Super mum of Mackay Kirsty Grigg has eight children, here's what her week is like

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27th Jan. 2018 7:01 AM

This Boxing Day I’m one of the many Aussies who will get up as usual and head off to work.

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26th Dec. 2013 3:12 PM

Queensland drivers could take a lesson or two from those in northern Scotland.

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18th Oct. 2013 6:10 AM

As I packed my suitcase to prepare for the journey back to Australia I started to think of the things I can't wait to have...

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17th Oct. 2013 9:10 AM

There is no-one who understands your kind of crazy than the crazies you grew up with.

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12th Sept. 2013 2:09 PM

Fad diets won’t work, starving myself won’t help and exercise won’t make a difference at all. What I need to do is make...

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05th Sept. 2013 2:09 PM

What happened to scammers in the good old days? They are not just Nigerian princes offering large sums of money...

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24th Aug. 2013 12:08 PM

THE dining room, one room that hadn’t needed attention during renovations, all of a sudden got a brand new Pro Hart...

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16th Aug. 2013 10:08 AM

SUPERMUM: I grew up going to the pinball arcade to play space invaders.

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02nd Aug. 2013 2:08 PM

It is not the police that come into my mind since Wanted started. It is the activities my friends and I used to get up to...

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23rd July 2013 2:07 PM

My son, thinks he is super organised because he has been practising his accents before our overseas holiday.

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18th July 2013 11:07 AM

Super mum NO-ONE looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep - no-one...

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04th July 2013 1:07 PM

Cockroaches versus cane toads; to me they are awful creatures and we would be better off to be rid of both.

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28th June 2013 10:06 AM

This week when I interviewed a cake maker I hoped to get inspiration, or at least find out what she had that I didn’t.

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20th June 2013 12:06 PM

After spending two days sick in bed, I wished I had my own Super Mum here to look after me.

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14th June 2013 11:06 AM

Kids aim a lot of questions your way, and some don't make a lot of sense. I have to be honest here, a lot of my answers...

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07th June 2013 2:06 PM

I am eternally grateful I have never been the one to face constant mirth once the annual school class photographs came...

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30th May 2013 2:05 PM

FANS can be devoted one minute, devilish the next, so what is an author to do when writing the final chapter.

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23rd May 2013 1:05 PM

Magicians make things appear, like magic. My kids make them disappear, like magic.

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09th May 2013 3:05 PM

The true way to know when you are in big trouble is not in what your Mother days, but instead by how she says it.

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03rd May 2013 1:05 PM

It seems hard to imagine in these modern times having to go without anything. The closest our kids have experienced war...

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26th April 2013 2:04 PM

The story about a student pilot losing a wheel to his plane on take-off this week is a classic example of being thrown in...

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11th Jan. 2013 4:01 PM

WHEN New Year’s comes around you can’t help but review the past before you plan for the future.

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03rd Jan. 2013 12:01 PM

I DON’T consider myself to be psychic in any way, shape or form, but plenty of things have happened lately just as I...

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31st Dec. 2012 10:12 AM

I would rather do one of those holidays where you have a start and a finish date and a final destination and just see where...

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31st Dec. 2012 10:12 AM

When my son is sitting in the back seat of the car, he can’t change the radio station. When he is in the front he can...

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13th Dec. 2012 2:12 PM

SUPER MUM COLUMN: IT is not too often you get a handwritten letter in the mail box these days.

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06th Dec. 2012 1:12 PM

I haven't started to make my Christmas list, let alone checked it twice. I think the worst part of Christmas is the...

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29th Nov. 2012 11:11 AM

My son showed first signs of artistic talent at a young age. So maybe I shouldn't have reacted the way I did when I found...

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22nd Nov. 2012 4:11 PM

Pay attention to your surroundings. Like, if you have a dog you have to be careful where you walk; otherwise you step into...

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16th Nov. 2012 5:11 PM

I'd love to wake and find I had a novel written ready to send to a publisher. Instead all I find is a bookcase of novels...

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08th Nov. 2012 4:11 PM

Halloween is in the top five favourite days of the year for my son, in among Christmas, Easter, his birthday and any day he...

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31st Oct. 2012 2:10 PM

When expecting your first child you have images of cute babies that sleep all the time. Instead I had a baby that didn't...

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24th Oct. 2012 4:10 PM

THE kids are preparing for their first camping trip without us. Don't worry, we are not sending the kids out into the...

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18th Oct. 2012 10:10 AM

In my second week of child-free holidays, I shhouldn't have a worry in the world. But life hasn't been all roses. There is...

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05th Oct. 2012 4:10 PM

I remember my own school holidays, when I would head off on all sorts of wonderful adventures. The memories may be a tad...

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28th Sept. 2012 12:09 PM

Nicknames; whatever your name, we make it shorter. And if your name can't be made shorter, we will make it longer, just...

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21st Sept. 2012 4:09 PM

When kids raise the tricky questions about sex, do parents have the licence to tell it all?

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13th Sept. 2012 2:09 PM

With Father's Day marked on the calendar this Sunday, take a look at things from a kids point of view.

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30th Aug. 2012 1:08 PM

Thanks to my parents I have the luxury of raising a glass, and can enjoy a drink on a rare night out.

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23rd Aug. 2012 12:08 PM

Big Brother is watching, my friends are watching Big Brother, and I'm watching my own social experiment as it happens in my...

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17th Aug. 2012 6:08 PM

Forget the footy, there are keen athletes ready to try sports like badminton and table tennis, thanks to the Olypmics. My...

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10th Aug. 2012 10:08 AM

THOSE who know me know I don't do sports. I take photographs of it, because that is my job, but I don't do it, don't...

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02nd Aug. 2012 12:08 PM

The nine-year-olds no longer want me to walk them to school but the idea of them wandering through traffic puts fear into...

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28th July 2012 4:07 PM

I'm all for a public pash anytime, and leaving the house always starts with a lip lock with my loved one.

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25th July 2012 11:07 AM

When I was a kid, I thought my siblings were there purely to cause me grief. We were a normal family and we fought over...

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13th July 2012 10:07 AM

It's too easy to send a text or an email to the wrong person. But I never imagined my private text messages would not...

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09th July 2012 10:07 AM

IT IS no secret I love to read. Despite my best efforts, my son hasn't quite managed to follow in my footsteps, or pages...

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09th July 2012 9:07 AM

DON'T you hate it when karma is keeping tabs on you? Just an offhanded comment bragging about how good you are, and...

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14th June 2012 2:06 PM