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The Pilot's Wife: November 2013
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Saturday, November 30, 2013. Heidi’s Birth Part Two. View from the birthing suite:. Chad’s calm demeanour as things get more intense and he takes the only free ‘seat’ in the bathroom to be with me. 8220;Hayley, are you starting to push? 8221; Donna, the midwife, asked me. I shrugged, and after the contraction, said, “I don’t know if I’m experimenting, or just high, or pushing.”. It was all so civilised when I left! After they̵...
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The Pilot's Wife: The best of times, the worst of times
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Monday, September 1, 2014. The best of times, the worst of times. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This about sums up my life with four children. Deliciously chaotic, overwhelmingly muddled love. The rest of the morning is spent with playgroup or groceries, a catch up with friends, or sweeping up on the rubble collecting on the floors at home, hanging the daily washing (I swear my elderly neighbour must think i...
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The Pilot's Wife: My Seven Year Old
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Friday, July 18, 2014. My Seven Year Old. 8220;Give me the child for the first seven years and I care not who has him thereafter.” The Jesuits. I love this quote. Those first seven years are recognised as being so important in moulding the character of the child, that few things can change the essential core of the person that child will become after seven. Sure, it’s a generalisation, but I love it still. You’re a great big...
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The Pilot's Wife: May 2013
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. O’Connor Outback Adventure 2013. Here’s Zara having her first hit of tennis for “T”. She surprised me and hit every single ball that was thrown her way. Since she’s the ‘battler’ of her swimming class, we’ve always joked that “She ain’t no olympic athelete”! Maybe she just hadn’t hit her swing yet…! It was a stretch to get there. But how could I have said no when her little face looked like this? It was a ...
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The Pilot's Wife: March 2013
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Friday, March 22, 2013. Household commentary about the new baby. The doctor sent me for another ultrasound today. No big deal, something about blood flow through my arteries, turned out to be nothing. But, I got another glimpse at our little one. And oh, what a glimpse it was. There’s a real live baby in there, people. Despite the cuteness evident above, there are varying views about the gender of this baby in our house. It’...
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The Pilot's Wife: February 2014
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Sunday, February 2, 2014. Oh yeah, Christmas. I’m soooo far behind in every area of my life right now, it’s kind of fitting it’s taken me over a month to post about Christmas. But I want the memories recorded, so you’re just going to have to grin and bear it. Heidi didn’t quite get the whole fuss… all she knew was that she was wearing some fancy Christmas onesie. Pukah at work in the kitchen. And some beautiful new clothes. Sophie...
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The Pilot's Wife: September 2013
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Saturday, September 21, 2013. Heidi was four weeks old the last day Chad had at home. Today, I picked Mia up from school and Zara up from pre-school for the last time this term and exhaled. We’ve survived. In Chad’s absence, we have managed a few fun activities too…. Sophie wasn’t too sure about the ‘yuck… mess! But in the end, her fascination won over. And really, who couldn’t resist a bit of this kind of fun? A picnic on our bac...
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The Pilot's Wife: May 2014
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Saturday, May 24, 2014. Here’s a reality check. My baby is ten and a half months old. Uh-huh. Ten and a half months, and I’ve barely recorded her on my blog. You know how the guilt stings me when I think like that? And all the moments I’ve been busy living this year, that I’ve failed to record? And then I wonder why I need to record them? Surely the girls will remember with photos alone,. Will remember with photos alone? My wanna-...
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The Pilot's Wife: January 2014
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Capturing the essence of a life's work - the call to be a wife and mother. Thursday, January 30, 2014. I’ve been absent from blogging for 42 days? 8216;Fraid so. We’ve just been so, so busy these holidays, and the girls have had such a fun time conquering their bucket list, and as aforementioned, we’ve been so *tired* that I just haven’t found a moment to sit down and record a lot of anything. We waved them off, while I stayed back at Mammee and Pukah’s place with the little two. Whenever I see them go o...
