Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival. We are a group of Catholic bloggers who gather weekly to share our best posts with each other. To participate, go to your blog and create a post titled Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival. In it, discuss and link to your posts for the week–whether they deal with theology, Catholic living or cute Catholic kids.
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Question of the week: Do you have any spiritual New Year’s Resolutions?
Answer: Yes- to use my facemask and breathing machine EVERY night, even it is only for 4 or 5 hours and even though it is uncomfortable because I do get times of deep sleep when I use it. This is for my spiritual health not only my physical, mental and emotional well being because I cannot focus and centre on God when I am exhausted,
Although I am tiny, I have sleep apnea which means I stop breathing, snore LOUDLY and never get to deep levels of rest. So, I am always exhausted. As the sleep specialist, a physician, said, ” Basically you sleep like a 75 year-old woman dozing on a bus.” Trying to find a mask to fit my face has been a failure because they do not make children’s size full face masks. Finally a company came out with one extra small mask but I still had to adjust the straps so tightly that I would wake up after an hour or so in pain. Some how, after giving up for months, somehow, I was able to sleep through the night with the mask on!! I woke up the last few days from a deep sleep! This could literally change my life. This is a BIG DEAL. The only drawback is that I am walking around with a bright red mark across the bridge of my nose.
Melanie Jean Juneau serves as the Editor in Chief of Catholic Stand. She is a mother of nine children who has edited her kid's university term papers for over a decade. She blogs at joy of nine9 and mother of nine9. Her writing is humorous and heart warming; thoughtful and thought-provoking. Part of her call and her witness is to write the truth about children, family, marriage and the sacredness of life. Melanie is the administrator of ACWB, a columnist at CatholicLane, CatholicStand, Catholic365 , CAPC, author of Echoes of the Divine and Oopsy Daisy, and coauthor of Love Rebel: Reclaiming Motherhood.
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7 thoughts on “Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival”
My son in law suffered from this and wound up changing his sleep posture and it went away. Odd.
Although I am tiny, I have sleep apnea which means I stop breathing, snore LOUDLY and never get to deep levels of rest. So, I am always exhausted. As the sleep specialist, a physician, said, ” Basically you sleep like a 75 year-old woman dozing on a bus.” Trying to find a mask to fit my face has been a failure because they do not make children’s size full face masks. Finally a company came out with one extra small mask but I still had to adjust the straps so tightly that I would wake up after an hour or so in pain. Some how, after giving up for months, somehow, I was able to sleep through the night with the mask on!! I woke up the last few days from a deep sleep! This could literally change my life. This is a BIG DEAL. The only drawback is that I am walking around with a bright red mark across the bridge of my nose.
joy of nine9 
My son in law suffered from this and wound up changing his sleep posture and it went away. Odd.
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I think that sleeping on your side is a cure
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May God bless you Melanie with good sleep, and with good health!
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thank-you so much
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Yes I love the idea of finding more Catholic bloggers. Our family resolution is too try and model our behavior from The Holy Family.
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wonderful idea
check us out and come join us,re- posting your articles , with a link to your blog at http://associationofcatholicwomenbloggers.blogspot.ca/
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