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I finally had the time to sit down and go through the new journal prompts from Creative with Kids . I've got to say as a parent, but especially a stay-at-home mom this nurturing is something that a lot! I nurture my husband and kids, but rarely myself. I find that as mom I need to find new ways to nurture myself because if I'm not taking care of myself how can I take care of everyone else. What are 5 or more SIMPLE activities I can do when I truly need to nurture myself? (Think about what you can do when you’re burnt out and low energy – take a bath? drink a cup of tea? walk outside and take a deep breath?  What nurtures YOU?) This is the question that really stood out to me in this category. What can I do to nurture myself when I need it? Here is what I came up with. 1. Exercise. I find that whenever I exercise in anyway I also feel better. I need to figure out a way especially in the winter to stop making excusing and just exercise. 2. Have a cup of tea. I love tea...

Hello everyone! The last few days have been really stressful. We had visitors in town this past weekend and L has been in a very odd mood plus we started swim lessons. I received an e-mail a few weeks ago about the topic of shifting perspectives and how as mothers we do it often. With everything that has been going on I thought it would be a good topic for me to write and reflect on. **When meltdown moments strike, how can you rebound quickly, shift your perspective, and put a positive light back into your day? So when meltdown moments happen what I do just depends on the situation. So if L has a meltdown I typically just ignore her until she is done. If she has a meltdown because of doing something bad then I take a different course of action depending on what happened. If it's just a typical toddler meltdown ignoring her is my rebound and lets me shift my perspective. I usually take a deep breath and count to five. By then she is usually down and I can ask her what is wrong...

We wish for more patience – what does that mean?  An ability to feel content waiting?  Less stress when things don’t go your way?  What does being patient mean to you? I think that wishing for patience means just having more peaceful moments in your day-to-day life. We all have to wait at certain times so I think the ability to feel content and stress less is what wishing for patience truly means. I think that just being able to realize that you can't control everything and taking the time to enjoy every moment of life is what patience's is all about. Are you ever impatient because you are trying to control too many people, events or situations in your life?  What can you let go of in order to be more patient? I am definitely impatient because I am trying to control people, events, or situations in my life. I am your typically Type-A personality that needs to control everything in my life. I like things done a certa...

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and enjoyed time with their family and friends. I have finally found time to sit down and write a little after the long holiday weekend as well as having a very cranky, teething baby. The journal prompt from   Creative with Kids  is gifts. This is something that I found really appropriate to talk about because of the holiday season.  What is the best gift you've ever received? The best gift I've ever received is my daughter. I know she is technical not a gift but to me she is. I never knew the kind of love I could feel for someone else until the doctors placed her on my chest and after nine long months finally got to hold her. It also helps that her birthday is December 12th so we always called her our little Christmas gift. She truly has changed my world in a way I could never imagine and even on the bad days being her mom is still the only thing I want to do.  What is your "gift giving philosophy?" What sort of g...

Creative with Kids offers this awesome weekly journal prompt e-mail that I've signed up for just recently. I figured this would broaden my horizon on topics to write about as well as make me do it more frequently. It gets sent over the weekend and last weekends were really interesting to me. The topic was home and you can write, draw, or art journal about it. The blogger art journal and her son drew his dream tree house. Here is the link for her blog post about home . How would you like your home to feel? Make a list of words that come to mind. I would like my home to feel comfortable, loving, and fun most of all. I want people to be able to come to home and feel comfortable right away. I also want my house to be full of love and fun. I love nothing more than hearing my daughter laughing and playing in the house.  What are the people, things or places that say "Home" to you? With the holidays fast approaching I think this is a very special time ...

I've been very uninspired to write the last few days and didn't want to force something out. Over the weekend I got an email from Creative With Kids a blog I follow and her topic and prompt questions got me thinking. It was all about relaxing and how her focusing on getting things done robs her from relaxing. It got me thinking because I feel the same way most days. I don't always feel I get time to relax or even can enjoy the little things in like. For the most part I've been really good at keeping myself in the moment but the last few days I've felt rushed and like I was on a constant to-do list. Before I had Lexi relaxing for me was curling up with a good book, watching one of the shows I enjoy, and messing around on the Internet. I still get to do those things I just have to pick and choose, which ones are more important and make time for it. I used to watch a lot of TV and now I pick and choose, which shows are important to me to keep up with. I also DVR mos...