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My Christmas Birthday Baby
Posted on December 25, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald A few years ago, I wrote about expecting my second baby around Christmas and how it helped me reflect on Mary’s experience in Advent. In some ways, that Advent nine years ago seems like just yesterday and in others, a lifetime ago.
When You Have Nothing to Write About
Posted on October 19, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald I am going to be really honest here. Sometimes, there is nothing to write about. Sometimes life is hard, really hard – exhausting. Sometimes family life, work life and even faith life are all overwhelming, and it’s hard to find words. Sometimes, in the midst of your mind being so full you […]
I Threw Away the Diaper Pail
Posted on September 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald For over 10 years it has been a fixture in the house – the diaper pail. The often dreaded but much appreciated vessel had been in use for a decade. This week, it rode off into the sunset (almost quite literally) on the back of a garbage truck. In the most recent […]
Teaching Humility
Posted on July 29, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald This week, the world is watching the one-year delayed Olympic games. This past weekend, I watched my son and his incredible teammates accomplish a dream on the baseball diamond. Through these competitions, it would be easy to get caught up in the glory, but what has stood out to me the most […]
White Baseball Pants
Posted on June 22, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald It is summertime, and in my house that is synonymous with playground baseball and softball. Three of my five children are currently playing (sometimes at the same time) at our neighborhood playground, and I love it.
“Faster Mommy”
Posted on May 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald Last Christmas, Santa brought my children a climbing rope swing for the tree in our backyard. My two older boys took quickly to the challenge with my middle boy making it up the rope first. This lit quite a fire under #1, who very soon after figured out how to get himself […]
Let us Break Bread Together
Posted on April 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald Have you noticed that since the world started its assault on bread (and pasta), it seems like a sadder, angrier place? Think about it, since the war on grain began, mortal enemies have been made of the “opposite” side of one’s ideology, and civil dialogue has become a lost art.
I Stole a Lemon
Posted on March 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald I have a confession to make: in March of 2009, I stole a lemon off of a St. Joseph’s altar. There was a beautiful bowl of large, fresh yellow lemons just sitting there at the corner of the table, and I took one. Why, might you ask, would I steal something from […]
Thanksgiving is My Favorite Holiday
Posted on November 26, 2020 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald As I write this blog, Halloween decor is coming down and, in many places, particularly commercial centers, Christmas decorations are already going up! Everyone seems to be in such a hurry for 2020 to be over that we are trying to skip to the end of the year (and I can’t say […]
Prayer and Action Take on a New Meaning
Posted on November 3, 2020 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald I had my first of five children in 2011, then I had five babies in seven years. For nearly a decade, I was blessed to be either pregnant or caring for a newborn with all that comes with that. For nearly a decade, I used that as an excuse to not be […]
I Miss Their Smiles
Posted on October 6, 2020 Leave a Comment
By Sarah McDonald Many things have changed over the past few months, but perhaps the most visible change is that of people wearing masks in public. My husband recounted a story to me of taking our 2-year-old “Happy Face” to the pediatrician’s office only to have her try to pull his mask off the entire […]
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