My 10 year old daughter shared with me this poem she wrote yesterday and I was so touched by it I wanted to share. A Prayer A prayer for the songs. A prayer for the butterflies. A prayer for the animals. A prayer for the birds. A prayer for the plants. A prayer for [...]
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My daughter’s poem and prayer
Posted in Creativity, Mindful parenting on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Top 9 favorite books of 2010
Posted in Books I've read, Living Intentionally, Mindful parenting, PRO woman, tagged 2010, favorite books, must read books, top books on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So a couple of years ago, I started keeping track of the books I have read and want to read on Shelfari. Some people use GoodReads.com for this but I started with Shelfari and I love it. I love seeing how many books I read in a year and love to rate them, leave comments [...]
Bah Humbug. I am not what I buy.
Posted in Living Intentionally, Mindful parenting, Videos I like, tagged consumer, consumerism, materalism, materialistic, story of stuff on November 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today I have been thinking about all the gifts I need to buy and all the things I still have left to do in the mere weeks left before Christmas. This time of year can be overwhelming for so many reasons but primarily because I have bought into the idea that my kids won’t have [...]
Truth about beauty & being pretty #parenting #feminism
Posted in Living Intentionally, Mindful parenting, PRO woman, Videos I like, tagged challenge stereotypes, feminism, feminist, poetry, pretty, raising strong daughters, strong women, video on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a most powerful video with a message to all women, girls, and men who want to challenge toxic beliefs about beauty and how to empower girls to be true to their own inner beauty. Although it has been around for 3 years, I just saw this video today and felt immediately compelled to [...]
What is WRONG with people?? #Halloween
Posted in Mindful parenting, Uncategorized, tagged fear, halloween, Halloween fear, parenting, what is wrong with Halloween on October 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I saw a Halloween store and thought “Oh, great! I can surprise my daughter with the moon & stars hat she wants to complete her witch costume. “ She has wanted a specific hat she saw on a character in a book that she could wear year round as part of her fairy/witch/magician costume. [...]
My 9 year olds confession scared me to death
Posted in Mindful parenting, tagged children, confession, fears, mistakes, parenting, raising daughters on October 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So I was sitting tonight on the couch just now…trying decide if I would do more work, play games on Facebook, return some emails or simply go to bed. I was in the midst of grabbing the ringing phone when my 9 yr old daughter came out of her room. Now mind you, she comes [...]
Creativity All Around – Our family
Posted in Creativity All Around, Mindful parenting, tagged childrens art, creativity, creativity all around, kid art, our family, portrait on September 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A few years back my daughter was in a very creative mood and decided to make portraits of our family. These are about 1 1/2 to 2 feet tall and hang in our home. I love how she has captured some personalities in the artwork and how they seem so happy. (The big teeth one [...]
Overwhelmed & excited with kindergarten
Posted in Living Intentionally, Mindful parenting, Uncategorized, tagged back to school, dualism, growing up, kindergarten, letting go, overwhelmed, parenting, sadness, school, unbalanced on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow my youngest begins Kindergarten and I’m feeling mixed emotions about this. She is my baby… and it is so hard to believe that she is entering Kindergarten already. We did hold her back a year so she is actually older to be attending but that doesn’t make it any easier. I often tell her [...]
America’s Worst Mom is my hero.
Posted in Mindful parenting, tagged awareness, free range kids, free range parenting, parenting on July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
OH MY GOD…I love this woman (and her book). Lenore Skenazy has been dubbed, “America’s Worst Mom” and she is my hero. As a parent who fights media influence, strives to promote creative thinking and imagination, and am consciously raising my children to be independent…she is one of my parenting heroes. I’ve read her book, [...]
