This can be served with chicken and vegetables for dinner or simply by itself! Note: I usually just go off what’s in the cupboard for this recipe. If there are no raisins that’s okay. Sometimes I add broccoli or frozen peas as well. My nine month old baby loves this recipe, but I leave out […]
——————————– I knew I was going to like this book as soon as I read the title “Holiness For Housewives: And Other Working Women”. Zeller chose to say other, which gave me confidence that he understood that although being a housewife and stay at home mum may not be a paid job, it is WORK.
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Sometimes we may get this impression that saints lived hundreds of years ago and they were these dull and dreary figures in history. What we are failing to realise is that they all had one (of rather two) things in common – they loved God with all their heart and … they were CHEERFUL!
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A delicious and simple family meal, and you can freeze the leftovers for next time! Originally posted 2015-03-23 12:00:23.
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From the first few pages to the end, this book was an engaging read. Danielle Bean, in a manner that reads like a chat with a close girlfriend, sets out to encourage and lift up mums who, though they love their kids and husbands, can often end up feeling exhausted, burned out, disillusioned and doubtful
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Gossip is very much a part of our culture. Morning programs have regular segments dedicated to celebrity gossip marketed as ‘news’. Magazines such as ‘New Idea’ and ‘Woman’s Day’ make their money out of peddling gossip about celebrities and we, as a society can’t get enough. We have shows such as ‘Gossip Girls’ that
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A great meal if you forgot to defrost meat in the morning! A quick and easy family meal. Originally posted 2015-03-16 12:00:26.
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My children are becoming more independent every day. Master 6 and Miss 4 have been making their breakfast, with varying degrees of success, for about 6 months now. This is, I’ll admit, often a messy way to begin the morning but their skills have improved out of sight and the biggest issue we run
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We have recently been blessed with identical twin boys who are now 11 weeks old. That brings us to a total of five kids under five! Life is certainly busy and the house is perpetually noisy. The days go fleeting by filled with a lot of love, laughter, joy, and happiness but also accompanied by
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I have been a mum now for almost 7 years (where did that time go?) and I’ve met and spoken to a lot of mums, in those years in particular, and I’m beginning to wonder if there are four mothering styles. You see, we don’t all approach our role and vocation as mother in
