Happy Monday everyone! I am at Disney World this week and decided to pull out some old posts while I am away. I’m not sure anyone ever saw these so it will be fun to bring it into the light again. I scheduled this week’s posts before the flood. I plan to share the experience…
Every once in a while in a challenging asana I am reminded of childbirth. As I hold my pose, I focus on a point ahead and on my breathing remembering that if I could naturally give birth to each of my children, then I can certainly maintain this pose, whatever it may be. I try…
This week’s Weekly Challenge is about offering advice or a bit of knowledge to somebody. The piece below was my very first blog post and is near and dear to my heart because it was my first bit of writing coming out of a sleep-deprived haze when my son was 6 months old. If a first…
Day three of kindergarten and my daughter is quickly growing up. The first day of school I walked her to class, the second day I dropped her off and a fifth grader walked her to class and today I dropped her off and she walked herself to class…with me watching her all the way to…
As a child, my favorite movie was The Wizard of Oz. I watched it over and over and over. I knew every line, sang the songs (and still do to my daughter), and reenacted parts in play. The movie has always struck me; as a child with the wonder of the Land of Oz, as…
Common sense defined by Merriam-Webster: “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Or, as dictionary.com defines it: “sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.” My children are smart. All parents think their kids are intelligent and I am no…
My daughter assigns a “snuggly”, one of the many stuffed animals that line her bed, to me and one to my husband as I leave her room after bedtime stories. This is the child that never had any kind of “lovey” or attachment as a baby. She never took a pacifier or sucked her fingers…
Every mother talks about it at one time or another, how much their lives change in so many ways once they have children. The aspect that creeps up on us unexpectedly though is the embarrassing fact that most of us become a contributing member of “The Out-Crowd”. I did not realize how deeply entrenched I…
So often in life we tell ourselves “oh well, hindsight is 20/20″ and we go on with our day like that is just a fact of life. We tend to question our judgment, always thinking of things we should have said or done that would have gotten the perfect result. Motherhood screams this phrase to…
Ever since my daughter was a young baby, probably no more than 3 months olds, I began thinking about her education. As most parents do, I began reading to her regularly, teaching her animal sounds and showing her flashcards of common items. I glowed when she said “mama” and was equally glowing the day she…
Winding Road 