Dear Brennan, Today you are two! Every day with you proves to be a new adventure and we are so thrilled to be on it with you. To recap: you had two surgeries this year–we were able to take down 2/3 of your holes! We are slowing closing in on your tenth and final surgery… Continue reading On Brennan’s 2nd Birthday

I grew up assuming that my Catholic upbringing automatically made me pro-life (similar to the false assumption that you’re also Catholic if you never attend Mass🤔). Moreso, I assumed that my right-leaning political views confirmed my pro-life mindset. Oh, how wrong I was. As I’ve said—this is not a political blog. I could not— and… Continue reading On being [truly] pro-life

Not going to lie, last week I was completely certain God threw me a sucker punch. I had prayed all the Novena’s, went to Mass and Confession often and tried harder than usual to be “good”.  This goodness, of course, had a great cause—to gather and use my deeds in order to spare my son… Continue reading On Suffering

I was so looking forward to titling this post, #kidneybaby, end of an era–but alas it was not meant to be.  We arrived at the hospital at 5:45 am feeling confident. Brennan was taken back promptly at 7am. The surgeon ran about an hours with of tests to see how the bladder was doing after… Continue reading #kidneybaby part 5

With businesses big and small throwing consumerism in your face, the true meaning of Christmas can get lost in the cheap smoke show of secular culture. It can oftentimes feel like you can never do enough! Liam and I made a decision before Brennan was born to conscientiously keep that out of our home during… Continue reading On Christmas Gifts

I briefly mentioned in a previous post of my “reversion” to Catholicism, after some time attending other churches. Since I tend to talk a lot of Catholicism I wanted to reminisce a little on my time away from the Catholic faith. I hadn’t given it much thought until sharing practices of faith with my friends… Continue reading On being a temporary Baptist

Righteous anger—is there such a thing? I find myself angry at many things in life—bad drivers, bad sushi, and bad Catholics—to name only a few. It’s easy to defend and rationalize the actions that follow the feeling but you can never justify sin when you act in anger (Ephesians 4:26). As ever-growing Christians, controlled anger… Continue reading On Anger