little chickens.

Today some of our neighbours gave us 4 baby chickens and their mother. The chickens are really cute. We will try and get some photo's tomorrow and get them on the blog. I am so excited that we are going to have our own fresh eggs.

Great Weekend.

This weekend Brigette received her first Holy Comunion. It was a lovely weekend. We had my mother in law, father in law, mother and Brigette's Godparents come up and stay with us.

It was a lovely weekend. We had the mass on Saturday night and had a luncheon on Sunday with all our visitors and friends from the parish too. It was a lovely weekend. The photos didn't turn out very well but I have posted one of Brigette with the other First communion children and our parish priest. Hopefully I will have another one to post later in the week.

Brigette is the girl in the pink and white dress for all those that don't know her.

View From The Pews: Pointers for Life

View From The Pews: Pointers for Life

great points for living your daily life. Thanks Ginny for this post.

A week to go.

Next Saturday night Brigette will receive her first Eucharist with other children from her class.

Please pray for all these children.

It will be a very nice weekend. My mother and Steve's parents are coming up. We will also have Brigette's Godparents coming to stay so we will have a full house (which should be warm too with all those people Marie).

I will be sure to post some pictures the week after.

Congratulations Catholic Ponderer

Welcome to the family.

For those of you that don't know, yesterday Joakim was received into full communion with the church. Thanks for sharing your faith journey with us and I pray that God will bless you abundantly in the future. Catholic Ponderer

Go to his link to congratulate him and welcome him into our Catholic Family.

Yesterday.

Was the first day of my new mothers rule. I was late getting to school to pick the children up because I was looking at different Catholic blogs. (oops).

Catholic Blog Directory

I came across this yesterday and added this coffee shop.

Check out all the Catholic blogs or add your own at: Catholic Blog Directory

Patron Saint for a year

Seminarian Matthew Has a post about a patron saint for the year. Even though it is half way through the year I have asked him to send me my saint. Go and check out his post and grab yourself a saint for the year. (or at least for the rest of the year).

Many great blessings to peach.

I nearly forgot. My on line friend peach (Leslie) was getting married this weekend. By now she and Joe would be husband and wife.

So many blessings to you and Joe peach.

Check out her blog This here blog

long weekend

Today we have a public holiday to celebrate the queens birthday. It is nice to have an extra day of. I have been trying to limit my time on line and get the house a bit more organised for my new mothers rule which will be starting this week.

My big fall down with my rule is spending too much time on computer and not been able to give myself enough prayer time and having to do jobs quickly so they tend to not to be done to the best of my ability. So I am starting anew and trying to turn over a new leaf.

I am taking a week of dcf too while I get things more organised. I realized on Saturday that one particular thread was totally consuming me. When I wasn't online I was thinking about it and what I had written. I was also thinking about what others had written. A lot of the comments in this thread upset me and I was surprised at some peoples responses. This had an affect on my interaction with the family. I realized that I just had to let it all go and forget about the whole thread. The only way for me to do this is to stay away for a little while and not go back to the thread.

I realize that these disagreements are never one pesons fault so I want to take this oppotunity to apologize to any people that I hurt with any of my comments in the thread.

God bless
Therese

Just saying Hi.

So I am in a mood for writing. (Well actually I am just sick of housework so wanted to do something different) but I cannot think of anything to blog about. LIfe is just plodding along. We are preparing for Brigette's First communion and having visitors. Steve's parents and my mother is coming to stay for the weekend and so are Brigette's Godparents with their youngest child. I am also getting a new mothers rule of life routine worked out because Tom's insulin regime is about to change and he will be needing injections every lunch time and I will have to go and give them to him which will mean a trip to school every lunch time.

This weekend is a long weekend. We will have Monday of to celebrate the Queens birthday. I am going to take the girls out for a girls day in Whyalla. We will do some shopping and have lunch on the Saturday.

