I was not an easy kid.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.