Scanned and blogged, because I don’t want to lose it. You might see more of these …

We are collecting submissions of two different kinds for the Family Page in Faith & Family magazine.

1. Family Photos Send us a photo of your whole family and you might just find your lovely selves published in Faith & Family. If we use your photo, we will ask for your names, as well as a few other details about your family to share with readers.

2. Kids’ Art Work We’d love to show off your kids’ drawings. Have them create a masterpiece featuring a theme from the liturgical year. For this fall issue, please send us drawings of autumn feast days or saints whose feast days we celebrate in fall (the archangels, St. Therese, St. Francis, etc.)

For both kinds of submissions, please scan your image and email it to me (editorATfaithandfamilyliveDOTcom). I am looking forward to your fabulous photos and beautiful drawings!

While we’re still cruising through these days of summer, I wanted to point out the new look here at DanielleBean.com.

You like? I do!

Many thanks to Ashley at A Little Leaf Design for her excellent work.

Hey guys! Today at 6:30 pm EDT I will be a guest on Relevant Radio’s A Closer Look with Sheila Liaugminas.

We’ll be talking about our culture’s discrimination against children and large families. You can listen online and call in — I’d love to hear from you!

We’ve been busy-busy-busy with lots of lovely summer things around here, and I hope you have too.

You might notice this place is undergoing a bit of a face lift. Changes are ongoing, so a few things might not work properly or look quite right for a little while yet. Thank you for your patience!

Are you on there?

I’m figuring it out and rather liking what I see.

If you are there, let’s get circling … Join me! Or add your name to the Faith & Family Google+ list I’m creating.

See you there!

Happy weekend!

My latest column at Crisis is up this weekend:

Five Ways I Don’t Love Natural Family Planning

You should read the comments! Most of them are great — very thoughtful and charitable. In the “not quite so thoughtful and charitable” category, though, my favorite so far is from the lady who accused me of, in some previous article, admonishing readers to have more kids because I know they can handle it. Because that is just so me, you know?

Also, this weekend, I had the pleasure of joining the crew at SQPN’s Catholic Weekend for a show in which we talked about family bonding, sweet tea, kayaking trips, social media, and P90X. Now that’s a show! It was a lot of fun to take part and I am honored that they asked me. Go take a listen for yourself!

Guess what? Next week we’ll be recording our 100th episode of the Faith & Family podcast!

We would love for YOU to be a part of this special milestone episode. Will you please call our listener feedback line and leave us a brief voice message?

1-413-FAITH-55 or 1-413-324-8455

Call any time — this line is voice mail only. Tell us what you like about the Faith & Family podcast, what topics you might like us to cover in future episodes, or an episode that was particularly helpful or meaningful for you.

I hope we’ll collect enough feedback to make a very special episode of the Faith & Family podcast next week. Don’t be shy — give us a call today!