I just added four additional free parenting and lifestyle goodies for you to enjoy! I have listed them below with clickable links. You can also find them…
Activities, featured, Food, Habits, Lifestyle, Parenting, Recipe, Toddlers
Activities, featured, Food, Habits, Lifestyle, Parenting, Recipe, Toddlers
Habits, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Toddlers
Help Your Child Stop Sucking that Thumb Now!
At first the thumb sucking was cute, adorable even…I always thought it was too soon to do anything about it. Everyone told me that he would eventually grow out of it on his own. So we let it go for a little while longer. However, once the little man turned four (we made) a big push to kick the habit to the ground and bury it for good.
Lifestyle
Why You Need To Savor The Moments & Be Present
When we long for the past, we can easily become bitter and grief-ridden about our present. When we look to the future, we risk becoming disillusioned and fearful. Both the past and the future rob us of our hope and our joy in the present, making it impossible to embrace each season as we are in it.
Lifestyle, Motherhood, Uncategorized
Becoming Like My Mom-The Better Qualities Of My Mother
As mothers, it is so easy to feel and truly believe ourselves inadequate. Being the best mother is constantly tugging at our hearts every moment of every day. But really, how can we know what is best in this world where social media, advertising, and even our friends are full of differing ideas and opinions? At best, we are left…
Habits, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Toddlers
The Benefits of Spending Quality Time with Your Kids
We entered into a whole new wavelength of parenting that dumbfounded both of us and forced us to seek help. You see, my very compliant, sweet, and helpful son who had skipped the terrible twos started wanting more independence. And he challenged us, (particularly me) on nearly everything. And when he was challenging us, it was only because he wasn’t listening. That is when we discovered…
Habits, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Toddlers
Discover How to Make The Perfect Schedule for your Preschooler
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, Lifestyle
A Simple Letter to My Fifteen Year Old Self
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
Unleash Four MORE Proven Ways to Connect With Others
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
Five Proven & Fail Proof Ways To Connect With Others
…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
You Need to Know Why Relationships are so Important.
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.