Good news! Faith & Family magazine and Faith & Family Live are in transition to a new home — one that will provide us with the support and financial stability we need to continue our ministry to Catholic families.

I am not going anywhere and there will be no lapse of service to current magazine subscribers, but for a brief period some of you might experience difficulty purchasing our renewing subscriptions to the magazine.

We are working hard to get all the details hammered out for a smooth transition and I will announce more details as soon as I am able. I am looking forward to a bright future for Faith & Family. Please pray for us as we make these changes!

Yesterday, Eamon had a song in mind that he wanted to buy on iTunes so he asked me to check the lyrics for him (I always preview lyrics before allowing kids to purchase music).

He didn’t know the artist and had only heard part of the song as bumper music on a radio talk show, but it’s been my experience that it usually only takes a little bit of Googling to find the lyrics to any song, even if we only know part of it.

This time, however, when I searched for the words he remembered, “Spinnin n’ Reelin in Love,” plus “lyrics” I came up with nothing.

I Googled. I iTuned. And finally YouTubed. There it was.

Creed Bratton, of course. From The Office. And yes, the lyrics do seem to be just fine.

You can read my latest column at Inside Catholic today.

My husband and I were recently inspired to pack ourselves,our eight kids, and 13,000 Capri Sun juice boxes into our twelve-passenger van and drive more than 1,500 miles to spend Christmas in south Florida.

It was epic — if by epic you mean a wildly memorable trip that was “so perfectly worth doing” but also “I am so glad it’s over with” all at once. For good or bad, nothing says “togetherness” quite like a long family road trip.

Read the whole thing …

5 year old Raphael: When I grow up, I want to be … a prankster.