Degrees in Idealism

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Mass in the Time of Covid

09.04.2020 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

We have been going to in-person Mass with our four children since May. I have had a lot of other people ask us how we do this, if we feel safe, if it’s been difficult, etc. Now, everyone’s risk factors are different and no one person can decide for another person whether in-person Mass is […]

Categories // Culture, Family, Soul Tags // #catholic, #covid, #family, #mass

Coronavirus and the Soul

03.13.2020 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

If the coronavirus had hit seven years ago, I would have been terrified. I’m immunocompromised, but I’m also prone to anxiety and worst-case scenario thinking. I always tend to assume that if it is going to happen to someone then it is going to happen to me or the ones I love. But then I […]

Categories // Family, Soul Tags // #coronavirus, #faithofourfathers, #family, #pandemic, #prayer

Christmas Does Not Belong to Me

12.18.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 1 Comment

I just want to make sure we have OUR Christmas. I’ve said it to my friends and my friends have said it to me. Somewhere between college graduation and thirtieth birthdays Christmas becomes super, super busy. And we feel like it’s all about other people. All about extended relatives. All about work parties or neighborhood parties […]

Categories // Culture, Family, Soul Tags // #christmas, #family, #parenting

How We Advent (And Advent Music)

12.01.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 1 Comment

When I was about ten my dad first introduced us to the old custom of Adventing before Christmas and Christmasing until Epiphany. At first, it was quite difficult for me to accept. My dad and I had many debates about how early was too early to turn on the real Christmas songs and all the […]

Categories // Culture, Family, Soul Tags // #advent, #christmas, #family, #koselig, #liturgicalliving

Homeschooling Preschool

02.26.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

Our oldest child is only 4.5 so we certainly don’t have a lot of homeschooling experience. But since I’m about to have a “homeschooled preschool” graduate, I thought I would share our general plan for these early years: When in doubt, do less (in terms of academics.) Every year since my oldest was a baby I’ve had […]

Categories // Beauty, Family Tags // #charlottemason, #children, #family, #homeschool, #koselig, #liturgicalliving, #parenting, #preschool

The Third Child

01.16.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I’ve only been a mother to a third child for six weeks (well, technically about eleven months,) but I’ve long known about the stereotype of the third child. Really, it’s the stereotype of any subsequent child— that parents kind of care about each one less and less. Or at least, that each one receives less […]

Categories // Family Tags // #birthorder, #children, #family, #parenthood, #siblings

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About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to four little boys (and another little boy on the way,) a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. Links to my fiction books are at the bottom of the page.

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