I love watching my kids just be kids and learn life lessons while they interact with each other and play outside. Sometimes I feel like I am just a bystander watching them grow and learn because I want to have a hands off approach to parenting- they are learning so much by allowing room to make mistakes and problem solve…
These are so fun to do and at after you do a random act of kindness the strangest thing happens- yes, the receiver gets a nice surprise, but you walk away with such a heart of gratitude that your day is made as well…
We moved to a property with 160 acres and made sure we had homes on the property for both sets of grandparents. Not a day goes by when the kids do not see their grandparents- sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for a few hours, and sometimes for a whole weekend. They think this is a normal part of childhood to be able to walk to their grandparents house for…
Finding beauty in the mundane is a funny thing because once you start looking for beauty it fills your heart with so much gratitude that you end up seeing even more beauty and the cycle continues leaving you with a full heart ready to ‘run’ again…
I am usually flying solo without the daddybear when I am driving our 15 passenger van that we call the vanbus with our 8 kids. The thought of that may give you anxiety and I won’t lie and tell you that we are calm and collected all the time in the vanbus, but more often than not it is one of my favorite times to be with my kids…
I have found that having a few really really good friends- you know- the ‘know where the body is hidden’ kind of friends is far superior to a hundred ‘lets go out’ kind of friends. I am not saying that you can’t still be friends with all hundred of those people, but maybe they will be acquaintances more than friends at this stage of life. And that’s okay…