I have a couple of photos to share too. Sam borrowed a mask from a friend of his to take on his school camp and do a play. The children all had fun having photos taken with it on. Here is Tom and Sam with it on.

And here is Christopher. Can you see the family resemblence? Three out of four boys all have read eyes and purple hair lol.

Anyway for a girl that cannot think of anything to say I seem to have got a fairly long post. So HI and bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The end of a week.

It is the first Friday today. We went to Mass. I am going to try and remember to go on the first Friday for the next nine months and do a special novena for our family.

Today we also had some good news. Our third son Tom is an insulin dependent diabetic and he is going onto a waiting list to get an insulin pump. The diabetes educator that spoke with me about the posibility of Tom getting one of these has one himself and he says he wears his pancreas on his belt. An insulin pump means that Tom will receive his insulin more like a person that doesn't have diabetes. This will mean that we won't have to be as strict about eating at exactly the right times and the amount he will have to eat. He should get his pump around November. Between now and then we are also going to change his regime so that it is similar to the regime he will be on when he goes on the pump.

meme from Joakim.

As mentioned I have been tagged by my good friend Joakim to write about

1. Three non fiction books everyone should read.


2. Three fiction books everyone should read


3. three authors everyone should read


4. three books no one should read.

So here they are.

Three non fiction books everyone should read.

1. The Bible. As one of the saints said: To be ignorant of the Scriptures is to be ignorant of Christ.


2. Life Giving Love. Maybe not everyone should read this but I think every women that is either married or preparing to get married should.


3. Story of a Soul. This book was so good I read it in a couple of days. I then made myself read it again more slowly and really pray through it. It really changed the way I looked at suffering and helped me to look at life with an eternal perspective.

Three Fiction books everyone should read.

1. The big Four by Agatha Christie. I am a real mystery buff. I love mystery stories and movies. This book though stands out as one of the best I have ever read by Agatha Christie.


2. The Trixie Belden series. Ok not a single book but a great series. This series is the first series I ever read and it was also a turning point for me as far as reading was concerned. I wasn't really interseted in reading before I read these. I remember saying to my younger sister what will we read when we have read all the Trixie Belden books and being a sister she said well you know Trixie Belden books are not the only books in the world. She was right but at that stage I wasn't interested in reading other books.


3. Graham Crackers, Galoshes and God by Bernadette McCarver Snyder. This book may not be considered non fiction. Bernadettes tells little stories from her life and then finishes of with a little prayer. It was a quick read and really uplifting.

Three Authors everyone should read.

1. Agatha Christie. One of the greatest authors imo.


2. Mary Higgins Clark. I really enjoy her books too although once you have read a few you can usually pick who is the villian.


3. Wilbur Smith. I have enjoyed every book I have read of his.

Three books no one should read.

1. The Viginia Andrew's Flower's in the Attic series. I am ashamed to admit I enjoyed this series when I first read it. But since my reversion back to Catholicism I can see that many things that are wrong are potrayed as good.
2. The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Not really bad but I thought it was way overrated. I made myself read the series thinking it must get better but never did. I think I read all four books. The last book I gave up about three quarters of the way through.
3. I cannot think of a third book that no one can read. But you see if there is a book that no one should read, I don't usually finish it so I cannot add anything else to this meme.
   
   So now I tag viking and Racheal. Looking forward to seeing your three.

meme from lowdenclear.

my 10 favourite movies:

1. The sound of Music
2. A wonderful life.
3. Fidler on the roof.
4. Barbie's the Princess and the Pauper (I really love the music in this).
5. Beaches
6. My big fat greek wedding.
7. shrek
8. Toy story one and two.
9. crocodile dundee
10. monsters inc.

21 words to describe myself.

1. Catholic
2. Mother
3. Wife
4. Daughter
5. sister
6. friend
7. House manager
8. financial manager
9. sewer
10. knitter
11. cook
12. chaeuffeur
13. friendly
14. cheerful
15. procrastinator
16. dishwasher
17. judge
18. feminine
19. adventurous
20. helper
21. try anything.

