Life feels like it has been more hectic than ever lately, since our third baby was born last year. He’s not been a great sleeper, which makes days relentlessly busy and nights don’t always provide enough rest to adequately recharge for the next day. Part of me can’t wait for him to grow out …
A Biblical Walk Through The Mass does exactly what the title describes – Edward Sri literally walks the reader through the Mass, from the sign of the cross to the final blessing and dismissal. Each step of the way, he explains the origin of the Mass’s prayers, symbols and rituals with specific reference to …
Things change as your kids get older. When we first started praying the Stations of the Cross as a family during Lent, I printed off these prayers and reflections and off we went. Now my eldest can read fluently and wants to read them. So this year I collated them into an A6 size …
Cardboard boxes are so easy to acquire for free. Apart from boxes we’ve collected from buying products packaged in them, we’ve also gotten them from local supermarkets, hardware stores and bottle shops. Sometimes these places have an area where they leave boxes for anyone to take. Other times I’ve just asked at the customer service …
Over the last year or so, we have been learning heaps about what different foods do to our bodies and what foods our bodies need (and need to avoid) to function well. We’ve made lots of changes to our diet. We cut out sugar, most processed foods, hydrogenated oils and most dairy. We started …
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This potato and cauliflower bake is a simple, tasty, throw-it-all-in veggie dish. Treat all my quantities as approximate and flexible – I took the “throw-it-all-in” thing fairly literally and am not sure exactly what quantities I used! I just threw in enough veg to look like a balanced mix and filled a 3L/23x33cm rectangular …
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I’ve found this simple hack in numerous places around the internet, so have no idea which person or persons came up with the idea. But it is a good one! I pretty much live in these while breastfeeding. Great for modest feeding and keeping your tummy covered when the weather or baby’s hands are …
A few years ago, I decided to start a new family tradition: praying the Stations of the Cross as a family on Good Friday. Attending the Triduum services already made for a busy weekend, including late nights on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday, plus skipping afternoon naps on Good Friday. It was just a …
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Last week, I shared some of the natural, synthetic-chemical-free products we’ve started using to clean our home. Today, we’re onto going chemical-free in the bathroom. Here are the natural toiletry alternatives we’ve swapped to so far: Natural bar soap We used to use liquid hand “soaps” and body wash, but began to realize …
As I mentioned in my tomato sauce recipe post, we’ve been getting wary about synthetic chemicals in our food. That wariness also extends to the use of chemicals throughout the rest of our home. With a little bit of research, it’s not hard to find simple, natural and frugal alternatives for our cleaning and …
