About Me

Messy Buns and Latin Chant was started to stave off the stay-at-home-mom isolation, but I quickly fell in love with writing. My little corner of the internet over here is a place to share my thoughts as a wife, mother, Catholic, and American.

I was raised in a big Catholic family on a steady diet of traditional liturgy, 4H, and homeschooling. I studied psychology and dabbled in philosophy in college, then met a handsome engineering student, and settled into domestic life. We are striving to raise our expanding family with traditional values, and end up being about half-crunchy parents most of the time. If you ask my husband what our "parenting philosophy" is, he will respond: "We don't negotiate with terrorists."

On weekends, I work as an organist at our parish, playing both the Novus Ordo and Tridentine Masses. I truly love both, but have to admit, there really isn't anything as magnificent as Gregorian Chant.

You can find me here fairly regularly and as a contributing writer for Catholicmom.com. I'm always looking for new places to write as well.