So I now tag Judy and Ellie to tell us your 10 favourite movies and 21 words to describe yourselves.

I just discovered that Mrs. E has already tagged Judy and Ellie so I will now tag Christine and Dawn to tell us about theirselves.

Tagged Twice.

A huge shock emoticon would go here if they had them on blogger. I have been tagged by both lowdenclear and Joakim to write about my 10 favourite movies and 21 words to describe myself and by Joakim to write about three fiction and non fiction books everyone should read, three author's everyone should read and three books that no one should read. Since it is now 11 pm at night and I have had a long day though I am going to leave you all in suspence. I will write my responses tomorrow, time permitting.

Double party, double fun.

Today we headed down to the YMCA to celebrate Amelia's and Brigette's 6th and 10th birthday respectivly. I spent most of the day cooking for the party and then we went over there. They had about 17 guests between the two of them and it was lots of fun.

Amelia and her friends got up on the seats at one stage and sang and did the actions to Sk8er boi with a little help from Madeline.

The big hit for all the children though was swinging on the hanging rings. Here is Tom in action. For the last 15 minutes of the party the children all lined up along the hanging rings and took it in turns to be pushed by Sam. When Sam had pushed them really high everyone started chanting jump jump jump jump and the person would jump down onto the mat under them. Happy Birthday girls. I hope you both had a fun day.

no internet.

Our isp had a problem. It started last Saturday and went until today. We are finally back up and running tonight. I never realized how much I relied on the internet for my everyday needs. I am always looking at recipes, paying bills and chatting with friends at dcf. It is such a big part of my life now. I hope though now that I will have more apreciation for the net and the way it helps us in this modern world.

From Lowdenclears blog.

I really liked this. Lowdenclear wrote it and I wanted to share it. I need to remind myself often that God is in control.

Strong and powerful, yet able to comfort
And hold tenderly. The same hands that
Created the tiny daisies and soaring eagles
Are also able to carry the weight of the world.

The one who has already planned our road ahead
Doesn't expect us to travel on our own.
On the contrary, our lives are in His hands.
Only He is in control of our destiny.

"We place our destiny in the hands of the LORD, not in the hands of men, because His mercy is as great as His majesty." (Sirach 2:18)

zucchini slice.

I made this tonight for tea. It was a big hit with all the children. They all wanted seconds. I would not have had enough if I hadn't doubled the recipe. So for those interested I found this recipe at another blog. I will be adding the website to my favourites so be sure to visit their site. It is called exclusively foods. They have lots of main meal dishes and sweet recipes too.

550g zucchini
1 medium onion,
finely chopped130g bacon (after fat and rind has been removed)
75g (1 cup, lightly packed) grated tasty (cheddar) cheese112g
(3/4 cup) self-raising flour
Salt & pepper
4 large eggs (we use eggs with a minimum weight of 59g)
83ml (1/3 cup) oil

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (160 degrees fan forced). Line an 18cm x 28cm baking dish or slice tin with baking paper.Finely chop bacon. Place onion and bacon in a heavy-based pan over medium heat.

Fry for about six minutes, stirring occasionally, until onion has softened but not browned. Set aside to cool.

Wash zucchini, remove ends and finely grate. Squeeze handfuls of grated zucchini over sink to remove excess liquid (this prevents the slice from being too wet).

Combine grated zucchini, cooled onion and bacon mixture, cheese, flour, salt and pepper in a large bowl.

Use a fork to beat eggs and oil together in a small bowl. Add egg and oil mixture to other ingredients and stir to combine.

Pour mixture into baking dish and spread evenly.

Bake for about 45 minutes, or until slice is golden brown and firm to the touch.

Store slice in the refrigerator. Suitable to reheat.

Family Rosary.

We prayed the Rosary as a family tonight. Christopher fell asleep in my lap. It is nice to have a quiet house for a change. Usually he is still up at this time running around. I think we will pray the rosary more as a family.