Eight days ago, I met with my spiritual director, our first meeting in months. We checked in and talked about Lent. He asked what was going on in my life, if there was anything I was concerned about. There were a few things on my mind we discussed. In a couple of these situations, I […]

It’s that time of year again. Can you believe how close we are to the holidays? Has this year been as crazy busy for you as it has been for me? It feels like Christmas is going to be here before we know it, and Advent will come and go in the blink of an […]

My friends, the time has come.   After months of deliberation, prayer, and reckoning with the voice that I trust to be my conscience, it’s time for my posts here as YoungMarriedMom to come to an end.   I started this blog with hopes of doing a couple of things—writing regularly; making sense of pregnancy […]