It’s day 25 of my 40 days yoga. Getting on my mat everyday gives me a more fresh, calm attitude in my days when I’m needed in four different directions by little people. It is also the best time I spend with baby girl, staring at her from all different perspectives and watching her grow. She found her toes […]
Archives for January 2016
Snow days
School went back this morning after two days off, just in time for me to go the store and restock on food essentials as we ready ourselves for the next wave of snow over the weekend. Here’s a few pics from our home. This was taken early in the day. As they headed out it […]
Snow day MEAT soups
I have a confession to make here before I go on. Ready? Breathe….. After 20 years…..I am no longer a vegetarian. It started with a homemade grilled hamburger from local beef when I was pregnant and anemic. It was so good I ate another. Then we bought a pig from our farmer, after it was […]
A self check in: You do enough
I’m a doer. I don’t like to stop until there is clarity around me, peace and harmony with belongings and good food in the kitchen to feed my family. I’m always full of ideas. Ones that I usually don’t have time to act on. There are crafts I want to make, new foods to bake […]
Baby Girl Baptism
Baby girl was baptized on Sunday at the presbyterian church where we are members. The sermon was about things in faith that turn our water into wine. I believed in my heart and soul that our family needed another baby to complete us. I fought for her. I believed in her before I knew she was […]
Twist and Breathe
Today is day 8 of my 40 days of yoga. Yesterday threw me for a loop and I didn’t make it on my mat. I found out in the morning my husband’s grandmother passed away. She was 91 and, had a good long life and died at home sitting in her favorite chair. Beyond the […]
Mindful Moments
While I practice my 30-day retreat for self-discipline from the book Making a Chance for Good, I am taking some time to slow down and evaluate how to do life with four kids. The commitments I’ve chosen to use while I evaluate my self-discipline are doing yoga everyday for 40 days, doing two nursing mediations a […]
40 days of yoga, day 4
On the days when Esther Kate and I stay home while the sisters are at school, I can work in a good yoga practice. It’s interrupted by nursing and settling her, and working around when she naps. This is all consistently, inconsistent. So my main goal of each day is literally to get on my mat and […]