http://www.acatholicmom.com A Woman After God's Own Heart Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:15:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A friend forwarded me this link and I had to share it! A study in England showed that the symptothermal method of Natural Family Planning (meaning a method where a woman watches for fertility in both temperatire and cervical mucus) is "highly effective". The effectiveness is comparable to that of ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/08/23/nfp-is-highly-effective/ My oldest child, Michael, will be attending a full-time preschool-4 this fall at a Catholic school that continues through eighth grade. I'm excited, nervous, and sad all at the same time. In fact, I think I have more emotion about it than he does! I have really been a roller-coaster of ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/08/19/school-beginnings/ Ok, I know I've been quiet for a while now.  I could make excuses but I won't.  I feel really bad about it actually because I know so many of you really enjoy relating to my posts and I really want you to feel like there's someone out there who ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/08/12/where-have-i-been/ God is so good!! Tonight Michael and I went on a long bike ride and when we got back, Michael needed to go number two really badly. He wasn't real excited about sitting on the toilet, but I persuaded him by saying, "We can add a star to ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/18/success/ Good morning everyone. I'm just relaxing this Sunday morning and cooking breakfast. I'm really tired though. I stayed up way too late scrapbooking. Other news... well, I'm reading Christopher West's Good News about Sex & Marriage which has been an awesome read so far. It ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/15/lazy-sunday-morning/ I read a really biased article in the newspaper yesterday about Our Holy Father's words in his recently released writings, Motu Proprio and the Letter on the 1962 Mass. I encourage you to read the original article in the context of church teaching and not just take the secular ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/12/be-informed-links-to-motu-proprio/ As you probably know, my husband and I use NFP (Natural Family Planning) to facilitate the planning of our family in accordance with the teachings of the Church. Although it may seem strange to those who do not practice NFP, we find that not only is it the morally ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/07/practicing-nfp-while-breastfeeding-and-my-initial-thoughts-of-cyclendarcom/ We're going to a Round Rock Express babeball game tonight as a family.  Hopefully it won't rain on us.  We try to make time for these types of fun family outings at least a couple times a month.  It really renews our family and brings us closer together to time ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/06/family-outings/ People have been telling me lately that my husband and I did a good job preparing our oldest child, Michael, whose 4 years old, for the birth of Anna, our 7 month old baby girl. As much as I don't want to take credit for the successful transition, I ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/03/how-to-help-your-older-child-welcome-a-new-sibling/ Lately, I've been listening more to Relevant Radio, a national Catholic radio broadcast that is station 970 AM in Austin. I find myself preferring it lately over music which is really the first time in my life I can say I prefer talk radio over music. I really ... http://www.acatholicmom.com/2007/07/01/relevant-radio/