Parenting

I wouldn’t trade one single moment of life shared with my children for a thousand years or more spent living without them.

I am at my best as a parent, as a teacher, and as a person when I am fully present.

Being an adult is basically just being your own parent. You have to give yourself a bed time, encourage yourself to eat your vegetables, and put other people before yourself. Be a good parent to yourself and it will help you to be a good person.

Love, or lack thereof, lives in everything we do.

My Most Important Principle

I go through my Check-in Checklist often. I update it often, too. I was having trouble sleeping tonight, and going through my Check-in Checklist wasn’t helping like it usually does. This may surprise you, but I have a tendency to overthink things (pause for shocked gasps). So, I got up and decided to re-write my …

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Humans are creatures of habit and habitat.

“If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.” – African proverb

Check-in Checklist Update

In one of my first posts, I shared my Check-in Checklist. I have simplified/updated my list. All of the items on my previous list still matter to me and are still a part of my wholeness, but I wanted my Check-in Checklist to be both as simple and as all-encompassing as possible. I feel like …

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If you raise your kids, you get to spoil your grandkids. If you spoil your kids, you get to raise your grandkids… I hope I have done the former well enough.