There are times when being angry is appropriate. However, when you’ve just asked your child to do a task and they are in the process of pausing their game and taking off their headphones, you don’t need to say it again. They are getting to it. There is a big difference between…
In our house, for the past few years, we have been reading one chapter of a larger book as part of bedtime reading time. One of the first books we started with was Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
There is a big difference between a queasy tummy and dislike of certain smells for the first six to twelve… Read more Is It Morning Sickness or Hyperemesis Gravidarum?
Have you noticed days or weeks blending together? Are there times when you wonder where the month went? Have you… Read more How to stay present to the passage of time
How often do we get so busy with the daily tasks that we don’t notice that it’s already been a… Read more When the Days Run Together
Basically, situational depression is…well, depression brought on by a situation. These situations can be things like someone you loved passed… Read more Situational Depression: Ever Heard Of It?
From where I sit I can hear my daughters putting away their laundry. At ages eight and five they are… Read more Letting Go of Perfection
It’s time for this mama to take a break from reality for a bit.
Our microwave died last night. I need to go get a new one. Among all the other things I had planned to get done today, adding that one things has thrown me for a loop. Time for me to take a deep breath. And then another one. Until I have the strange, yet familiar, panic somewhat under control. Again.
When I was a kid summer meant long days at the playground, wading in the creek, walking to the library,… Read more Planning a Simple Summer
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