Eyes Wide Open
Every experienced adoptive parent I have talked with has emphasized that happily-ever-after with an adopted child takes a lot of hard work …

Sara Fox Peterson is a wife, homeschooling mama and occasional writer. She holds a BS in biology and an MS in physiology and is a certified teacher of the Billings Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning. Sara and her family live in Maryland and are in the process of adopting a child with special needs from an Eastern European orphanage. She blogs at http://www.foxberryfarmalmanac.blogspot.com
Every experienced adoptive parent I have talked with has emphasized that happily-ever-after with an adopted child takes a lot of hard work …
The international adoption process is not easy to explain and does vary significantly depending on the child’s birth country and whether or …
Have you ever read a book that changed your life? I mean totally, completely, unexpectedly, changed. Your. Life. Late last year I …
Have you been bumping into Reece’s Rainbow every time you turn around in the Catholic blogosphere lately? Adoption blogs, even special needs …
So NFP is great, right? We promoters and teachers of NFP use a lot of breath and ink letting everyone who comes …
In the very first column I wrote for CatholicMom.com (Natural Family Planning – Why Not?) I mentioned that the issue of freedom …
Learning the truth about the sex, marriage and family planning can be one of the most difficult and painful aspects of converting …
Imagine two hypothetical couples, each with the same number of children, the same financial and material resources, the same psychological stresses and …
People who speak publicly about the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage will tell you that one of the question they hear …
The slide presentation I use as an introduction to NFP when I am teaching a group of couples includes a wonderful slide …
Within weeks of giving birth to my second child the questions started: “Will you have another?” “When?” “How many are you planning …