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Category: Inspiration

  • Mindful Parenting

    Motherhood is a spiritual practice.  It is a time for reflection and learning, testing and patience, growth and challenge.  Every day, I strive to practice the twelve exercises below. Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting. Written by Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Try to imagine the world from your child’s point of view,…

  • bounce

  • surround yourself

  • The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith

    “The Paradoxical Commandments” were written by Kent M. Keith in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders.  They had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa’s children’s home in Calcutta, India.  More info here. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.…

  • in summer

     Ah yes, it’s officially summer.  Both kids are home now and the craziness has begun.  I have to admit, underneath the layers of exhaustion, sweat, sand, and fingerpaint – we are having a ball.  It seems as though we’ve already established a summer day routine at our house.  We all wake up bright and early,…