Scurrying through the dining room to complete a quick 15 minute pick-up session before supper, I turned to my 5-year old daughter for assistance. ”Could you put that brush in the bathroom, please?”
My request was met with a very nonchalant, “It’s not mine.”
SCREEEEECH! Somehow those words hit me like fingernails on a chalkboard. After teaching tweeners for eight [...]
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My challenge for you today: embrace this time with your littles. Don’t fight it. What a wonderful gift we’ve been given to be everything to our children. What an opportunity for growth and learning (for us and them!) just by including and encouraging them in the daily routine.
Read more of my Mommy Monday guest post at Happy to be at [...]
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I’m a guest poster again this week at Happy to be at Home. The topic? Cleaning with the kids. Those of you who know me in person… quit laughing!!! Cleaning is definitely not my forte, but the kids and I do have a few strategies to get it done together. Go check it out!
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Head on over to Happy to be at Home to read my Mommy Monday guest post, and to see why this ridiculous picture was intentionally taken…
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My kids are great teachers. They teach me how to slow down. They show me what really matters. They help me get back to the basics and focus on the Finer Things.
Children are all about simplicity. Feed me. Clothe me. Love me. Feed me. They like to be fed, too.
I had a couple of choices [...]
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“I really don’t want to go out there, but I don’t want to miss the moment.”
So out he went, after a 12-hour day of teaching and coaching training, inspiring, and encouraging a spirited group of teenagers.
Out to join a previously solitaire game of football (we have an extremely talented 3 year old… he can play [...]
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When our first-born was a baby, Lance and I would sometimes talk about how much fun it will be someday when she was ready to play board games. We’d reminisce about the games of our own childhoods: Trouble, Monopoly, Life, The Farm Game, etc.
“Someday” has definitely arrived! We do have a challenge [...]
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A couple years ago I was enjoying a conversation with a kindergarten-teacher friend of mine. As a teacher myself, I was excited to hear about her first few days with her very first class. I don’t remember much of our conversation now, but the following statement has stayed with me to this day:
“My biggest struggle is that [...]
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