by Catherine | Oct 9, 2018 | Podcast
***LITTLE EARS WARNING: We talk about the HPV vaccine and some sensitive material in this episode***
I apologize that I didn’t have an episode ready for you last weekend! I was too sick to record, and I didn’t have my life together enough to let you know. Thank you for bearing with me! I hope to resume weekly episodes going forward until Baby arrives in March.
This week, my husband, Dr. Philip Boucher, played my special guest. He answered questions from you listeners about all things parenting and pediatrics. Thank you for all of your wonderful questions! In this episode, he answered questions about these topics:
- HPV vaccine (What is HPV anyway, and how is it transmitted? Is the vaccine just for girls? Does it promote promiscuity? My child isn’t sexually active, so why should they get it? What about the side effects I keep hearing about?
- General vaccine questions: Who decides what the recommended vaccine schedule should be? Are vaccines a large source of income for doctors?
- Anxiety in young children, especially boys (What’s normal and what’s not? When do I need to make an appointment? How can I help my child with anxiety?)
- Bedwetting with older kids. When should I be concerned? What’s attention-getting/discipline-worthy? When do I need to make an appointment with the pediatrician?
- General guidelines–what warrants a trip to the doctor and what doesn’t?
- Food allergies/sensitivities: Can parents cause the sensitivities by avoiding certain foods or delaying introducing them?
- Does he (Dr. Boucher) judge moms that use formula? I. Love. This. Question. 🙂
A few links/resources mentioned:
Let’s connect!
- I love hearing from you! Do you have any follow-up questions to today’s conversation with Dr. Boucher? I’d love to hear them and have him on again in a future episode to answer your questions!
- Please send any of your questions, topic suggestions, book/TV/movie recommendations my way! As always, you can find me on FB or IG or e-mail me at podcast AT catherine boucher DOT com
- If you haven’t already, please give the show a rating/review on iTunes! Let’s keep growing the While You Were Folding Community!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Android |
by Catherine | Sep 26, 2018 | Podcast
My last podcast episode dropped July 11. We had made the decision to move forward with a new adoption agency to adopt a baby from South Korea. I promised to be back in September with new episodes, but I was going to take time off from the podcast so that I could focus on adoption paperwork and the start of the new school year.
Well…God decided we needed a little PLOT TWIST!
In today’s episode, I share all about our exciting news, how our family is responding to the change of plans, and what we’ve been up to since July.
Links/Resources mentioned in this episode:
Next Week:
I’m going to have my husband, Catholic dad and pediatrician, Dr. Philip Boucher, come on the show! I’ve received a lot of questions for him about pediatrics-related stuff. If you have any questions about pediatrics or parenting that you’d like him to answer, please send me your questions! You can e-mail me at podcast AT catherineboucher DOT com
I love hearing from you! Please send your questions, topic suggestions, book/TV/movie recommendations, and summer sanity saving tips my way. As always, you can find on FB OR IG or e-mail me at podcast AT catherine boucher DOT com
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Android |
by Catherine | Jul 11, 2018 | Podcast
An adoption update! In today’s episode, I shared:
- Our history with wanting to adopt, our previous application to adopt from China
- Our decision to withdraw from our previous adoption agency and no longer pursue adoption from China
- A quick overview of how international adoption works in general
- The bad news: We have to start all over again (again)
- The good news: We’ve done it before, so we’re pros!
- The awesome part: Why we decided we are pursuing an adoption from South Korea (Check out our adoption agency’s information page to learn more about adoption from South Korea.)
- preserving birth order (our adopted child will be our youngest child and, God-willing, have younger biological siblings in the future)
- shorter timeline because of our goal to have at least one more biological child
- time between application and match (aka referral), averages between 6-12 months
- child is usually 18-30 months at the time of placement (aka homecoming)
- strong foster care system
- excellent medical care provided for child, accuracy of medical records sent to adoptive parents for deciding on referrals & continued communication
- possibility of relationship with birth parents
- our children are encouraged to join us on the trips there! (2 short, week-long visits involved)
- What does all of this mean for us right now?
- We are trying to complete all of our paperwork ASAP (goal: dossier submission in September)
I’m hitting pause on the podcast until September to focus on our adoption. I’ll be back in the fall with new episodes and interviews.
Please keep in touch until then! As always, you can e-mail me at podcastATcatherineboucherDOTcom or find me on Facebook or Instagram
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Android |
by Catherine | Jun 27, 2018 | Podcast
Sorry I missed you last week! We decided to skip town and head to Kansas City while our house’s main floor is getting a remodel. That picture is our family at Worlds of Fun as we waited out a rainstorm that never ended.
Trip recap:
New favorite thing: Donuts and drinks on the parish playground after Mass. Kids play, parents catch up. Everyone wins!
What I’ve been reading:
Book Buddies With Jane & Friends
- If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back to Episode 013 Starting a Kids’ Book Club
- We have our next meeting this weekend to discuss Lisa Hendey’s book, The Mystery at Midnight ( from her Chime Travelers series about twins who go back in time to solve mysteries about saints)
- Listener Sheila contacted me to say that her daughters started their own book club this summer! They already met once and are hoping to read 3 books this summer.
