With all the stress flying around here lately, I’ve begun to feel a bit worn down. Time to think of some things that restore my energy instead of taking more. Here are some of the things that help me. I’d love to hear in comments what you do when you’re feeling beat by life...
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I happen to be one of those wierdos descriminating movie viewers who has watched the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray at least half a dozen times. After a particularly frustrating day of parenthood last week, I realized that there are a number of similarities between the movie and parenthood. When re-reading what I’d...
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My 17 year old is taking a Spanish class at our local college. Three days a week she is out the door just after 7 am for that class. I am not an early riser. But this morning I managed to straggle out to the living room just as she was preparing to leave....
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Before shutting off the laptop this evening, I was wandering around in my sieve-like mind trying to think of something I had energy to write about and found this fill-in-the blank from Carmen. Perfect. I have exactly that much energy this evening. —– Bullet Points of Randomness Tomorrow: Another day of homeschool. Sigh. Some...
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Well, it didn’t end up being quite as ‘off’ as you might be picturing. After it took me half an hour to outline the homeschool plan for the day to my husband, I decided it might be a tad bit unreasonable to expect my hubby to get school accomplished while also riding herd on...
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I’m participating in Chilihead’s Children’s Chore Carnival today. We’re supposed to talk about how we handle allowance and chores. Allowance is simple: we don’t do it. In the past we have, off and on. But I always had a terrible time actually having the cash on the right day, or I’d forget…it never got...
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for the good preschool TV. I’m giving the Golden Keyboard this week to Jenn of Red Thread Road for all her helpful ideas. Thanks, everyone, for participating!!
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… that when John got home from his first day back at work since Ethiopia that his newest daughters were the first to greet him with beaming smiles and huge hugs?
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This post from Carrien was a sweet reminder of some of the traits I want to have….
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I was thinking of the power that laughter has to bind our children’s hearts to us. So often if we can get a cranky kid to laugh, we’ll win him over. I shared quite awhile ago how when my kids get to feeling sorry for themselves I’ll sometimes sing that old HeeHaw song “Gloom,...
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