by Kendra | Aug 7, 2015 | Babies, Baptism, From the Trenches
With baby Mary Jane closing in on the two week anniversary of that time she was accidentally born in our bathtub, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share some photos of her, and a few things I’ve learned NOT to do while parenting my newborns. 1....
by Kendra | Aug 4, 2015 | Babies, Baptism, Catholic Living, Sacraments
Mary Jane was baptized last Sunday, and since a few of you asked in the comments of Facebook and Instagram photos, I’ll use this photo dump to answer your godparent/godchildren related questions. How Do We Choose Godparents for Our Children? We choose practicing...
by Kendra | Jul 25, 2015 | Babies
Just going to pop in quickly here to introduce you to the newest member of the family . . . Mary Jane Tierney. She was born at 3:08am this morning, July 25th, her due date, the Feast of St. James. 8lbs 3oz, 21 inches long, not much hair to speak of. Looks exactly like...
by Kendra | Jul 14, 2015 | Babies, Giveaway
It’s getting towards crunch time on baby number eight here. Just two-ish weeks to go. This is always an odd time for me, because I tend to walk around at 3 or 4 cm for these last few weeks. I’m sure it makes things go more easily when the time comes, but...
by Kendra | Jul 9, 2015 | Babies, Mailbag, Parenting With Authority
Last time, I answered a different mailbag question about this same topic: babies in a house full of their sibling’s toys. That post was about babyproofing (or, more specifically, about NOT babyproofing). Today, I’m going to approach that same topic from a...
by Kendra | Jul 7, 2015 | Babies, Mailbag, Parenting With Authority
I’ve received a couple of related mailbag questions over the past couple of weeks about how we handle the issue of babies in a house full of their siblings’ toys. Today I’ll discuss the idea of babyproofing, specifically how I DON’T do it, and...
by Kendra | Mar 27, 2015 | Babies, Can of Worms, Mailbag
Sometimes when I get a mailbag question, I can’t believe I really haven’t ever written on the subject before. This was one of those. I’ve written about breastfeeding (those posts always spark quite a discussion) and getting babies to sleep...
by Kendra | Jan 16, 2015 | Babies, Mailbag, Parenting, Parenting With Authority
What do you do when you want to blog, but you ALSO really, really want to take a bath and hit the sack? Why, fish something out of the mailbag of course. It’s already written and at least one person in the universe is interested in the answer. Today’s...
