We all have good days and bad days. What I try to remind my children (and myself) is that it is okay to feel it. Feel your tears, feel your anger, feel your frustration, and feel your joy. While you’re feeling all the feels though, your next responsibility is to deliberately act upon them…
Tag: parenting
Small Changes: Family Life Ever Evolving
Small changes is a theme of parenthood. From the newborn days when you spend days trying to parent perfectly only to find out that once you have found your stride something changes to the constant changes of routines and schedules of school-aged sports playing children. Last year, I wrote about a change in routine of…
Birthday Parties: As a guest and a host
Whether you have little toddlers or school aged children birthday parties are a part of your regular routine. Even if your children are not a part of a traditional school, homeschool, not in school yet, rural school, one room school house, there is a good chance you’ll be attending several parties each year. This page…
My Modern Housewife Morning
So this is what it comes to: Being a modern parent, housewife, freelancer. I am ready to walk out the door and walk the 1.3 miles to school to fulfill my #fit4fall goals, but while I was checking email and Facebook on my iPhone all of a sudden it is 7:20 and by the time…
Sincerely, your fortune cookie
Cleaning up one’s desk it is not only an exercise in sorting, cleansing, purging and organizing, but in philosophy as well. Here is the little bit of ‘food for thought’ I came across while sorting through the mountain if collected crap that all gets deposited on my desk). I think it’s the perfect thought as…
Shut it! or Having a Voice & Knowing When Not to Use It
Parenting… aw heck… life is complicated. We breeze through some parts and struggle, hugging the ground for dear life in other parts. Everything is rarely what it seems. And yet, we all find some kind of sick comfort in criticizing one another… some more than others. I am not writing this about any one particular…
Fair, No Fair, Not Fair
Somewhere between the age of 5 and 8 begins the mantra of childhood ‘not fair!’. It becomes the most spoken phrase and one that raises the tiny hairs on many a parent’s neck and you, the adult, turn into your own parents responding ‘Life is not fair .’ Perhaps you swore you ‘d never say…
Stereotypes: Gender, Parenting, and the Status Quo
I’m not sure if the word stereotype by definition is negative, but if I’m honest (and I always try to be) then I truly believe we all depend on stereotypes all the time every day to navigate our world. We make assumptions every time we look at someone. We need a starting point. It becomes…
Life is better…
Play is something I talk and think about a lot. I believe that in childhood, school, adulthood and work, play has a vital role in helping us be better at all that we do. Today, well this morning, I am not working, despite the fact that I have a lot to do, because it has…
Parenting is: A multi-part series
Sometimes parenthood is being wrapped up nice and tight in a huge warm blanket… and tiny hands yanking the other end so you spin all the way undone and come out spinning, cold, and utterly confused. You are left with two choices… tumble on the ground together in a fit of giggles and start all…
Tired Parent, Goes Hungry
On our way out the door to camp, a rare rainy morning required rain boots. I opened the shoe cabinet to find not only my Hunter rain booties but wedged between all the shoes a bag of tortilla chips. Until you have children you don’t know what tired really feels like or how silly things…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 