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Church puts family front and centre
Catholics have been invited to share the experiences and challenges of modern family life, with their responses expected to address same-sex marriage, divorce and openness...
My daughter told me ‘God is just pretend’
I made a phone call the other day and the person I spoke to had really needed to talk to someone, so much so...
Reorganising life: tips from a mother of five
Lately I have been quite consumed with reorganising the way we do things at home, little by little, in order to create a less...
Aiming for inspired busyness
In the past few weeks I’ve been doing an hour-by-hour audit of my time and the way I spend it. It’s an enlightening thing...
A first-world problem is still a problem
I spent this morning putting some order into our paperwork at home.
I now have a logically arranged bookshelf which hopefully will mean that the...
Contentment to resentment and back again: life as a stay-at-home mum
Last Monday morning I stripped the beds, put out my first load of washing and loaded the second. I had a full day planned...
More than a few good men this Father’s Day
I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have a good dad and father-in-law, and be married to a good dad as well.
One...
Admitting that I’m still waiting for a happy ending
Babies are not really for the faint-hearted are they?
I’ve been thinking this as I rock Isaac to sleep for his morning nap, knowing he...
Quiet confidence in God
Last week we celebrated Naomi’s and Hannah’s Confirmation.
Just before leaving home for the church I lined the children up for a photo in their...
Living life on a stopwatch
I learnt today that it takes me around 15 minutes to make myself a cup of peppermint tea and drink it.
The stopwatch on my...
When nature puts on a show
Nature put on quite a show last Sunday evening. We were driving home from somewhere and the heavens were alight.
The cloudscape looked like endless...
Finding strength in weakness
We have four older people who are especially on our minds and in our prayers at the moment because they are either in hospital...
