Quick, effective workouts for time-crunched moms
I’m happy to report that I’ve found an amazing physical therapist who understands runners and running and is helping me to correct some imbalances and joint dysfunction that have likely been leading to...
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i is for Insecure and Gratuitous Kid Shots Along with a Shot of Smoothie
I thought about writing a serious post called something like “i is for Insecurity” that discussed how social media can lead many of us (ahem, yours truly) to doubt ourselves and/or to compare ourselves...
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Chasing Rabbits
A very wise friend of mine recently encouraged me to not be down about super-speedy-runner-girl who effortlessly ran 6ish minute miles in her first 5K (and is, as my husband reminded me half a decade...
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To my “Rae” of sunshine…
Dear Rachel, My sweet, 6-year-old girl, happy, happy birthday! Last week you were blessed to spend a week in heaven – otherwise known as horse camp. When I picked you up one of the days, your...
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Bits & Pieces
I have nothing more to offer you than a hodgepodge post. This past weekend my mom and my two oldest girls took off for Peoria, Illinois for one of my speaking engagements. It was a fun and faith-filled...
View Article30 Days to a Healthier You!
It’s July 1st, and there’s no better time than now to take charge of your health. Lord knows you try—a fridge full of lean meats and Greek yogurt, and those regular walks count toward something. But...
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About that cliff hanger
Okay. So I never should have pulled the old cliff hanger trick in my last post. Honestly, I meant to follow up on that post long before now, but two trips in less than three weeks as well as a broken...
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I was recently invited to partake in a discussion about body image with HuffPost Live. Unfortunately, I lost my Internet connection not once but twice, and I may have disturbed at least one slumbering...
View ArticleScale Sickness
As my regular readers know, I’ve gotten back into running after a long hiatus. It’s been about year now since I’ve been running regularly again, and it feels great. I feel strong, and I see a marked...
View ArticleThis is a test. This is only a test.
Yesterday I attempted to update some plugins for my blog. If you don’t know what plugins are, what it means for a feed to be invalid, or what htaccess is, you’re lucky. Well, it seems a bad plugin...
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Good eats: What I’ve been feeding the fam lately
Whew. Life has been busy. How does any mom find time to blog? I don’t know how I used to do it so regularly. I really don’t. This has been one crazy summer. Summer break? Ha. More like the summer of...
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A valediction forbidding mourning
I fell in love with John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” when I was 15. Obviously, I was a super cool teenager. I’d read the poem over and over and at first, the melancholy would wash...
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We survived!
I’ve started and stopped writing this post multiple times. There’s just not much time around here for blogging these days. I still want to give a summer recap. Wait until you hear about what I used...
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Be Jesus’ Skin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta said, “I am God’s pencil, a tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes.” We are all God’s pencils no matter how He chooses to use our gifts and our lives to carry...
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Holy Batman!
Ah, the dog days of summer are nearly behind us. And I couldn’t be happier. Summer break? It was more like summer hell. Or at least summer purgatory. The living most definitely wasn’t easy. But easy...
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Double the fun
Dear Thomas, Happy (belated) 2nd birthday to my amazing, little boy! I can’t believe it’s been two years since Daddy first announced, “It’s a boy!” And, I still convinced I was having another girl and...
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Thank God for Momnesia
The other day I had fall fever. Since I only have two little ones at home now I decided to go out to lunch and then run a few errands, including stopping by the local bookstore. (My first mistake was...
View ArticleWhy I might have chosen the child-free life
During a recent radio interview with EWTN’s Sonrise Morning Show, we discussed how body image plays a role in keeping women from embracing pregnancy and becoming mothers. Our culture definitely...
View ArticleHello. My name is Kate, and I am insecure. And probably so are you. Now what...
Not too long ago I was reading The Phantom Tollbooth aloud to my two oldest children. Milo, the book’s hero of sorts, stumbles upon “the long-nosed, green-eyed, curly-haired, wide-mouthed,...
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