A lesson in written self-expression from a five-year-old

The thing about not posting regularly is that now there’s too much to catch up on! Since my last written-for-the-blog post about the two weeks I spent decluttering the house what have I done apart from the usual run-around? Hosted weekly catechesis group sessions for my daughter and some other children receiving their First Holy…

Expectations and idols

From a recent Catholic Weekly column: Lately I’ve been trying to spend a bit of effort on identifying and doing something about some of my sources of stress. There is no shortage of stressors in life are there? A certain amount of stress is useful and gets us out of bed and into the tasks…

Decluttering tips – with photos!

The Internet probably doesn’t need more of this sort of thing, but I wrote about my decluttering frenzy a couple of weeks ago and it just felt good to get rid of about three car boot-fulls of stuff that I must remember to do it again whenever that ‘overwhelmed’ feeling starts creeping back. I just can’t even look…

I was going crazy so I tidied up

From a recent column in The Catholic Weekly: Guess what I’ve been doing since last week? Thanks to moving house just over a year ago and having a pretty tight budget since then we don’t have huge amounts of stuff, but we still had enough that we didn’t use mixed in with things we did…