Blue Heeler Lisa McCune talks about motherhood and the difference between parenting boys and girls

Australian actress, Lisa McCune, most famous here for her role in local drama, Blue Heelers (she won a TV Week Logie for her role as Maggie Doyle) talked to Australian Women’s Weekly, this month about motherhood and her three children, Archer James, 6, Oliver Timothy, 3 1/2, and Remy Elise, 2. Here are the children/parent related highlights;

Lisa talks about her relationship with Remy and how it is different than having a boy.

She’s like my little shadow. She just goes everywhere I go, she loves being with me. Archer’s energy is just amazing. These boys need to be out of the house by 9am and running in the backyard, or collecting shells on the beach down the road, where we go a lot. But Remy will sit down and play in the kitchen, and do things quietly on her own. We will have to lock her up when she starts wanting to go out with her big brothers’ friends.

Lisa also talks about her husband, Tim Disney as a father.

Tim’s such a great dad. It’s kind of like living in wonderland with Tim, even for me. There’s always some crazy activity going on. He’s really fun.

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Like many other celebrity parents, Lisa and Tim try to organizetheir work so that one of them is always at home for their children.

Timand I try to alternate work, but we got caught with Sea Patrol. Mumcame to Mission Beach to help out with the kids. As far as industriesgo where you can have children and work, we’re probably doing quitewell, but there are times in the future when I’m sure it will bedifficult and I will have to say no. I could never do a Heelersschedule again with a family, but we want to take the kids wherever wework. They get a lot out of it and the experience, at this age, isfantastic. They’re happier being with us. It’s probably an education initself. However, I’m sure the time will come when, socially, they won’twant to. But for now, it’s exciting and they have a ball. InQueensland, they played with coconuts and sticks on the beach for sevenweeks and loved it.

Lisa does however mention that they are pretty normal and her life is as hectic as any other mother’s.

Thescreaming that goes on around five o’clock here – it’s usually from me.It does get pretty noisy. Mum bought me a book the other day, called BeCalm (check out some similar titles here). My parenting self-help section takes up nearly the whole bookshelf.

Source: Australian Women’s Weekly. June issue. p. 76-80.

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preesi on June 26th, 2007

HERE IS BIGTIME SCOOP!

NY POST/MICHAEL STARR
NANCY Grace is revealing that she was secretly married in April-and
that she’s expecting twins in January.

“I’m finally not keeping it a secret anymore,” she told The Post.

Grace says she still hasn’t told CNN that she’s pregnant. She’ll
officially make the announcement tonight on her Headline News show,
“Nancy Grace.”

Grace married David Linch -an Atlanta investment banker she has known
since they attended Mercer College together in the late 1970s.

“We’ve been in touch all these years and a lot of time we were
separated by geography and time,” she says. “It was a spur-of-the-
moment decision to get married. I told my family only two days before
[the wedding].

“We got married in April in Atlanta with just my family and his family
there,” she says. “It was a simple ceremony conducted by my longtime
pastor from a little Methodist church in Macon.

“I walked down the aisle to my favorite song, ‘Moon River,’ and I did
my own vows. I read from the Book of Ruth and I wore my sister’s
bridal veil.

“I never thought it would happen like this,” she says. “I thought
‘mother’ and ‘wife’ was just not part of God’s plan for me.

“This is such a blessing, and I just can’t believe that, at my age, I
would find such happiness.”

She declined to say if she’d had fertility treatments in order to
become pregnant at age 47.

“But you tell women out there that there is hope,” she said.

Time will tell if motherhood and marriage mellows the cable news
channel host’s pit-bull disposition.

But her personal news does answer questions that arose when she left
Court TV last month.

“I knew something had to go, and that [something] was Court TV,” she
says. “I was firm that I wanted out of my option, but I didn’t reveal
that I was carrying twins.”

So how does Grace think CNN will react to the news? “They’ll be
thrilled,” she says. “I don’t think they’ll be angry at all.”