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Beach joy

It was the perfect beach afternoon.  There was a cool breeze coming off the cold sea, mixed with the warm winds from the sand and mountains behind us.  The beach…
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The empty cup

Gosh, there is just so much heaviness around us at the moment, in the world and in our beautiful country.  This inevitably spills over into our homes and it’s often the…
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Never let them see you run

It was 2:30pm.  I found them in the TV lounge.  Again.  For the third time today, after telling them about 300 times that there was to be no more TV…
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Changing lanes

Two weeks into maternity leave – away from the office, offline from clients and deliverables.  Since my last Teams call, we’ve welcomed a new little human to our tribe.  A human that…
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Is there still good?

Is there still good in this world when around me there are young families going through divorce, when a young father died of cancer and a mother of four died…
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Ten minutes

Mom guilt is a real life thing and I feel like, for me, it’s got worse over the past year since our first lockdown and working from home has become…
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Be a beginner

Last week my son started reading.  Actual words.  I had one of those mom moments when I thought ‘how can we be here already?!’ as I listened to them learning…
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Planting what matters

For so long I’ve dreamed of having a herb and veggie garden.  The kind like you see in the movies.  The kind that I can walk out my kitchen door…
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Same, same but different

Have you gone through something you’ve gone through before, but it’s different somehow?  Like when you order your favourite pizza toppings in a different restaurant and although the ingredients are…
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Yes to this, no to that

As I’ve done for the past few years, I’ve spent the past few weeks praying and thinking about my word of the year for 2021.  Having a word for the…
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