I have a tendency to place a lot of guilt on myself. Always have. I used to think that if I didn’t enjoy something to the fullest, that I was somehow failing, was less of a mom, or ungrateful. Have you ever felt that way? I love Mazy more than that wee little 3 year…
What an exciting past week we’ve had, visiting Minnesota! We left last Tuesday around 11am and made it to Minnesota in good time, and arrived by 8:30pm their time! That left just enough room for Dan to go to the fireworks, while Mazy and I stayed back so that she could go to bed at…
Mazy LOVES books! Almost every single day, we sit down for those few precious minutes, reading books. She has her go-to books every week, but then there are those that she repeatedly picks up, every single week. When I realized how much she loved books as a little girl, I decided to get a few…
The crib is set up, you wipe away all of the wrinkles in the sheet, the books are lined up just so, and maybe you’ve even rocked in that new chair in the corner; all in preparation for that new baby to come home. I’m sure you can picture yourself in this scenario, whether you…
Do you get overwhelmed easily? I have talked numerous times about being “enough”. I feel the need to talk about this because that is often a ringing conversation I have with others. No conversation sticks out in particular, but being “enough” is really an idea that our culture speaks against; therefore, causing that good ole…
In parenting, we often consider ourselves the teacher, our children the students. Of course it should look like this, as we prepare our children to be children, all while preparing them to be adults one day. But what we often overlook is the fact that they are teaching us just as much about life. If…
