Hearts for Home

My fellow Aussie mum, Gae, from Cherished Hearts at Home has started this beautiful initiative for centering our motherly hearts for home, this is what Gae has to say:

"In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

I am praying that a spirit of gentleness, generosity in thoughts and time along with loveliness and grace would lead us to be all that God wants us to be.

I pray also that each person involved in 'Hearts for Home' would also pray for any others involved as well."

My List for this week is:

1. To pray intentionally for the things in my household and home that I want to improve on, reminding myself our best and lasting changes have always come with fervent, consistant prayers for it.

2. To re-focus on the beauty of a well ordered household.

3. To keep working at thinking before speaking, to break the habit of responding to quickly, to carelessly. "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." Matthew 12:36

4. To develop and work upon balance in all things.

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Hearts for Home

My fellow Aussie mum, Gae, from Cherished Hearts at Home has started this beautiful initiative for centering our motherly hearts for home, this is what Gae has to say:

"In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

I am praying that a spirit of gentleness, generosity in thoughts and time along with loveliness and grace would lead us to be all that God wants us to be.

I pray also that each person involved in 'Hearts for Home' would also pray for any others involved as well."

My List for this week is:

1. To reflect on the life of The Cure of Ars and particularly this beautiful quote of his in regard to my own motherhood: "I owe a debt to my mother, virtues go easily from mothers into the hearts of their children, who willingly do what they see being done."

2. To re-focus on the beauty of a well ordered household.

3. To keep working at thinking before speaking, to break the habit of responding to quickly, to carelessly. "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." Matthew 12:36

4. To work at being consistant in the important things that matter.

Hearts for Home

My fellow Aussie mum, Gae, from Cherished Hearts at Home has started this beautiful initiative for centering our motherly hearts for home, this is what Gae has to say:

"In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

I am praying that a spirit of gentleness, generosity in thoughts and time along with loveliness and grace would lead us to be all that God wants us to be.

I pray also that each person involved in 'Hearts for Home' would also pray for any others involved as well."

My List for this week is:

1. To focus on the child who needs my extra love and attention, my wisdom and understanding.

2. Continue to 'spring clean' in winter! Working on blinds and curtains, washing, cleaning and mending, giving a lovely fresh look to the main rooms.

3. With school holidays just finished, routine has suffered of late, this needs to become my priority again, order and routine are a blessing, I need to remind myself of that.

4. I'm still pondering hospitality, but not just in being a good hostess, how to I project myself to people at all times? I'd like to think fairly well, but I want to spend time thinking in what ways I can improve because there is always room for improvement sometimes in ways that can surprise you.

Hearts for Home

My fellow Aussie mum, Gae, from Cherished Hearts at Home has started this beautiful initiative for centering our motherly hearts for home, this is what Gae has to say:

"In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

I am praying that a spirit of gentleness, generosity in thoughts and time along with loveliness and grace would lead us to be all that God wants us to be.

I pray also that each person involved in 'Hearts for Home' would also pray for any others involved as well."

My List for this week is:

1. To think before I speak...just think and make good choices from that.

2. To continue working on the home in creating the haven I love when I resume schooling next week.

3. To ponder the meaning of hospitality, thinking about my strengths and weaknesses and to dwell on the examples of wonderful hospitality I have met in my life.

4. To focus on each child this week with greater care, spending the right amount of time with each child when they need correction, when they need praise.

Hearts for Home

My fellow Aussie mum, Gae, from Cherished Hearts at Home has started this beautiful initiative for centering our motherly hearts for home, this is what Gae has to say:

"In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

I am praying that a spirit of gentleness, generosity in thoughts and time along with loveliness and grace would lead us to be all that God wants us to be.

I pray also that each person involved in 'Hearts for Home' would also pray for any others involved as well."

My List for this week is:

1. Improving with voice tone, heart gentleness! This is still my main goal to continue to improve and grow in.

2. Work on family routine at present since coming back from holidays.

3. Work on prayer routine since coming back from holidays.

4. Pray daily for God to reveal my hidden weaknesses so that I can properly acknowledge them and ask for the grace to overcome.

Hearts for Home

"In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

I am praying that a spirit of gentleness, generosity in thoughts and time along with loveliness and grace would lead us to be all that God wants us to be.

I pray also that each person involved in 'Hearts for Home' would also pray for any others involved as well. "

Last week went well, the only commitment that I didn't follow through the way I wanted to was spending time with the children in the garden. The first and main commitment of gentle tone, less frustration is a work in action, I have improved, I have a way to go, I will continue to work on it and take it to prayer for the grace I need.

1. To be patient in all things, talk with a gentle tone.

2. Pray for this grace daily and consistantly.

3. We are travelling all this week. I want to work on making the trip an enjoyable one for dh and the children. I want to stimulate the children's sense of wonder while seeing new scenes and places.

4. Be efficient with travelling, neat and tidy in the car and where we stay, make the effort to keep that order that makes everyone feel happy and contented.

Hearts for Home

This week's Hearts for Home list is:

1. Continue to keep check on my general impatience which in turn effects my voice tone and level. Ask for this grace in prayer each morning.

2. Being intermittent last week on my new prayer for each family member, I will endeavour to recite every day for each family member after the St Patrick's Breastplate, three Hail Mary's for the grace of a happy and holy death.

3. Enjoyed successfully drawing attention to each children the wonder of nature around them, I hope to continue that this week as well, particularly in our own garden.

4. Making an extra effort to bake homemade and healthy treats for the children's afternoon tea and to use that afternoon tea time to spend time engaging the children on some meaningful topic.

Gae has launched 'Hearts for Home'

I really looking forward to this.

Gae over at Cherished Hearts at Home has started a wonderful new weekly inititive for mothers called Hearts for Home.

Gae states:

"In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'."

This will be a blessing for me at present. With so much illness last year, with a few health challenges this year, I need to stop, think and focus. I need to collect my heart and the precious hearts of those around me in a way that cultivates love, gentleness and grace.

Please pop over to Gae's Announcing: Hearts for Home and read her full introduction and grab her lovely, little logo!

My commitment for the week to come will be:

1. To keep my voice gentle at the moments I'm tempted not to.

2. To continue working on charting the children's daily achievements in a positive way that encourages them to be diligent, hard working and giving.

3. To find a more positive, encouraging way to talk about a child's moment of weakness, with them.

4. To smile or show a face of love at the beginning of each conversation in the home.

5. To encourage some moment of wonder, daily, in the hearts of each of my children, particularly when outdoors.

6. Add a new prayer straight after my daily St Patrick's Breastplate prayer for each of my family members ~ three Hail Mary's for a happy and holy death, calling upon the intercession of Our Lady, St Joseph and St Anne.