Habits, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Toddlers
Below are a few of my own personal tips and tricks for providing structure for toddlers at home. I have somewhat organically created this structure within our home, and it us all happy, helps us through transitions with ease, and makes the day go just fast enough without the stress or the rush.
Habits, Motherhood, Toddlers
Whether you are a stay at home parent babies and toddlers, or whether due to present circumstances, you are currently at home with your children of any/all age, successful toddler quiet times are necessary for both toddlers and parents, especially if you want to keep your sanity.
Habits, Lifestyle
To feel the gentleness of wind against my face while riding hands free on my bike with my neighborhood friends. Popsicles, cookie dough, baseball games in the park after school, the sound of my mother on the front porch calling myself and brothers home for dinner…If I knew then how important and wonderful each of these moments would be to my future, aging self, I would have captured them better for long term memory, not taking them for granted, and not wishing them away in hopes that I could grow up fast, quickly mature, become an independent, self-sufficient adult…
Habits, Lifestyle
Discover four more ways to successfully connect with others A couple of years ago, I began making it a priority to cultivate relationships with friends. In fact, I made it a resolution for the New Year, 2018, to connect with others. (Click and read here to find out why this has been important to me). I previously wrote a blog …
Habits, Lifestyle
…I am learning, and making progress. I started with a simple strategy, and lately, I have been making more attempts to connect with others on a deeper and more personal level. Here are some of the ways I am reaching out and connecting with others. As you read these strategies, consider…
Habits, Lifestyle
I have always been a bit shy, introverted, and mostly able to accomplish things on my own. Other than when I was a boy crazy teenager, I have never really been much into talking on the phone. I have always been the one to receive invitations to events, however big or small. I have rarely hosted or initiated events. So arriving at the question of how I want others to interpret my life and also how I want them to perceive the person I am was a major question with a major void. I realized that at the end of my life, I don’t want to be alone. Life is meant to be shared.
Habits, Lifestyle
These are all things that tend to get left behind in the midst of babies, sicknesses, soccer games, doctor appointments, visiting in-laws, holidays, and in general, life. However, when we don’t take care of ourselves, this is what happens…
Habits, Lifestyle
When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried? When was the last time you truly lost track of time? So often we forget how amazing life truly is. We forget because we are rushed into the day at the sound of an alarm, and we don’t give ourselves ten extra minutes to step outside and breathe the cool, crisp morning air.
Habits, Lifestyle
…what I did care about then and remember to this day is coming home from school every day and finding her on the couch reading a book, waiting for me to walk in so she could say to me, “Hi Sweet Pea. How was your day?”
Habits, Lifestyle, Love & Marriage
…dates should be about the things that brought the two of you together way, way back in the beginning days when you still had butterflies over the other. Dates should be fun, should remind you both why you love each other, should bring about smiles and laughs, should make you want to take pictures so you can look back at the memories made during that date, and should be an event that you don’t want to end…
