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British study finds marriage and children increase happiness
I try to tell people this, but they don't always listen to me!
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The study also concluded that the more children a married couple has, the greater the life satisfaction, especially for women.
Faith & Family Live! : Does Having More Kids Mean More Happiness?
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For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household. Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living as a couple, or single, having never been married.
Seduced by stories of stars giving birth later, and IVF myths, career-obsessed Lucy believed children and love could wait | Mail Online
This is really a sad story, but one I hope younger women will read. A few years ago I did read a 20-something blogger who was very happy to think that she could put off her childbearing until whenever it suited her! She's about in her mid 20s now. I hope she gets a chance to read this.
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Then I see a mother with her child and the realisation hits me, as if for the first time - that's never going to be me. If someone had told my 25-year-old self that I would end up here - aged 45, newly married and, sadly for us both, without a hope of ever getting pregnant - I wouldn't have believed them.
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It would have seemed incredible that love would take so long to find me; that becoming a mother would ever matter so much; or that my fertility - a gift that, at the time, seemed more like an inconvenience - would plummet far beyond the point at which doctors could work their magic.
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Catholic Bibliophagist
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" How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness."
--G.K. Chesterton, speaking about motherhood in What's Wrong With the World?
Castle of the Immaculate: Should I continue to have children despite special needs?
A refreshing view of a mom of many with special needs children who is lovingly open to more, via adoption or birth.
Faith & Family Live! - The daily blog of Catholic living
There are lots of other Christian magazines on line, but this one is specifically Catholic in feel and ideology.
A Catholic Mom in Hawaii: The Sacrament of Marriage
A wonderful quote from Francis Xavier Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan courtesy of Esther at Catholic Mom in Hawaii
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To love your spouse is to act according to the will of God. When you realize this, you will understand that you can fulfill your vocation in the most ordinary circumstances of your life by perceiving God's call even in the most trifling sanctify. This is a revelation that will revolutionize your whole life.
The love between husband and wife is an image of the love of Christ for the Church (cf. Eph 5:31-32). In this mystery you will discover dignity, strength, and unity. The love that exists between a husband and wife is an extension of God's love. How uplifting and supportive is this love of the partners!
God has given you a loving spouse and beautiful children to help each other to become holy. What have you done with this gift?
Starry Sky Ranch: On Domesticity
A fine essay on the truth behind motherhood and household "drudgery."
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My dear friend Jen often tells of hearing Elizabeth Elliot on the radio when she was home with her firstborn, having left a nursing career to be a homemaker. Surrounded by those who would have her believe she was wasting her potential she clung to Elizabeth Elliot's assertion that if God has blessed you with children and a husband you need not fret over your 'calling' any longer. You can stop of musing over what your contribution to the world ought to be. It is right there before your eyes. All that is not to say that everyone can readily accept that what is before their eyes is as potentially as monumental as the 'vocation over the hill'.
Mrs. Elliot feels this is be
CaringBridge.org - francescafrisone
Frankie's mom reminds us what Mother's Day is really all about. It is our children that make us Moms! Thank God for every second we have with them!
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This is for the mother....
Who knows that it's a treasure....
To have a child...love a child...
Their is no greater pleasure.
For runny eggs and blackened toast....
Arranged upon a tray....
With a bunch of wilted dandelions...
"Mom does it taste okay"?
For every busy restauraunt...
And every crowded mall....
The words...."I love you mama" are...
The greatest gift of all.
Ani DiFranco on 'Club Sacrifice' and her homebirth : Celebrity Baby Blog
A powerful, frank and too assessment of birth and how the power of birth has been ripped from women in this country. A very graphic assessment
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Being a mom seems to have changed the way the world sees me more than the other way around. Being pregnant really shifts your relationship to society, and then walking around with a baby shifts it again.
I love the feeling that I get from other parents — women in particular — of being a part of the club. Club Sacrifice, you might call it. It’s cool to have camaraderie, warmth, and openness with strangers. I wish that dynamic was more prevalent in general, but I am grateful to have it now.
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I was in labor for 43 hours. Pushed for five hours. It was brutal and
scary and prolonged, and if I was in a hospital, they would have
definitely cut the baby out of me. I thank the goddesses that I was at
home with patient midwives who knew how to go the distance. The memory
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10 Tips to Be A Better Listener | PersonaDev
(1)Be Legitimately Interested:As mentioned above, be interested. Drop whatever you were doing and focus. Stop focusing on the email you were writing or the article you were reading and reallylisten. Put yourself in the speaker’s place and make his
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(1) Be Legitimately Interested: As mentioned above, be interested. Drop whatever you were doing and focus. Stop focusing on the email you were writing or the article you were reading and really listen. Put yourself in the speaker’s place and make his or her problems your own. The speaker will consciously or subconsciously pick up on this and you will learn more from the conversation. However, if you are in the middle of something just a little too important to drop…
(2) Be Honest About Your Time: If you really are in the middle of something important, tell the speaker. Apologize and plan for another meeting where you can ensure your full attention and focus. This will let the speaker know that you appreciate their coming to you and you want to give them your full concentration. It’s much better than lending half-an-ear and not listening well.
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(3) Accept the Speaker’s Point-Of-View: At least until he or she is done speaking. Some of us have the desire to get our point across and a word in for every sentence spoken.
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History
Nonetheless, the uncertainty and apprehension were evident. It further ingrained my desire to help others. I pray that my role will take more focus as the year unfolds.
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As I sat in the surgery waiting room with other parents, I flashed back to the hours of waiting when Francesca was in surgery. Although none of them were having open hearts
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Nonetheless, the uncertainty and apprehension were evident. It further ingrained my desire to help others. I pray that my role will take more focus as the year unfolds.
My Domestic Church: The Domestic Monastary
life had been so busy raising a family that shescarcely ever had aprivate minute for herself, was more contemplative than he was.
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life had been so busy raising a family that she scarcely ever had a
private minute for herself, was more contemplative than he was. -
t. The lesson was rather that there was
something wonderfully right about what his mother was doing all these
years as she lived the interrupted life amid the noise and incessant
demands of small children. He had been in a monastery, but so had
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