While You Were Folding

This week, we’re discussing all things Parenting and continuing our series on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life.  (The series started back in Episode 50, so start there if you’re just joining us!) Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode: Sharing about our decision to start homeschooling next year: While You Were Folding Episode 055: If I […]

Intro: Quick update on building our house Getting back into family meetings (here’s our family meeting agenda) Using the word “romance” for inspiration this Lent Today’s Topic: If I Ran the Zoo: Our Decision to Homeschool Why (and it’s not because we stopped liking our great Catholic school) After-school restraint collapse Why we’re excited My […]

Philip came down to the recording studio to talk all about marriage (the 3rd “P” from a Mother’s Rule of Life — Partner). Links/Resources Mentioned This Week: Nick Barber’s album, Stations, on Apple Music Nick Barber’s website Our Family Meeting Agenda The 5 Love Languages Questions for you: Have you had any lightbulb moments revolving […]

This week: Recapping our trip to Jamaica Cultural observations about emotional expression/repression and mental health Helping friends with invisible crosses (a conversation about my diagnosis with Sjögren’s Syndrome and a friend asking how she can help) Today’s Topic:  3 favorite things Snack: Salt and Pepper Pistachios and Lindt dark chocolate bars (Intense Orange and Roasted […]

This week, I’m continuing the conversation based on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life: How to bring order to your home and peace to your soul.  I’m talking about the 2nd “P”: Person–the importance of caring for yourself (mind, body, and soul).   Links/resources mentioned this episode: Unbound Ministry Our family schedule (Don’t compare!  […]

Today’s Topic:  Continuing the conversation based on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life: How to bring order to your home and peace to your soul.  Today, we’re talking about the First “P” of a Mother’s Rule of Life: Prayer. I hope it’s an encouragement to take the time to make your personal prayer life […]

Episode 50!!!  Woo-hoo! Resources and recommendations from listeners after last week’s episode: 049 January Potpourri: Jordan Page’s Kitchen tour + Kitchen remodel Anna over at In Honor of Design The Home Edit: A Guide to Realizing and Organizing Your House Goals “Religion and Spirituality” Artwork from Art.com The Inspired Room by Melissa Michaels Today’s Topic: Organizing […]

Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode: After-School Restraint Collapse Unruffled (Janet Lansbury’s parenting podcast) Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life Favorite quote: “Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points, the life of the world beautiful?  Everything has its wonders–even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state […]

I’m so happy to be back!  I’ll be releasing weekly episodes of While You Were Folding in 2020 every Wednesday. After getting all caught up since my last podcast release, I shared about the why behind my Word of the Year: Home! Find you word of the year (Jen Fulwiler’s Word of the Year Generator) […]

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with the women from Seward MOPS about Wholehearted Parenting.  I thought I’d share the talk as a podcast episode.  I hope you’ll find it helpful! Before you listen, download and print off my handout from the talk.  It has a lot of questions and tables that I […]

This week, I’m finally releasing a great conversation with Kathryn Whitaker!  I asked Kathryn come on the show to talk about her new book, Live Big, Love Bigger: Getting Real with BBQ, Sweet Tea, and a Whole Lotta Jesus.  We had a great conversation about how how to live a “hell yes” kinda life centered […]

As you heard in Episode 045: Back to School Blues, we’re having a rough start to the school year at our house!  We’re coming off a weekend full of illness, and I’m not going to be able to record a new episode this week. Going forward, I’ll release new episodes every other Wednesday beginning next […]

This week, I talked about our house’s back to school blues.  As much as we love our parish school and teachers, we are struggling (as we always do) with the adjustment.  I shared what the struggle is looking like and what Philip and I are doing on the parenting side to make things a little […]

This week, I talked about letter writing–why I love it, the book that is inspiring me lately, and my new challenge: writing one letter a week until Christmas.  Wanna join me? Other links/resources mentioned this episode: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor Selected and Edited by Sally Fitzgerald While You Were Folding Episode 043: […]

This week, I talked about parenting from fear–how it looks, why we do it, and how I handle it. Other links/resources mentioned this episode: Sonja Corbitt’s book, Fearless: A Catholic Woman’s Guide to Spiritual Warfare.  The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure  Join […]

This week, I talked about the joys of SUMMER CAMP–as a camper, counselor, and a mother! Before that, I circled back to last week’s episode, 041: Puberty Q&A With Jane.  The Diocese of Lincoln has a fantastic website with a few videos and a bibliography with recommended resources for parents on discussing the gift our […]

***LITTLE EARS WARNING.***  This week, my 9-year-old daughter, Jane, came on the podcast to talk through a lot of questions about puberty.  Please consider listening to this show without little ears around in case they’re not ready to hear this content. Links Mentioned this week: How Full is Your Bucket? By Tom Rath Talking Points […]

Congratulations to dianachristine3 and coffeebeanstina on winning copies of Colleen Carroll Campbell’s book, The Heart of Perfection!  I’ll be in touch! This week, I: shared listener feedback on what they’re doing to fill their own buckets (great ideas!).  What are YOU doing to fill your bucket lately?  Instead of mindlessly scrolling social media, what would feel […]

This week, I had the bucket list honor of chatting with Colleen Carroll Campbell!  We talked about her new book, The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught me to Trade my Dream of Perfect for God’s. I loved the book so much that I’m giving away TWO copies to two lucky listeners!  To enter […]

This week, I thought I’d share and respond to some of the feedback I received from Episode 037: All Things NFP With Bekah Knobeloch. A few of the links/resources mentioned this episode: Feminine Genius Ministries Recent reads: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of […]