Today is the official start of the #ShowYourSlow challenge. In case you missed it, I have teamed up with my good friend Eileen from Little Acorn Learning, and it is our mission to encourage and (hopefully) inspire moms to slow down, unplug, unschedule, and enjoy more mindful moments with your families this summer. In order
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The Family Meeting
Eight days ago I lost it on the kids in the car on the way home from Costco and then I wrote this post after I decided that I was no longer messing around and I was going to have to make some changes. Originally I was going to wait until school was done to establish
Desperate for Advice
About a week ago I received this message: I am in desperate need of advice. I have 4 children and my husband has 4 children from a previous marriage. For the past several months we have been in a custody battle for his children. It is looking like we are going to be granted custody
#ShowYourSlow
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking lately about the craziness of my life and the kids’ lives, and that led me to write this post. I’m ready for a slower summer. A less scheduled, more relaxed, old fashioned summer. You know, like the ones I had when I was a kid. And this
Mirror mirror on the wall.
Sometimes when you are feeling really blue, you have to fake it. You have to pretend for the kids or your coworkers or your students or whoever that everything is great. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of focus and a lot of energy and it’s exhausting. Today I had one of
What’s the story you are telling yourself?
Yesterday I wrote about our day at Kent Falls. I took this picture sitting on a little amphitheater type spot where there are steps leading down close to the water. We lucked out and it was fairly quiet yesterday, but sometimes it can be pretty crowded in this area. While we were there, a man and