by Leslie Sholly | Jul 10, 2017 | Babies, Deep Thoughts, family, Parenting
I’m sitting here in my office working on bills as if it were any other Saturday even though a seismic shift occurred in my world less than 24 hours ago. Because life does, in fact, go on. Twenty-two-and-a-half years ago, give or take, we welcomed our third...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 5, 2015 | Babies, family, rants
This summer I read an article in the online version of Elle Magazine, which read in part: Sometimes, I can see us living in a smaller, older home somewhere, selling this one, and adjusting to accommodate life with a third child in a home that is definitely anything...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 13, 2014 | Abortion, Babies, Deep Thoughts, Life Issues, rants, Uncategorized
I haven’t tackled a topic like this in a while.  But, y’all, I can’t write about pretty graveyards and fall hikes all the time. Today I read this story about an Australian woman who traveled to the United States to undergo in vitro fertilization and...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 20, 2014 | Answer Me This, Babies, books, linkups, Parenting, pregnancy, teenagers
I’m a day late, but hopefully not a dollar short, to Five Favorites, hosted by Mama Knows, Honeychild. Let’s talk books today. Â I don’t know how I would go about making a list of my five favorite books ever, so instead I will call this Five Favorite...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 26, 2014 | Babies, Catholicism, Contraception, Deep Thoughts, family, health, Life Issues, Parenting, pregnancy
I’m late to the party, but thought I should do my bit to promote NFP Awareness Week. If you aren’t Catholic (and in a sad commentary on . . . lots of things, maybe even if you are) you may have no idea what NFP even is. Â The doctor I went to see right...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 6, 2014 | Babies, books, Parenting, review
I am so happy that Tina Traster offered me the chance to read and review this important story of her daughter’s adoption from Russia (Siberia, to be precise) and the family’s struggle with Reactive Attachment Disorder. Let me start by explaining why this...