I asked my husband over dinner, what is the difference between you and me? As in between men and women? He quite readily came up with a list! He said that men are… More visual More selfish Stronger They don’t like to share their feelings They communicate via doing things (side by side not face to […]
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A new year holds lots of promise for us. A new beginning, a fresh start, it beckons us to make adjustments in our lives, based on the previous year. New years resolutions are made, and often, swiftly broken. I had given little thought to new years resolutions and was caught, somewhat off guard, by
We continue our series on fashion. To recap Part One click here. Fashion and the Church During all of these changes in fashion, the Church has spoken out against immodesty and in defence of purity, but on mostly deaf ears. Sure, at one point Catholic countries banned the bikini, but that solidarity did
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We are entering interesting times. Influential women such as Helen Mirren, Dolly Parton, Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop are the faces of a wave of childless women. These are successful, intelligent women who made a decision not to have children. They are not alone. There are many successful career women in their late forties
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As we near the advent of warmer weather I can’t help but inwardly groan as I consider that soon we will see hoards of lemmings following the fashion fads, wearing barely-there clothing that defies the definition of clothing, let alone modesty. And so I began thinking, how did we get to the point where
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My husband and I went away for the weekend recently. We’d basically discovered that over our eight years of marriage, we really hadn’t done this since we’d started our family. Our children had had sleepovers before at grandparent’s houses, but we’d always stayed home and caught up on housework and hubby had
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Part 4: Death of the old feminist conclusion Radical feminists would have us believe that there is no place for the family in a truly free society. They would be wrong. Indeed, the family is the core institution that ensures social, economic and political stability as well as ensuring human rights are not neglected. World
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
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You might recall that I recently wrote about the fickleness of fertility recently in this post where I discussed my anovulatory cycles and a family history of early menopause. I had begun to wonder if my family was complete. But God has had other plans. My husband and I are now expecting our fifth
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It is said that a sufficient amount of sleep is essential for one to operate. For many Mums though isn’t it true that we have to operate and function just the same regardless of how many hours of sleep we got last night? Whether you are feeding bub, changing wet bed sheets or singing a
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