“All a person’s ways seem pure to them,
But motives are weighed by the LORD”.
Proverbs 16:2
Motives
Staying at home: Week 5 and 6
Before I get to our past two weeks…
..Yay for social restrictions easing in NSW, Australia as of tomorrow! Feeling very grateful….
Tumultuous, fun, creative and treasured – this pretty well sums up my past two weeks.
Continue reading Staying at home: Week 5 and 6Staying at home: week 4
This week has been “school holidays” at home. Not much has happened round here and the week is, I think, best captured by three words.
Continue reading Staying at home: week 4Surrender
12 April 2020
The concept of surrender first captivated my attention ten years ago during a birthing class.
Continue reading SurrenderAgency
26th March 2020
I feel like I should be more ok with the loss of agency that this virus is bringing into our lives. But I’m not.
Continue reading AgencyStaying at home: week 3
School term is done! The relief is real.
The week was a bit of a blur – ups and downs as usual, very busy, still exhausting. But tiny buds of green as we all appear to be beginning to recover from the shock of all the changes.
Continue reading Staying at home: week 3Rain
2nd April 2020
Lying down on my bed while the littlest has a nap and the older two watch some afternoon ABC kids I listen to the rain falling gently on our roof.
Continue reading RainStaying at home: week 2
Hello! How are you all going out there? I trust that you are managing day to day to adjust to your variation of “the new normal”!
For us, overall, I’d say this week was a slight improvement on last week. Not a huge achievement as last week was pretty chaotic! For most of the week It seemed as though at least one member of the household was crying, tantrum-ing or silently cursing. Thankfully, there were definitely more moments of calm this week.
I thought I’d go with a summary of things that worked for us this week and things that didn’t.
Continue reading Staying at home: week 2The slowest tsunami
26th March 2020
We all know there is a crisis on our doorstep.
Well, actually it has already invited itself in and it intends to wreck havoc with all of us, in one way or another…
Continue reading The slowest tsunamiStaying at home: week 1
28th March 2020
On Tuesday we pulled our two eldest out of school. My husbands bible college put a pause on lectures and classes while they scramble to organise online lectures for next week. And we commenced our social isolation, along with most of the country, trying to stay at home as much as possible – the five of us – in our two bedroom home.
So how did it go?
Continue reading Staying at home: week 1