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We Choose You: A Letter to our Children as School Begins

July 22, 2020 by Christian Leave a Comment
pandemic schooling

Girls, your parents are in uncharted territory. We are making decisions that, on some scale, parents have never had to make before. As we face the choice of if, and how, to send you to school this fall, there is a barrage of questions. And if adults feel that they are under the microscope while … [Read more…]

Posted in: Healthy Lifestyle Tagged: homeschool, pandemic, public school, school, work life balance, working mom

On Looking Up and Out

June 29, 2020 by Christian Leave a Comment
looking up and out

We can enact change, within our hearts and in the greater world. And though these small actions might not lead to a stacked resume, or an Instagram-worthy feed, the ripple effect of their positive contribution may prove to leave a much larger impact.

Posted in: Mindfulness & Advocacy Tagged: compassion, pandemic, response

I Don’t Like Snow Days

March 29, 2020 by Christian Leave a Comment
snow days

If other parents are smiling on skis and making snow angels,
why I am pulling my hair out before lunch? And then, further down the path of guilt, I worry that my
children will only have memories of a cranky, overwhelmed mother. Not graceful pictures captured in the snow, but a frazzled, frustrated grouch.

Posted in: Mindfulness & Advocacy Tagged: snow days, working parents

Teaching Our Children Their Value

December 14, 2019 by Christian Leave a Comment
teaching value

How do we teach them, not to be scared of the world and rob them of simple joys, but to be prudent and cautious, while learning respect for everyone and their journey?

Posted in: Mindfulness & Advocacy Tagged: one in four, safe haven

When You’re Trying to Hold Up the House of Cards

December 10, 2019 by Christian Leave a Comment
interruptions in parenting

My frustration reached the point where, instead of trying to protect our time, I was becoming almost aggressively defensive of our daily lives. I wouldn’t let anything, or worse, anyone, into our world who threatened to knock the cards down.

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: interruptions, parenting

How to Say No

September 2, 2019 by Christian Leave a Comment

While I could juggle literal life-altering decisions in the moment, I struggled when it came to the day-to-day decisions of running our family and contributing to our community.

Posted in: Organization & Time Management Tagged: back to school, Big Family, saying no, time management, volunteering

All I Need to Know

July 27, 2019 by Christian Leave a Comment
All I Need to Know

All I needed to know, I learned from Nanny.

Posted in: Mindfulness & Advocacy Tagged: Wisdom

Bringing Home Baby #3 (or higher)

July 10, 2019 by Christian Leave a Comment
Bringing Home Baby

Earlier this year, a friend, just shy of bringing home baby #3, asked me a question I know I’ve asked myself on more than one occasion: “Am I crazy to have more than two children?” I was startled at first, mostly because our little town is packed with large families. But then I returned right … [Read more…]

Posted in: Organization & Time Management, Uncategorized Tagged: Big Family, new baby, siblings

I’m Willing to Wait for It

June 7, 2019 by Christian 1 Comment
wait for it

As we progress through each step of childhood, I’ve found that every moment I think I’ve reached a finish line, or at least made it one step closer, I’m startled to discover that someone has moved it. The needs I thought I could anticipate, I didn’t. The moments where I felt prepared, I wasn’t. The frustration mounts to the point where I can’t seem to catch a break, no matter how hard I try.

Posted in: Mindfulness & Advocacy Tagged: childhood, patience, special needs

What I Hope You Learned This Year

May 22, 2019 by Christian Leave a Comment
end of school year

While they are being wrapped in celebration, I want to know that my girls have learned that the content of their character far outweighs their score on a test.

Posted in: Mindfulness & Advocacy Tagged: celebration, compassion, end of school
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