A few years ago I attended a function launching the Australia Day Nominations for the following year in my hometown. Past recipients of the Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year are invited to attend, and a couple of past or present recipients speak briefly about their experiences or reflections on […]
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Congratulations you’re a mum, and if the physical symptoms we outlined in postpartum pests weren’t enough for you, here are some more postpartum red flags that you should never ignore: You can’t get out of bed in the morning – not in a fatigue kind of way, but in a ‘I just don’t feel
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When I originally wrote this article my husband and I were expecting our third child, due in December. Like most expectant parents we were excited, and a little anxious, but waited in eager anticipation to meet the newest addition to our family. But to some people, we’d already had enough children, and we’re being selfish
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I have a theory about parenthood that I want to share with you. I firmly believe that becoming a parents makes you either predominantly selfless or selfish. Now that doesn’t mean that a selfless parent doesn’t have selfish moments and vice versa, but that for the most part you’re either thinking of others or
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It is a truth universally acknowledged by wives all over the world that husbands often get it wrong. And the truth is, that’s ok. Women and men might be equal but they are complimentary; they have different modes of thinking, doing and interacting. We get into trouble, as wives, when we expect our husbands
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Motherhood is challenging. Yes, it can be a wonderful experience but let’s face it, there are moments where we want to tear out our hair or through our hands up in desperation. Domestic life is relentless, our children are demanding, and the washing pile never completely disappears. Our children can play happily one minute
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I went to dinner with some girlfriends a few weeks ago, and during the drive home one of them said to me, “Pray about what you want, Joy. I think you already know what you want, but you just need to take the steps to get there. Pray, and ask God to lead you and
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There are days when my mind races ahead of me. Instead of being productive, I rush around and racing through activities just make me exasperated. Instead of organizing my thoughts onto a ‘to-do’ list, I feel a thousand things rushing through my head. Cook dinner, feed the baby, catch up with that friend. Feeling as
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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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When I first heard of marriage being a ‘vocation’, this idea struck me as being a little foreign. When I hear the term vocation, words such as ‘priest’, ‘nun’ or ‘the religious’ come to mind. Pope John Paul II referred to St Josemaria Escriva as the patron saint of ‘ordinary life’. It was St
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