Here’s a brief thought for today…

"I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the United States

How happy do you choose to be today?

I had an absolutely wonderful Mother’s Day last Sunday. After being treated to the Sunday paper and a lazy breakfast in bed of coffee, scrambled egg, fried egg on toast, bacon and pancakes - and struggling to eat it all! - I watched my present, a DVD, with my ‘baby’ before heading off to visit my Mum for the afternoon. What a glorious, laid-back day it was.

Then on Tuesday I got to enjoy the other ...

I received this poem in an email from a dear friend of mine recently and just had to share it with as many other Mums as possible. I think it’s so apt.

Being a Mother…

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you’ve have your baby; that somebody doesn’t know that once you’re a mother, ‘normal’ is history.

Somebody said that you learn how to be a mother by instinct; that somebody never ...

My son was over the moon today. One of his heroes, Luke Power from the Brisbane Lions AFL team, came to Master J’s school and spoke on assembly. Master J was full of stories to share with me about his hero (and how happy his Computer Tech teacher was today because he, too, is a huge fan of Luke Power and the rest of the Lions ).

The most powerful thing that Master J ...