Evening Prayer Indahl Style

Sometimes I see pictures of families during their evening prayer time and I hide a little bit behind my computer screen.  Kneeling children, hands folded, heads bowed. Evening prayer at our house is…..  more….. well….. free form. Maybe you...

A Different Kind of Mother

The Monday before Siena was born, we toured the NICU at St. Mary’s Children Hospital at the Mayo Clinic.  As a part of that tour, we took a shuttle from one part of campus to another part of campus.   That shuttle stopped at the Ronald McDonald House...

What We’re Reading: Lenten Edition

I think my last edition of What We’re Reading was back in June…. oh how things have changed!  I’m not reading as much as I was back then, but here are some of the titles I have been browsing in the last several weeks. Fiction Pierced by a Sword...

Memory Making

Adding details like names and dates to the memory making gave Tim & I something to keep busy the next day. Memory making is an important piece of the saying goodbye portion of time after a baby dies.  Without many tangible memories of birthday parties,...

Grief Together

After my second miscarriage many years ago, a coworker told me I should really be careful about announcing pregnancy before it was safe because, “it affects them too.”  In the last week, another person told me that I “really needed to consider...

Reflections on The March for Life

Siena had a voice at this year’s march thanks to some teenage girls whose parents read this blog! Everytime I post anything pro-life on Facebook, I lose a couple followers and this year was no different. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I always am. I’m...