TIA

TIA

My husband and I have recently started reading some books on being strong parents. What the role of that looks like and how it shapes healthy adult children. While going through this I also had the privilege of going to a place where I visited a group of kids who did not get that kind [...]

Mantra

Mantra

Some people have a Mantra. Other people have many mantra's and some have never really thought about it. Getting your thoughts down and even up on a prominent wall is helpful for the focus of what you deem successful and important in life. It can change things dramatically! There are many slogans, quotes, and phrases [...]

Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

We recently moved. I loved it. Well, actually I hated the moving part and the stepping further away from my friends part and the changing of bills part and I still have to change my address on my driver's license. I loved a certain part of it. Purging. I am a professional purger. I get [...]

Give Yourself A Break

Give Yourself A Break

First let me just say that this “how to”  is a “me too” post. It’s a “How Too”. LOL. Today we are talking about compassion. I have had the beautiful privilege of recently walking out giving myself a break and having personal compassion! Life experience in this area has been truly one of the best [...]

In a Nutshell

Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my song. And he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, this is my Father’s God, and I will exalt him. I have actually been working on a much longer version of my story. To obey Psalms 78: 6-7 in a literal [...]

Taking it Seriously

Taking it Seriously

I had a friend recently encouraged me. Well I understood that she was trying to encourage me... The person made a comment to try to encourage me in my role as a mother. I was feeling down and very much unqualified for the large task of creating a life quipped and taught the beautiful nature [...]

Small Shifts

Small Shifts

I've been reading a book on organic and heirloom farming that has both fascinated and challenged me. Of course I have dashed out to order seed catalogs, harvest books and swore that I will only touch grass-fed beef from now on. This is so my thing. I love this stuff. I watch every documentary on [...]

Loving Your Life

I have always been someone who really treasured kids. As the oldest of a large family and my life work as a dance instructor, kids were always in the picture. I loved every minute of it but I also always made sure people got that comment “I was glad I could give them back”.   [...]