When life starts getting crazy I remind myself to pause for a moment and grieve the person I used to be, the life I used to have, and the sheer weight of my roles and responsibilites right now.
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“We’ve set mothers up to fail, or at the very least, we’ve set mothers up to feel like they’re failing.”
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It’s moments like this that I question who motherhood is changing me in to. On one hand, it’s given me my greatest purpose. On the other hand, it sometimes winds me so tight that I’m beyond recognition.
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“Food fights were so much more fun in middle school. Now it takes on a whole new meaning.”
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These are activities that we have found successful in our house for ages 2-3 years in order to create a learning environment for our children.
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He asked me to put his raffle ticket into the pink bike basket, but I snuck it into the superhero bike basket instead.
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For a second I paused, collected my thoughts, and then turned so I could look him straight in the eyes. I wanted to be sure he heard what I was about to tell him.
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Because of the gap in our dreaming dynamic, I have developed a tendency to keep my dreams to myself - which makes them one tiny notch above being completely obsolete.
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“You can’t plant negative instructions and raise a postive child anymore than you can plant beans and raise potatoes.” -Zig Ziglar
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