Oct 27
A strange thing happens when you’re a parent.
You find yourself saying the most unimaginably crazy things.
“No one shall use the phrase ‘Your mom’ as a snarky retort.”
(i.e. ‘oh yeah? your MOM hasn’t done her homework’)
“No one shall use that little-kid-teasing-somebody ‘na na na na naaah na’ tune for anything, ever.”
“No giving wedgies to anyone outside the family.”
“No using spaghetti as a weapon.”
Sigh.
Anyone have any crazy rules to add?
Dec 4
A few days ago, a parent helping with a school activity took a moment to let me know how much she is enjoying working with our daughter. She gave a few examples of the contributions our girl has made to group discussions and commented on her growing leadership skills. In other words, my daughter got caught doing good.
I could not stop smiling.
There’s something deeply nourishing that happens in my heart when I hear about something good my kids have done when I’m not around. I think I started realizing this when I first placed my daughter in someone else’s care when she was a baby. It was the church nursery, probably, and I think someone told me that she was a very easy baby to take care of. Cue the influx of mama pride.
As my kids have grown, along with my own maturity level, I have tried to be intentional about doing this same thing for others. Quite often, I am privileged work with high school and college student musicians as a part of my ministry. I am impressed by students who have great talent, great initiative, great hearts, and great humor. And I try to find their parents and tell them that.
I believe it’s important to notice the greatness growing around us. And I believe it’s important to support each other in little ways like this when things are going right.
So… if you have the opportunity to catch someone doing good, do it.
And share the story with the people who love them.
Sep 28
I love wreaths. I love them. But I can’t afford the ones that I really love. And I don’t like the ones I can afford. So if you’re like me and you’re not particularly crafty, just picky and… frugal, there’s a super easy solution.
Take a little trip to a nearby craft store to pick up an inexpensive, basic, vine wreath.
Walk through the floral department and select the kinds of foliage or flowers you want to use. I tend to like simple, sparse designs made of all the same foliage. For my new autumn wreath, I chose 3 varied shades of the same small flower.
I’m making a wreath for my front door, which gets hit by sun, and wind, and occasionally rain. So I have to avoid any adornments (berries, etc) that are made out of styrofoam. Because ohhh the carnage.
Use wire clippers to cut apart the stems so that you have many different pieces to use. Begin sliding the stems/flowers into the wreath, alternating colors & types as you’d like, until the wreath is full. And ba-da-bing… you’re done!
Happy fall!
So there’s this site, Things Organized Neatly, that I view daily. There’s almost nothing I view daily. But these pictures of… you know… things? organized neatly? I can’t stop looking.
So imagine my delight when I found THIS in my boy’s room. He calls it the ‘build your own Lego guy’ station.
Love. it.
Theme: Linen by The Theme Foundry
