Sometimes the things we are most thankful for are also the biggest stresses in our life. As a busy mom running my own business, it helps to take a step back and remember what and who the important things/people in my life really are. Thanksgiving – last year -before we knew what Corona was, I wrote a poem about the little kids I’m so thankful for. Little did I know we’d be spending months in lockdown together and I’d be mom, secretary, teacher, tech assist, and more to these kids. Little did I know.
Some kids (the other kids, not yours) make parenting look so easy. And some make it look like what it is. Patience, empathy, inner growth. Kids are born with growing to do and that’s the way it should be. if we can remember that in the ’embarrassing moments’, we’ll give empathy, share understanding, and teach love.
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Vacations are so important. To get away, to have some space, to recharge, and also to miss those kids! Absence makes the heart grow fonder, even with people you love deeply.
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Sometimes, even easy and homemade dinner is too hard (or I’m too lazy). And that’s when frozen chicken nuggets come in real handy. Love-them-hate-them pretty much sums it up for me.
Sometimes the things we are most thankful for are also the biggest stresses in our life.
