Natural Family Planning Awareness Week

Well, NFP awareness week concluded. No big celebrations around here, but I did go to a speaker last night at our parish. As anticipated, I was the only spouse-less person in the room. Well, except for Fr. Peter. ;)

Information wasn't really new, but it is certainly nice to hear it being talked about in an open forum. In fact, last week I heard (for the first time I can EVER remember) a priest talk about NFP during his homily. I was slack-jawed, but it was so well done (kudos to Fr. Ben at St. Thomas!).

I was tweeting about being solo at a sort of "couples/family" event last night and stumbled upon a blog I think some of my fellow blog readers will enjoy ... which is why I'm blogging about last night. Because it'd be strange to just post a blog link with nothing else, right?

So anyway, I landed on THIS page. The different parts in her series are really great, so feel free to go poke around.

One quick note, I know there are some non-Catholic readers out there (sup, Gatsby Girl?), and I just want to say you do NOT have to be Catholic to use NFP. I have some friends who are decidedly not religious, but are sick of extra chemicals and hormones in their bodies who are giving it a whirl.

On a sort of related note ... I'm trying to decide if I should go to the Family Life weekend/convention here in Salina. I simply can't deciiiiiide. I listened one of Christopher West's tapes and was underwhelmed. But I'd read JPII's Theology of the Body prior to hearing West's tape. And I heard it was one of his first tapes out ... and that he's tamed down his "the average person shouldn't read Theology of the Body because it's too complex for them to understand" message.


Maybe there would be new/additional insight in a live presentation? Heck, if anyone wants to trek to town for the event, I'd gladly go along!

Here's the scoop:

Ok, so you have been spoiled with daily blog posts.

That's because I pre-blogged a ton, and my pre-blogging has all been blogged.

So, patience while I get more stuff together. Still a ton of photos to share from DC ....

In other news around here:

• I'm SO CLOSE to getting the rain barrel overflows complete!!! I promise, a full blog post (maybe even video) when it happens.

• Wrestling with figuring out how to pay sales taxes online. Seriously, state. I know you want to cut budgets and this is more cheap for you, but HELLO!!!! Summer is a massively busy season for us. Why now?

• In all of my free time, I'm reading the following book:


It stems from NFP (the other major NFP model is HERE).

Even for the general person, there's a wealth of excellent information about eating a balanced diet. Just all around good reading.

• It's 7 a.m. and I want to take a nap. Sheesh.

• Mike and I are gearing up for the big bridal show in Wichita in about 2 weeks!!!! Still some last minute stuff to do, but we're in fairly good shape.

• I've been eating an obscene amount of guacamole as of late. I stinkin' love that stuff ... and it's SOOOO tasty!!!! Anyone else? Oh, I want some more now!

• I'm listening to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" on CD right now. Unabridged. It's long. And not much about the hunchback so far ... but once I got past the Disney version and expected it to be all about him, I'm enjoying it rather a lot.