One of the best compliments I have ever received is this: ‘Your children have beautiful manners.’ It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to jump in the air, like they do in the car commercials, and scream ‘hooray’. Because, let’s face it, it means that your effort is paying off! As much […]
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I’ve been called a lot of things in my life some nice, some not so nice and mostly true, but more recently I was taken aback by two comments on one morning by two lovely religious sisters independent of each other. Last week was the first week of the school holidays which means that
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You might have noticed that the latest catalogues are presently full of garden tools, seeds, bulbs and the like. This is because autumn is a very busy season in the life of a gardener, no matter their aptitude, that sets up the beauty of a spring garden in bloom. Autumn provides cooler weather in
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My husband and I have been married for six and a half years now and just over a year ago we decided to move off the family farm as my husband was given a career opportunity that excited him intellectually. My husband now manages an agricultural branch in my hometown. He has four employees
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SpottyWot and DottyWot might be fictional characters on the ABC2 show ‘The WotWots’ but there are certainly similarities between the cute aliens and my four beautiful children. I kid you not. Of course, the characters are very much modelled on inquisitive children so you might say it’s not that much of a stretch to
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‘Mary did you know’ is a Christmas song that has divided Christians with its questions posed to the Virgin Mary about her knowledge of the redemptive mission of Our Lord. This Advent, I tried my hand at a less theologically divisive version, instead focusing on the idea of Our Lady meditating – pondering – on her role in our salvation.
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Dear New Mother, Congratulations and welcome to the world of creation. God has chosen to crown your marriage and allow you to share in His work of creation. Of course, this is not something to be taken lightly. This small bundle of joy you delivered after hours of gruelling labour and pain you hardly thought
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Stylists and fashion icons have often put together lists of the ten must have items for women who want to make a good impression. More often than not these lists are best suited to professional women who don’t have small children to look after. So that got me thinking. What would the ten wardrobe staples
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For those who read my post last year on the tradition of Santa Claus will be far from surprised to learn that in my household, we don’t ‘do’ the Easter Bunny, nor will we…ever. In fact, my husband absolutely detests the idea of the Easter Bunny – though perhaps he had a bias to begin
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When it comes to Lent it’s very easy to focus on the more practical aspects of preparing for Easter. We can get bogged down in our fasting, abstinence and penance and forget that while our children might be dragged along with us on the journey to the Resurrection, the whole concept of Lent
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