by Leslie Sholly | Jan 16, 2018 | Babies, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Parenting
Growing up Catholic, if I thought about the word “vocation” at all, it was in the context of a call to the priesthood. We were encouraged to pray for more vocations because of the looming shortage of priests. And this sense of vocation as a specifically...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 18, 2017 | Catholicism, family, Parenting
When I was a little girl, I hated going to Mass. My father wasn’t Catholic, and we all know how hard it is to take little kids to Mass. So for the first six years of my life, I mostly stayed home on Sundays with Daddy. Sometimes we’d drop my mother off...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 20, 2017 | Catholicism, Life Issues, linkups
As I do every month, I’m linking up today with the Siena Sisters Catholic Women’s Blogging Network Hop. You can see from the title of my post what I am supposed to be writing about. And wouldn’t you think I’d have been brimming over with...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 18, 2017 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, linkups
Until very recently, worry and anxiety have not been challenges for me. I have the kind of mind that just doesn’t hold on the those kinds of things. Unlike my husband, who is consumed with worry pretty much all the time, making him miserable, I have always...
by Leslie Sholly | Dec 13, 2016 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, family, linkups, Parenting
When our first child was a baby, 25 years ago, I had very specific ideas about Christmas that went along with my ideas about being a perfect mother. From time to time when I was a child, my mother would suggest we should cut back on Christmas gift giving and...