When You Tell Yourself You Are Ok And Realize You Are Not
When you are 5, and your world falls apart, your heart learns to protect itself. When your only sense of security shatters, you learn to calm the panic rising into your throat. When the hurt in the frailest parts of your soul scream in agony, you force it to stay inside. You tell yourself it […]
15 Non-Toy Gift Ideas To Give Kids At Christmas
Ready or not Christmas is around the corner. For many, this brings excitement. For others, it brings stress. I’m speaking to several groups this holiday season on moving from stress to simplicity to splendor during the Christmas season. I thought it would be fun to take a little poll to see what stresses everyone out […]
When We Fight: Do We Ruin or Reinforce Relationships
I’m amazed how in a span of 2 seconds, a moment can turn from fun and laughter to anger and hurt. How quickly I can go from thinking positive and loving thoughts to ones I am shamed to own. Seems the harder I attempt to avoid conflict, the harder it pursues me. He said something. I […]
A Letter To Me (and all moms)- What We Need To Remember Before We Open The Screen
[box] Today’s post is in response to the requests of many of you. The ones who wrote to me and said, “It’s not my kids who I need to limit their electronic usage, it’s myself.” Or those of you who wrote me and said, “I’m afraid I am the one who is missing out because […]
Do You Have To See To Believe?
He had been talking about the upcoming lunar eclipse for days. Charting the moon for weeks for a school project. Explaining to me the science behind it all. Clearly I slept through elementary school science. It never was my favorite subject. I awoke at 5:00am like every morning, stumbled my way to the coffee machine, […]
You May Be Worn Down, But You Are Not Worn Out
We pulled into the Goodwill drop off lane when I realized we had a few minutes to spare. We could always make time for a real-life treasure hunt. That week Andrew had been talking about how much he would love to have his own pair of rollerblades. He stressed his own and brand new. Taking my […]
