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Tag: thankfulness
Life has been so hard. Taking time to truly appreciate the good in my life has been especially challenging for me this year. So I decided that this was a challenge I needed to accept. So here I go…
My home is a rather informal and relaxed place. My husband and I are pretty flexible and lenient parents and we have made our home a place where the kids can be safe and stress free. We have lazy days and sloppy moments and often eat the wrong foods. We have no chore list, no
Every night, before I finally get myself into bed, I wander around my darkened, quiet home shutting off lights, locking doors, closing blinds and curtains, and picking up and cleaning up a few last things. I find that this is the time of day when I am most reflective and thankful. I am thankful
This week I’m challenging myself to notice the good in each day as a way to focus on the positive stuff instead of the tough stuff. So here’s what I’m thankful for today… (I’d love to know what you’re thankful for too!) I absolutely love Morningstar breakfast sandwiches. I’m a vegetarian and recently discovered that
Stress. Anxiety. Ugh, freakin anxiety, man. I’ve been up to my eyeballs with it lately. The holidays have been doing that to me recently. The kids get so wound up, so off-schedule, eat too much sugar, don’t get enough sleep. I don’t need to tell you, you know how it is: a recipe for disaster. With a
My family has been working on filling our gratefulness jars. My daughters each decorated their own mason jar with stickers during church school and our whole church congregation was encouraged to write down something that we’re grateful for each day. Well, it doesn’t always happen every day, but usually after dinner we’ll go around the table and ask what everyone was thankful for
This is not the blog post I had planned to write. In fact, I was almost done writing something completely different. But for where I am mentally this week I just couldn’t publish it. I’m not feeling like I have my sh*t together. I don’t feel brave or inspirational. (I bet you’re just itching to
Ever have that moment when you feel validated for the job you’re doing as a parent? Let’s face it, those moments can be few and far between, but this past weekend, I experienced one of them. I’m a stickler with my daughter about thankfulness about appreciating what she has; as an only child in our
With the Thanksgiving holiday just around the corner, I have been thinking a lot about all of the things I am most thankful for. Number one on that list is my children (shocker, I know). Although I could come up with an infinite number of reasons why I’m so thankful to be their mom, there
