Once our Advent calendar of activities is sorted out our first activity is to set up our Advent wreath. We made our wreath a few years ago and re use it every year. I usually get at least two years out of the long taper candles and really only replace them as necessary. This […]
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For those Mums who would like to make a different Advent journey this year please join in our Advent Calendar. Each day during Advent I will be posting a new activity you and your family can undertake to prepare for the Christmas season. Craft activities that involve sewing will also feature a no-sew variation
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Each year on the first day of Advent we set up our Advent Calendar. This is generally the day that I sit down and work out what this year’s order of Advent activities will be. We already have an Advent Calendar, a quilted wall hanging with pockets into which I place small squares of paper
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The feminine mistake: the criminalisation of masculinity To open the door or not to open the door – for a lot of men that really is the question. Personally I love it when men open the door for me and that’s not just because I have small children and I’m usually struggling to push an
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Three years ago I wanted to prepare my children, the eldest then 3 and a half, spiritually for Christmas and to offset the secular messages that bombarded them from well, September onwards. Eventually I decided to take a different approach to the Advent calendars that offered a chocolate or a lolly for each day of
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This is a quick and simple Bible craft activity using bits and pieces from around the house. The best thing is that Jonah actually fits inside the whale! What you’ll need: a rectangular tea bag box, grey and pink paint, grey card or paper, a toilet roll and scraps of patterned or coloured paper, pipe
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Our eldest child is five and a half and he has never received a present from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, neither have our subsequent children. Early on in our marriage my husband and I each voiced our disapproval of the commercialisation and secularisation of Christmas and Santa Claus particularly. We wanted to keep our
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Part 3: Death of the old feminist series The image of a well educated and professional businesswomen juggling her career and family and managing to have dinner on the table when her husband gets home from work is that unattainable myth that the feminists led us to believe we could achieve. However, as most women
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Part 2: Death of the old feminist series If there were a competition to find the institution most despised by feminists, surely first prize would be awarded to the Catholic Church. As far as institutions go, we are patriarchal, that is we consider God as our father and our clergy are all male. We renounce
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Part 1: Death of the old feminist series Feminism has long stood out as the champion of women’s causes. From the Suffragettes, to the emancipation of women and their right to vote, feminism fought for the equal dignity and opportunity of all women. So how then, did this rather noble cause turn into a movement
