As I write this I am four days overdue with baby number 5. This is not unexpected and is something of our pattern. Our children have all been chubby, posterior presenting babies who take their time to engage. Our experiences of childbirth have been drawn out affairs, with a lot of back pain and […]
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It will come as no surprise that I am an avid reader. A graduate of an arts degree that, along with journalism, enriched my already deep love of literature, I am a books over television kind of girl (this amuses my husband who is the opposite and constantly jokes that I should just
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If there was one comment I heard a lot towards the end of the summer school holidays it was this: “I can’t wait for the kids to go back to school.” Mum after mum, from Jessica Rowe on Channel 10’s morning show – which I only heard because I was waiting in the obstetrician’s
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My husband calls it ‘feathering my nest’, and it borders on compulsive, but here I am, the mother of a newborn, dealing with a nesting instinct that has caught me unawares. To be honest, I doubt that there is a condition called post baby nesting. Certainly we all experience some nesting instincts when pregnant
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This year I gave birth to my first Lenten baby. That is to say, I gave birth to a baby in the season of Lent. My others were born in Ordinary Time and Advent. Reflecting one night, during my hospital stay, on the beauty of bringing new life into the world, in spite of
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You may be wondering why on earth Young Catholic Mums would be reviewing this movie?? Let me tell you. Recently my husband and I watched this documentary. It was a weeknight, we felt like watching something – there was NOTHING but trash on TV (as usual right?) and my husband wanted to watch it,
FRONING: Fittest Man In History ~ Movie Review Read More »
I have been meaning to write this review for a while now, seeing as I saw this movie about a year ago! Anyway here I am, as it needs to be written! And shared. This was one of those movies that, I’ll be honest, I had low expectations for. It popped up on my
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EXPECTATIONS EXPECTATIONS EXPECTATIONS!! How many times have we let our expectations get the better of us?? The problem is, you may not even realise you are doing it. I had an interesting realisation this past weekend about expectations. I noticed I tend to fight more with my husband on the weekend, while week days
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I recently went to a Confirmation for a friend’s child and decided to make the card. I thought this would be a great opportunity to tie in her Confirmation Saint and also give her a keep-sake including the 7 seven gifts of the Holy Spirit that she can reflect on in years to come.
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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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