurts, fears and joys with your spouse
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To My Engaged-Self
Just a few words I’d go back and tell my engaged-self now that I’ve got four years of marriage under my belt. Don’t worry, I didn’t give me any spoilers 😉
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#giveitupNFP Week 4 Challenge
This week, give up your fears of giving God full control of your fertility.
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#giveitupNFP Week 3 Challenge
The rhetoric spouted in marriage prep for me and so many others can be summarized as selling the resurrection while hiding the crucifixion. Make no mistake, a healthy, happy marriage and sex life is not achieved without a lot of hard work and struggle.
So this week, give up what you heard in marriage prep about NFP that doesn’t make sense for your marriage
