Check out this great video from a couple in Ireland with five children. In it, they discuss seeing each of your children as a treasure, keeping the marriage young, and being a good father. I particularly enjoyed the bit about spending time with your children. “Marriage is our Path to Heaven” Close Bookmark and Share This [...]

Every year, my wife takes the kids away for 2 weeks to her sister’s camp. And every year, I face the same demon named porn who tempts me to masturbation.  I met “this guy” back in high-school and I almost went blind. But when I entered the seminary in college, I was able to control [...]

Welcome back to As For Me And My House, the place where the rubber meets the road. I am a Nodling generator. Astute readers of my blog will have noticed a new seal that appeared several weeks ago without explanation. It shows a small set of footprints encircled by the words “Official Nodlings Generator”. The [...]

Welcome to As For Me And My House! This series chronicles the place where “the rubber meets the road” in the Nod household. For those of you just tuning in: these are the Nods. Boys. They are like chips off of the old block. When they’re four years old, they follow Daddy everywhere, because he’s [...]

As noted in the first post, I will be delving deep into the patrimony of the Church to unearth the various tidbits of wisdom that the Popes through the ages have imparted to us fathers on the front lines. When I first proposed this topic, I thought I would either start at the beginning and [...]

One of my sons friends came over the other day- let’s call him Carl. He had met him when they were both new transfers to the Catholic school my son attends three years ago. He is a polite boy, always calls me Mr. and my wife Mrs. Always says please and thank you. He had [...]

Matthew Warner over at Fallible Blogma has a good post that I just saw today on The most important thing a father can do. He starts by quoting Fr. Theodore Hesburgh: “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” He then adds That is why your marriage [...]

From psychology I learned that women need to be loved as men need to be trusted.  It’s just how the sexes respond to affirmation.  So I keep this in mind and drop casual and subtle messages of appreciation to my wife every now and then.  Like when we went for buffet tonight, I saw some [...]

Yesterday I encouraged Catholic Dads to stay married. Perhaps not coincidentally, I came across this tidbit today in an article on marriage that quoted a professor at Utah State University: I found that the more time that spouses spend together, the happier they are in their marriage. In fact, spending time together was one of [...]

If I recall, I think Rob had a post a while back encouraging the other Catholic Dads to share stories of how our lives had been influenced by a particular priest — what with this being the Year of the Priest and all. In that vein, here’s my contribution. Around Christmastime of 1999, during my [...]