No one else will know the strength of my love for you. After all, you are the only one who knows what my hearts sounds like from the inside. I saw this quote the other day and it really struck a chord in me. There is something that shifts in you when you have a child. A fierce love fire flames …
Natural Parenting
Holiday’s and Family
Let our lives be full of Thanks and Giving. Happy Thanksgiving! Holidays with Blended Families can be tricky. We have chosen to celebrate the holidays in our own way: Holidays are more about gathering together as a family and that it is about feelings not a specific day or presents. If it's …
Dinner Conversations….
Mina came home yesterday after a week with her dad and grandparents. She decided she was ready to talk about her feelings regarding the Divorce. Typical Mina style, she told me that she finally had words to express how she felt and she wanted to discuss them. "It's hard for a little girl to go from …
Teaching a child is like training an Aligator to “stay”
As I have been working through Jack Canfileld's Success Principle's, I have been trying to use some of them with Mina and the girls. We are still working on "taking 100% Responsibility for your life." It's a hard one to swallow. There has been a lot of wiggling and writhing as we go into choices and …
Fear
I realized something last night as a storm blew through. I have this primal fear about being able to keep my child safe, on my own, during an intense storm. It has become apparent since becoming a single mom, that this fear crops up when the electricity goes off in January and I worry about keeping …