My recent column as published in The Catholic Weekly. We bought a second-hand dining setting last week, it’s very modern, fairly new, and cheaper than any we could have bought from the shops. It got me thinking about how much we recycle, reuse, and reduce. We don’t go to any great effort or really think…
Category: Pitter Patter
The benefit of built-in weekly family time
My column from last week’s Catholic Weekly. “I’ve written my wish list for Santa,” one of my daughters informed me while we drove to school one day last week. It took me a second to remember that this was something they did towards the end of the year. I think it was someone’s classroom activity one…
Surviving taking young children to Mass
My column published in last week’s Catholic Weekly. Everyone loves the idea of parents coming to Mass with their young children, but not everyone always enjoys having young children there, including the parents themselves. I’ve been to Masses where I’ve broken out in a sweat from trying to keep the children relatively still and…
Random (mostly happy) thoughts from the trenches of family life with young children
I love some of the ideas people gave me for my 40 things for 40 years challenge. Learn to play the ukulele and go busking with it is my favourite! Thanks Annemarie! I’m really taken with this idea of doing 40 new or challenging things this year while I’m 39. Who knows how much time any…
Marilyn Rodrigues 