What a month it’s been!
First I want to tell you about my two guest posts. On Kind Over Matter, I wrote a post called “Allowing Yourself to Shine” about taming those negative judgements we make of ourselves and how we talk to ourselves.
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On Story of Mum, my post, “The Shame of Enough,” ran at the end of the month. It’s about feeling that our family is complete with one child, just the three of us.
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It was fun to see my writing on someone else’s site! Thanks to Amanda and Pippa.
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I’ve been doing a little writing again, which feels great, and A LOT of art. My favorite blog post from this month is A tale as old as time: Disney princess stereotypes. Read the comments to get some great ideas and insight into how we are raising our daughters.
In case you missed them, other favorites from the month are:
- A woman has 3 hearts – a post about Week 1 of Christy Tomlinson’s art journal workshop
- Simplifying my online persona – all about spending WAY too much time on the computer
- February’s Life Book recap as well as March’s and the creations I made for those
- The vision board I made for my word, “stillness”
- My thoughts on reading Christina Rosalie’s A Field Guide to Now: Notes on Mindfulness and Life in the Present Tense
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We are currently doing lots of mom/daughter play over here. Her preschool was closed for about 10 days for Passover break. This means that I spent time creating hopscotch courses with chalk, playing a lot of Shoots and Ladders and Uno, and watching my daughter play with her sweet friends. (And counting the days until she resumed school yesterday.)
What have you been up to lately?
It always amazes me how much creative, fun stuff you do with H when you two are at home together. You are so much better than me at spending quality play time together at home (no wonder she likes to stick so close to you all the time!!)! Keep up the awesome work, Momma.
Thank you, Becky. But… You should have seen me watching her try splatter painting. Watching the mess go from bad to worse was so hard for me!! The look on her face when I declared “Enough!” was so funny. Thank goodness for preschool.
I don’t think I could attempt splatter painting with the kids unless it was outside!!!
It’d be so fun to set up a huge canvas outside and just fling paint at it. Hmm. Maybe when the kids are older?
Trust me there is nothing wrong with having only one child by choice. I am much like you in needing quiet and space. My daughter has grown up to be a very mature and beautiful young woman, who has had many opportunities that she wouldn’t have had if we had had more children.
Sarah, I’m so glad you said that. There are definitely opportunities that my daughter has and will have that she probably wouldn’t have otherwise. Excellent point.