Below you can find a few of my favorite tips that I pep-talk myself with as well as offer to home school friends. While this journey can be beautiful, it is demanding and burn out can happen easily if you are too rigid and structured in your ways.
Tag: Motherhood
5 Tips| Be Beautiful
Today, no matter where you are and regardless of what life is throwing your way… I hope that you will allow yourself the chance to be your most beautiful person inside and it will undoubtedly reflect on the outside. How? 1)Find that inner strength and the confidence that resonates deep within yourself. Know that you…
5 Truths of Motherhood:
Working out post baby
Post baby, I am always committed to getting back into shape and the two ways i’m doing that is by working out (at home and gym) and swimming along with of course, a healthy diet. I know there’s a barrage of articles pertaining to loving your post partum body and while I think we…
5 Tips on Bringing Home a New Baby
He woke up in the middle of the night and realized we weren’t home. There was crying and sadness at 2 am and lots of checking the garage and driveway for his daddy’s car and so when we did come back home with a new baby, he wasn’t entirely sure about her. Today, 6 1/2…
Funky Pancakes| Natural Food Coloring
Some days, we serve up toast and eggs for a simple breakfast or even cereal when this mama isn’t quite awake and other days I pretend to be artsy and creative and make pancakes into special designs. To add color I added natural food coloring which I purchased from Whole Foods. It is concocted from…
…”thinking”, she said
Morning walk/ bike riding at the Savannah Rapids with the family. This girl wanted to hang out here for most of the time, observing nature, the things floating in the water, people kayaking, dog playing fetch in the water, eating fruit and “thinking about things” she said. Watching them alone, in their element is already…
Afternoons with my girl…
Trying out purple hair chalk and painting hello kitty pictures with my girl. She calls me mama and its tender yet demanding and to me, epitomizes the beauty of motherhood. I hope to never forget the way her big dark brown eyes stare into mine and her sometimes loud but always beautiful voice expresses all…
And though she be but little she is fierce….
William Shakespeare says it quite eloquently in a quote that fits the 5 pound 6 ounce baby girl I gave birth to back in 2010. In utero, she defied the odds and proved doctors and modern medicine wrong. Initially diagnosed as having intra uterine growth restriction when pregnant with her, doctors told me they…
Mac and Cheese Dinner
The phone rang and I eagerly answered it, if only to ensure that this afternoon my husband was coming straight home and not taking any gym or library detours. It was a long day, filled with a teething 4 month old which is new for me because in my other kids this phase didn’t start…
This Beautiful Life of Ours 