I will freely admit there are nights when I look back on my day and wonder, “What in the world did I get done today?” and say, “Almost nothing.” I have tried a few time management techniques over the years with sporadic success and a lot of failure. I have tried super strict schedules (i.e. rise […]
I love Christmas traditions! And my kids are finally starting to value them. They have already started to remind me of things that we did last year at Christmas time that they want to do again. There are lots of reasons that we have traditions: to remind us of something special, to feel close to family and […]
Kids make mistakes. And lots of those mistakes involve messes. An important part of learning from their mistakes (messes) is being able to fix them. For example: I came out of my room the other day to find that three of my children had colored on the dining room table with permanent marker. PERMANENT. MARKER. I cried. […]
