We have to eat and feed kids and families EVERY DAY, don’t we!?!? (Video below may help!)
If you take care of kids you know how many decisions have to be made EVERY DAY!
You have to think about ALL. THE. THINGS….. AHHHHH!……
*meals
*snacks
*dessert or special treats
*organic or not
*healthy or unhe
Read MoreI’m feeling the need to check in with you!! How are you doing!?!? Are you checking in with yourself each day?!? I”m concerned for you all!!
We are a few days into a semi-quarantined state. COVID19 has landed on our globe. Kids are going to doing virtual school and will be home full time. We aren’t going out.
We aren’t going to sports.
I have to do my own grocery shopping and not order them to be delivered. (torture, am I right?!?)
I can’t hire a babysitter.
This is just like the difficult and sometimes miserable old days when I was a stay at home mom.
Yep, I said it.
Read MoreI can remember a day back to pre 6th grade when I was standing in my childhood home kitchen, no one else was around.
I took two cookies from the pantry.
They were the generic white ones with the creme in the middle and I was about to head up to my room. Before I could make it to the stairs, I thought maybe I should dip the cookies in the Betty Crocker can of frosting in the pantry. You know, because cookies aren’t sweet enough on their own.
Read MoreAll of the holiday scents are everywhere this time of year! The pumpkin spices and gingerbread cookie candles are meant to make you feel so good preparing for the holiday season but do you notice you get a headache shortly after inhaling the delicious scents?
Read MoreA few years ago, I started using essential oils with the hope that there was a natural solution available to support my kids with their health.
Over the last four conventions, my hope increased. I learned all I could about the product. The way essential oils work to support our bodies naturally, the research dōTERRA’s founders focused on and our sourcing concepts.
Convention was a wealth of information that grew my hope.
Read MoreI don’t know that I’ll ever be able to forget the sound.
On the night before school started, my sweet 8-year-old was hysterically crying about not knowing what was happening to her body.
For the third time this summer, she was dealing with an anxiety attack. Just the thought of it alone brings me to tears.
She’s active.
She’s adventurous.
She loves learning.
She loves her friends even more.
So, why on earth was she on the brink of completely losing herself with worry over going back to school the next day?
Read MoreBack-to-School brings “all the things!”
From new shoes to new backpacks and new teachers to new friends.
From new schedules to new routines and new classrooms to new teachers.
And, as much as this “newness” can bring about all kinds of emotions for our kids, it can do the same for us, too, as their Mom!
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