HeyJaredThe Process
Mediocre Catholic wife, mother, and other, processing life out loud.
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Ladies of sorrow (opens the original)
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When I wrote here about my most recent miscarriage and the thoughts and frustrations it provoked about NFP, I received many thoughtful responses in both the comments and my inbox. Some offered solidarity, others shared their experiences with navigating NFP in challenging circumstances, and others still offered theological reflections on the meaning and purpose of suffering in the context of the female body (in fact, most did some combination of these). I was truly touched that people were willin
cake for breakfast vol 2.11 (opens the original)
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Hello! It’s September and everyone is back to school, if you hadn’t heard. Last week was officially back to school, but 3/5 of us got pretty sick and the 3yo had to miss most of his first week of preschool which was a bit anticlimactic after having spent the weeks leading up to it preparing him. But today and yesterday, everyone went to school, and I started to get back to the things that require slightly longer stretches of quietness/calm than is possible with three kids around 24/7 (at least,
Miscarriage, NFP, and abstinence (opens the original)
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It’s been a while since I’ve written anything because things have been, as they say, a lot, and I have a tendency towards oversharing, so when private stuff is going on I find it easier to write nothing than to write and act like there isn’t anything major going on in the background. But I’ve been mainly in bed for a few days, because of one of the Things going on, and when I was scrolling Substack and saw that little “Create” button on the lefthand side of my screen, I thought yes, I do feel li
cake for breakfast vol 2.10 (opens the original)
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It’s the last day of the school year here and last night I couldn’t sleep because my heart was pounding due to the insanely fast passage of time. I understand there is nothing more boring to write about than how fast time goes by, but it is genuinely frightening to me. It feels so recent that I was praying for my kids to have good teachers and friends this year, and now they are literally crying because God answered that prayer so generously that they are devastated that the school year is over.
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