Hi! I'm Nell. Here we are as babies before babies. Whole Parenting Family came to be when one day my mom remarked "Gosh, you've read a lot of books on parenting, natural child birth, breastfeeding, cooking, gardening, and diapering. Why aren't you running one of those online blog things?" So I started a blog in mid-winter of 2011. I was still working part-time as an attorney, mothering my 7 month old boy, and running a household. But creative writing has always been my first love, long … read more about About
natural parenting for the modern family
the “right” way to become a saint
How many times do you see fights about Catholic womanhood on the internet? How many tweets and replies and heated stranger-v-stranger on someone else’s facebook post about the right way to be a Catholic woman and the only way to be a saint. It kinda turns my stomach. Look, I get it. We all love a moral higher ground! We all want to feel fully vindicated in our choices […]
Spring Sewing
Ah! It’s nearly spring here in Minnesota and as I gaze upon my poor neglected blog I realized, yes, it’s been two months since I said anything here. Did you miss me?! Spring means I’ve been sewing up a storm. But in a fun twist of events, so has my dear friend Cynthia. When you […]
on failing as a lawyer & gifts
I sent resume after resume on the resume paper you’re supposed to send it out on. The employment market had crashed to a smoldering pile of burnt resumes (mine, all of them, probably). My credentials from law school and a federal clerkship, a work-abroad fellowship, all did not amount to the 5-8 years experience required. So when we moved […]