Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

I have recently received a number of questions from listeners around my own personal homeschooling journey with my children. So I wanted to take the time to share my experience and what has worked well for our family. But friends, please remember that God’s perfect design for each of us, our children, and our homes is uniquely crafted for our families. Though I love to share my own wonderful exper...

This week we wrap our Lenten series on the Sorrowful Mysteries, with the Crucifixion of Christ. As I was praying on this mystery, I kept reflecting on the pure love and goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ, as he laid down his life for us on the Cross. I was delighted to sit down and chat with my friend Stephanie Weinert about this gift of self-love as well as the grace in grief that our Lord so desi...

This week I am so delighted to continue our conversation on the sorrowful mysteries with my dear friend, author, speaker, ministry leader, and beautiful momma of four, the lovely Laura Phelps. We continue our journey by discussing the fourth sorrowful mystery, The Carrying of the Cross. Laura recently wrote the beautifully profound book Sweet Cross: A Marian Guide to Suffering, which was powerfull...

As we continue our Lenten Series this week, my heart has been brought to a place of deep pain and sorrow for all that Christ endured in order to restore our broken relationship with God. “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it...

YOUR MOTHERHOOD MATTERS! I was out on a walk thinking through all the things I want to get done and tend to as I nest for the arrival of our new baby, and suddenly I was struck with the stark reality of what I was investing my heart in. Our Lord slowly and tenderly pierced my heart in a powerful reminder that motherhood matters . Whether biological or spiritual, who we are as women in the lives of...

We continue our series on the sorrowful mysteries this week with the Scouring at the Pillar . Before sending Jesus to be scourged, Pilate was faced with the choice of standing up for what was right in his eyes, and even more powerfully through his wife's eyes, or caving into the pressure of the crowds.  When Pilate saw " that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning,”...

Today, we kick off our Lenten Series on the Sorrowful Mysteries. I have been wanting to enter into a deeper reflection and look at the beautiful mysteries of the Rosary for quite some time. I couldn't think of a more fitting time to dive headfirst into exploring the sorrowful mysteries than Lent itself. The agony in the garden gives us a real look into the vulnerable and authentic humanness o...

“The Rosary is scripture on a string, each bead marking a place in the Bible. But it is more than that. It is the rhythmic contemplation of the mysteries of Christ's story. It is the ‘epitome of the whole gospel’ (CCC 971). The repeated prayers set the rhythm- the quiet cadence that brings us into his presence. And the scripture stories of our savior give us breath” - Elizabeth Foss, 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 N...

Hey friends! This week, we discuss something that has been life-giving in my life. Spending time cultivating rhythm and order may seem silly at first glance, but I have found over the years that family rhythms can be a real source of life for our hearts and souls. St. Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 14:40 that "all things should be done decently and in order." This is a good reminder to u...

Friends, I could not be more excited to share this conversation with you all. Today, I wrap up the prayer series we have been doing with speaker, author, and ministry leader - Jason Evert.  We dive headfirst into a very important topic, the last line of the prayer, which is "Rush for Nothing at All!" What does this mean? When praying through this line, one of my all-time favorite saints...

I'm excited to be jumping into the third part of this prayer series and second part of the prayer itself to explore the piece - "Soften My Face & Quiet My Voice." It was such a delight to have the joyful momma blogger, Alexandria DeRose, join me to explore this topic. There is a universal calling placed onto the hearts of every woman alike to soften our faces and quiet our voice...

This week we dive head first into the first line of the prayer we are exploring: “Break me from the need to control, free me from this bondage.” I couldn’t be more delighted to have had the chance to sit down with my sweet friend and momma mentor, Bonnie Landry, to discuss the idea of letting go of control.  Our weary souls are often grasping tightly to as much control as we can maintain because w...

This week we kick off a new series that is very near and dear to my heart with a very special guest, Father Mark-Mary, CFR. The series relates to a prayer that our Lord placed on my heart a year ago. Over the next few weeks, we will be diving into the various components to this prayer: "Lord, break me from the need to control Free me from this bondage. Soften my face, quiet my voice, and let...

This week’s episode was something my own momma heart needed so desperately to hear. After a tear-filled cry to momma Mary, I was reminded that “Newsflash: You are not responsible for your children’s happiness.” We mommas love our children so profoundly and deeply, that we often carry around a heavy chain of responsibility that was never meant for our shoulders. Instead, our prime duty to our child...

I am so excited to share this conversation with you all. I had the chance to sit down with my dear friend, and author Dr. Bob Schuchts on the fundamental truth that we all need healing. Dr. Bob is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center, and is a nationally renowned speaker. Bob is the author of Be Healed: Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life, and Be Transformed: The Healing...

Emptiness- is it as bad as it seems? In fact, it is my word of the year! Now, before you start to worry and feel bad for my weary heart, there is so much in this episode that I would love to share with you about the greater and bigger meaning behind emptiness, that I have only begun to discover. The word empty which Webster defines as "containing nothing, not occupied or inhabited", is o...

Hey Friends! Welcome back to a brand-new season of Latte & Laundry.  We open up Season 3 with the start of a new year,  2022.  For many of us 2021 was not an easy year. In fact, it was often filled with confusion and anxiety. Yet, through Christ's most perfect example at the wedding of Cana, we can see how the dry and empty can often be transformed into something beautiful and new. I am s...

In our season finale we are excited about our last topic: Breathing Life into our Children. As parents, we can do so much good for our kids but we can also cause so much damage through our words and actions. We often forget how incredibly important words are, especially for young minds and hearts. It is our job as parents to love and be patient with our children just as God is so unbelievably pati...

In this episode we are stripping away and revealing the truth behind the idea of worldly perfectionism . In this day in age we often feel the need to prove ourselves to others, and in trying to fulfill this wayward desire, we forget our true purpose and that is of perfect unity with Christ. Perfection can have a very negative connotation because it frequently takes over our thoughts and minds like...

As we wrap up our four 'D' word series we wanted to end with another positive word. What better way to end than with our ultimate calling, being a disciple of Christ. To be a true disciple of Christ means we follow and imitate His ways and no one else. What we do and say is a reflection of the one that we follow.  That is why we have to be so careful about who or what we follow. The worl...

This week we are excited to talk about a powerful word, delight . We are moving from the dangerous words to such powerful words. Our word this week focuses both on how God delights so much in us but also how we are called to delight in everything and everyone around us. Life can often become impossible to bear and things around us become a blur but when we can stop and delight in things around us...

This week we are continuing our four part 'D' word series. Our focus will be on the dangerous word of Despair.  Despair is not sadness, grief, or heart shattering pain. It is the "utter loss of hope." (Webster dictionary) Life will always bring crosses and we have every right to feel sad, angry, and frustrated by what has happened to us. God, however, has given us the great vir...

We are so excited to start a new four part series on two dangerous 'D' words and two powerful 'D' words! In this episode we focus on the dangerous 'D' word: Deserve. It's a word we toss around and use easily and carelessly without giving much thought to what we are proclaiming. Though there are truths to the word, for example, we deserve the right to life, we des...

This week we were so blessed to spend time chatting with author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and spiritual mother to many- Sally Clarkson. Her new book “Help I’m Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope” couldn’t be available at a more critical time in our world today. With the intense political atmosphere, pandemic woes, overseas crisis, new school year and fall activities kic...

This week we complete our series on the Transcendentals with Truth .  Truth is the final one we talk about because it tends to be the more difficult of the transcendentals to draw us to God. "The truth will set you free." (Jn 8:32) But the question is, what is truth? In this episode we dive into what truth is: subjective vs objective. Subjective truth can change based on what my likes an...