About Me

I am a 30-something Catholic woman, living with a witty husband (he helps to balance my overly serious, introverted personality) and our three children in the Archdiocese of NY.    

John and I have been married for 13 years.  We met in college and began dating a couple years after graduation.  We settled in the Hudson Valley but are both native New Yorkers.   Currently, we are a family of five, but we are hoping to become a family of six through adoption.  We’ve just began the search and match process to adopt through the foster care system. 

This is my family: my husband John, daughter Samantha, and sons John and Matthew. Photo was taken in October 2017, and we’ve since lost our beloved pooch, Evan. So glad we got a family portrait with our very special boy.

As a cradle Catholic, I spent most of my years trying to fill the God-sized hole in my heart with everything but God, until His Grace broke it open.  

I was baptized as an infant, and received all my sacraments as a child.  I attended Catholic school from grade 7 onward.  I learned about our religion but  I always sensed something was missing and often felt “empty.”  I didn’t understand that it was because I was missing a relationship with God. So I spent a lot of years trying to fill that emptiness with achievements, awards, relationships, anything really.  But ever so slowly, God was drawing me near to Him. 

It is true that a soul can frustrate God’s action and place barriers of stiff resistance to God’s interventions, but no one has the power to terminate God’s pursuit…The desires of God for a soul remain hidden from sight.  He may be drawing someone to himself long before that soul becomes aware of it.

Conversion, Father Donald Haggerty

Slowly and gently through grace, he placed small little cracks in my hardened heart. And then one day, He finally broke it fully open. Some people call it their “Come to Jesus” moment, but I can safely say that it wasn’t just one moment for me, but lots and lots of them, culminating in a point of no return.

By sharing my personal stories, I hope to inspire others to discover that there is something greater for all of us than the world tells us. 

A missionary impulse enters into our soul in undergoing a conversion.  We want the truth of God’s mercy to be known, the taste of his presence to pierce others…The world shines in a luminous appearance once the truth of a personal God and his mercy becomes undeniably evident to our soul.

Conversion, Father Donald Haggerty

Jesus is waiting to transform our hearts.