My big girl is turning 10, which means I’ve been a mum for 10 years and I can’t believe it’s been that long when I often feel I don’t know anything and I’m just winging it by instinct. If I were to sum up in one word how I feel about my eldest daughter it…
How to be happy when life feels like an endurance test
Mother Teresa of Calcutta said that God loves a cheerful giver. And I give myself over and over each day with these little ones given to me, but often not cheerfully. How am I to do it? Get through each day simply and cheerfully like she did? Yes she prayed, yes she was at daily Mass, but…
I’m on a podcast!
I was invited not long ago to record a two-minute segment to be aired each fortnight on The Journey, a one-hour Catholic podcast which is created by the Wollongong Diocese. My segment is called The Peaceful Parent, and I can’t tell people the title without laughing, especially if they know me, because I’m not altogether that…
Missing car keys and the joy of stress
So I was leaving from my course at a small college the other day, just before I had to pick up my toddler from his babysitter, drive 40 minutes across the city to collect my four other children from school and preschool, then head home to host a meeting at my house. You know, the…
Marilyn Rodrigues 