Catechesis programs for little ones: What do you know about Catechesis of the Good Shepherd? How does your church reach the little ones?
The Well-Behaved Child by Dr. John Rosemond check discipline system
- 6 Checks (keep track on dry erase board in kitchen)
- Checks 1-3 are warnings (“buffer zone,” limit this for older kids)
- Check 4: Lose dessert
- Check 5: Lose screens
- Check 6: Go to bed 1 hour early
Amanda wants to know how I get the kids to “work it out”
- In response to my annual summer PSA on FB to the neighbors, letting them know that they’re going to hear a lot of screaming from my house that they haven’t been hearing all winter
- Summer rules
- Bodies have private parts that stay private
- Keep your body to yourself
- Tidy up before you leave
- Work it out
- Walt’s 1st grade teacher taught them: Unless there’s blood, barf, or a bathroom emergency, you can probably handle it.
- Talk to the person you’re having a problem with. Talk to them again. And again. Ask friends for help if you need to. Come to an adult if you really can’t work it out or if it’s an emergency.
- When they come to tattle, whine, or get me to referee I say
- That doesn’t sound like an emergency. That sounds like something you need to work out with _____. Come back if it’s an emergency.
- I let them know with my body language that I’m not engaging them on it.
- They come less
- How do you help your kids learn to work it out? Do you have household ground rules that are helping everyone to have a happier summer? Send them my way! I want to hear about them!
Please keep sharing the show with your friends! Teach them about the world of podcasts, put the show on their phones, and make sure they’re subscribed so that they won’t miss new episodes as they come out.
Get in Touch!
You can e-mail me at podcastATcatherineboucherDOTcom or find me on Facebook or Instagram
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Android |
by Catherine | Jun 13, 2018 | Podcast
This week, I’m sharing a conversation I had with Ashley Stevens about how she and her three girls thrive when her husband, Brad, has to travel for work. She share some great tips and general advice.
My weekly recap:
- Our kids are participating in the Diocese of Lincoln’s Totus Tuus program this week
- It is so much fun to finally be a read-aloud family! Audiobooks before naptime are a major hit. The kids usually color or play with their Plus-Plus tubes. We are about halfway through the Henry Huggins audiobooks. Our bedtime read-aloud is Where the Red Fern grows. We have 3 contenders for our next read-aloud, and we’d love for you to weigh in with your vote:
- Big milestone last Friday night: I took the kids to the pool by myself for the first time!
- What are your limiting beliefs? How are you battling them?
Links/Resources mentioned this episode:
- FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students)
- Ashley’s blog and ministry page, Mountains Unmoved
- Ashley’s post, “Why Are Some Mountains Left Unmoved?” where she shares about the inspiration for the name of her ministry and links to her interview on the 700 Club
- The lie of “this is the way things will always be forever”
- How Brad participates in disciplining when he’s traveling
- Favorite games to play with Brad when he’s home:
- Ashley’s blog post, “Friendship is Worth the Awkwardness“
- Making friendship connections when Brad is gone
- What makes life simple when Brad is gone:
- Making a big meal before Brad leaves and reheating each day
- Blessings/pros of having Brad travel for work
- Travel reward points to visit relatives
- Getting to watch her shows on Netflix!
- More time to work on her ministry
- Self time to recharge
- In Praise of ‘Scruffy Hospitality’
- Things “saving Ashley’s life” when Brad is gone:
- Roomba
- YMCA’s 2-hour babysitting
- The Well-Behaved Child by Dr. John Rosemond check discipline system
- 6 Checks (keep track on dry erase board in kitchen)
- Checks 1-3 are warnings (“buffer zone,” limit this for older kids)
- Check 4: Lose dessert
- Check 5: Lose screens
- Check 6: Go to bed 1 hour early
- Ashley’s “holiness hack”
- Book: He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.
- Quote: “What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?”
- Turning her alarm back another 30 minutes to add to prayer time and bring peace to morning routine
Connect with Ashley!
Get in touch!
- As always, you can e-mail me at podcastATcatherineboucherDOTcom or find me on Facebook or Instagram
- Please subscribe to, rate, and review the show in iTunes to help grow our audience!
- Remember, I’d like your feedback on:
- our next read-aloud
- your limiting beliefs
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Android |
by Catherine | Jun 6, 2018 | Podcast
Last week’s recap:
- The summer chore chart is still a success around here
- Philip and I celebrated our 10-year anniversary and had a quick getaway to Palm Springs
- I’m 20 years late to the Harry Potter party. I need your opinion: Should I read the other books on paper or listen to the audio versions? Weigh in! Also, which house do you think the Sorting Hat would put me in? (Marriage tip: Don’t tell your husband would be a Slytherin!)
The Fast Food Rule:
Audiobooks and Read-Aloud Time:
Questions for YOU:
- How’s your summer going? What are your summer hacks?
- What are your favorite audiobooks (for children or yourself)?
Get in touch!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Android |
