Catholic Home

If there were a contest for laziest Catholic blogger, I’m pretty sure I’d win. It’s been so, so long since my last update, and so, so...

Greetings from the land of dust, fumes, and noise. It's been a while. I know. I'm sorry. It's been a rough few months, though, filled...

They say if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. If, however, you want to make Him do more than laugh, if you want to make...

Living through a major renovation teaches you all sorts of things about yourself. For example, spending day after day, working and...

Greetings from the land of dust, turtlenecks, and thick-bottomed boots. It's been not quite four weeks since I posted last, and what a...

Welcome back!. Today, we're continuing the tour upstairs. Yesterday, for those of you just joining us, we covered the downstairs. I...

I hosted the first party in my Steubenville home on January 2, 2005. I’d only closed on the house a few hours before, but that didn’t...

Well, that break was longer than expected. I promise, I had the best intentions of wrapping up my forthcoming book on food and faith...

Apologies for the month-long posting break. I had the best intentions about coming back from Christmas and immediately wrapping up the...

Today, we're beginning my wrap-up of the Catholic Home series with a little tough love. Because someone out there— maybe you, maybe not...

Everything is all sixes and sevens around here this week, with me preparing for my annual Christmas Tree Decorating Party. This Saturday,...

So…sacramentals. This is the easy one. Yay! Hurrah! Special treat for me! No hate mail today! Or maybe not. I said that last week about...

And we continue… Right out of the gate, I admit it feels hollow writing about decorating and home maintenance as hundreds of families...