You have one baby and you think "Oh my goodness, I am so busy how can I get anything done?" You have another baby and then you think "Wow, how can I watch a toddler and a baby and clean the house and cook?" You have another kid or two and you start thinking "If I could just chain all the kids to the ...
Different Strokes for Different Folks
The world is full of unique people. Mothers are all different. Families are all different. What works for one family may not work for another family even if we are totally sure it would. If we all did the same thing then it would all be pretty boring really. Adults are a product of their childhood ...
It All Starts with You
The past few weeks leading up to our big fat 30 hour trip were very chaotic. We were waiting on citizenship papers, passports and I was learning about life with two toddlers and a newborn. We were on vacation mode and so our routine wasn't as structured as normal. Going from a good structure to a ...
What I learned on a 36 hour journey with lots of kids and even more bags
We very recently took a 30 hour journey from Florida to Australia. Two adults, a 2.5 year old, a 1.5 year old cutting his eye teeth, a 7 week old (and let's face it, he was the trip MVP), 9 bags, and a double stroller. As this drama was unfolding I realized it was a little bit like labor. In the ...
How can we teach children truths without scaring them?
This summer in Florida has been rainy. Lots of rain. Now that fall is here it is a lot sunnier, but the grass and weeds in the ditches and woods are high. Which means one bad thing. Snakes. I was eating lunch with my uncle, a farmer, last week and he said that when his children were in elementary ...
Nursing in public: to do or not to do
I have a horror story. It happened in real life back in my single backpacker days, and I'm not even sure how I chose to breastfeed after this. I was an innocent ole country girl who didn't "know nothin' bout birthin' no babies." It was Rome, Italy circa 2005 where I was seated by the window on a bus ...
Leadership
Disclosure: I am blogging on behalf of Compassion. This is part 2 of a 4 part seriesand is not a sponsored post. Read more about Compassion here. I think leadership is often misunderstood. Society thinks a leader is someone who talks loud, is charming and has good public speaking ...
What I learned during transition in childbirth {the near death experience}
You can prepare yourself for things. You can read, study, and write down your plan. You do all you can, and then you just get on with it. That's labor. Preparation and then real life. So here's what I learned during transition (the second stage of labor) in childbirth. It's what I like to ...
Dear Childhood Me
Disclosure: I am blogging on behalf of Compassion. This is not a sponsored post. Read more about Compassion here. Dear Younger Me, I just want to let you know a few things. Not to scare you, but to prepare you and enlarge you. Spoiler alert: you do turn out ...
Character Training: Kindness
Strong's concordance defines kindness (as it is used in Galatians 5:22 referring to a fruit of the spirit) as "moral goodness" and "integrity." Wiki defines it as "the act or state of being kind, being marked by good and charitable behavior, pleasant disposition and a concern for others." From my ...
