"Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."
-Mary Oliver
There's no better way to reintroduce myself to the blogging world
than with these beautiful words from Mary Oliver. Slowly getting back to that
place where I feel safe and loved enough to write my words
and throw them out there into the world is one of my new year's resolutions.
This year, my focus is love. It's kindness. Joy. Grace...
After the rough patch I hit towards the end of last year, the positive focus feels good.
It feels nice. Right.
I'm excited and happy to be "back", so to speak.
I've given myself a break and am not going to try to
fill in the 3 months of blogging that I missed.
I'm just going to start fresh...
So, let's catch up!
My babies have been growing like crazy.
It's a little bit scary to me how big they've gotten.
Since school started in September weve had a really hard time with Charlie in school.
He's a clown. Likes to make all the kids laugh.
That's cool with me usually. But when the teacher tells me it's going
to start affecting his learning if things dont change, it upsets me. A lot.
We went through a lot of different methods to try to change his behavior.
-Take things he loves away
-Rewards for good behavior
-Threats of changing schools
Nothing worked for months!
It threw me. I didn't know how to handle it.
We had a break through during winter break.
I changed our routine at home and created a poster board schedule.
He hates it (says so 3 times per day) but I think he secretly loves it.
I changed things in my life that were disruptive and I hadn't even been aware of it.
That just goes to show that even when you don't think they're noticing
or paying any attention, THEY ARE. They always are.
And when things aren't right with mama, everything's affected.
It's really made me aware of what I do, what I say, how I behave....
I opened a dialogue between my boy and me.
The change has been amazing. He's a new boy.
He's still the same big-hearted, sensitive and funny kid he always was.
The difference is he gets less frustrated and talks more to me.
We recently had a girls day. It was rainy and cozy.
The girls have been getting along really well. They play together...
Really girly things like tea party and "family"
...where Kate is the mommy and calls her daughter, Ella, "sweetie"...
which is funny to me because I don't think I have ever uttered the word sweetie.
They especially like to sing. One song right now, in particular.
"Love You Like a Love Song" by Selena Gomez
It really is the most adorable thing you've ever heard.
Ella loves Kate. A lot. You can see in her eyes that she looks up to her already.
This face makes anything better...
But of course Ella has to have her moment.
As a special treat, we let the girls paint a plate however they wanted to at Color Me Mine...
Kate adored this project. She shy-smiled her way through the entire experience.
Baby girl designed and drew the entire plate all by herself. Quite impressive, if you ask me.
She did everything so meticulously. Every color chosen with great care.
Miss Ella on the other hand, she has no regard for lines.
She paints her own picture. The picture J drew had very little bearing on where
she wanted to paint. I kind of like that about her.
The more paint she could pile on, the better.
They're very much excited to go pick it up on Monday.
We had to leave the plates there in order for them to bake in the kiln.
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The little one's hair is ALWAYS in her eyes. Always.
It drives me nuts.
She doesn't even care. She doesn't even bother to brush it out of her eyes anymore.
She just kind of looks through her bangs at us.
I decided it was time for a change.
We woke her from a nap before the cut so she wanted nothing to do with it.
Wouldn't even sit in the firetruck chair.
I had to hold her on my lap for the entire cut.
I wasn't sure I liked it at first.
Change. We all know I hate change.
But the next morning when I was awaken by a very flustered Kate,
because Ella had painted all over the wall, the couch and herself...
I decided that her new haircut fit her mischievous personality PERFECTLY.
The kid's lucky she is so flippin' adorable. I wanted to kill her that morning!
It's really nice to be back.
I look forward to having this space to clear my head and connect again.
Happy Sunday, friends.
Whatever you do today, do it with grace.
There's no better way to reintroduce myself to the blogging world
than with these beautiful words from Mary Oliver. Slowly getting back to that
place where I feel safe and loved enough to write my words
and throw them out there into the world is one of my new year's resolutions.
This year, my focus is love. It's kindness. Joy. Grace...
After the rough patch I hit towards the end of last year, the positive focus feels good.
It feels nice. Right.
I'm excited and happy to be "back", so to speak.
I've given myself a break and am not going to try to
fill in the 3 months of blogging that I missed.
I'm just going to start fresh...
So, let's catch up!
My babies have been growing like crazy.
It's a little bit scary to me how big they've gotten.
Since school started in September weve had a really hard time with Charlie in school.
He's a clown. Likes to make all the kids laugh.
That's cool with me usually. But when the teacher tells me it's going
to start affecting his learning if things dont change, it upsets me. A lot.
We went through a lot of different methods to try to change his behavior.
-Take things he loves away
-Rewards for good behavior
-Threats of changing schools
Nothing worked for months!
It threw me. I didn't know how to handle it.
We had a break through during winter break.
I changed our routine at home and created a poster board schedule.
He hates it (says so 3 times per day) but I think he secretly loves it.
I changed things in my life that were disruptive and I hadn't even been aware of it.
That just goes to show that even when you don't think they're noticing
or paying any attention, THEY ARE. They always are.
And when things aren't right with mama, everything's affected.
It's really made me aware of what I do, what I say, how I behave....
I opened a dialogue between my boy and me.
The change has been amazing. He's a new boy.
He's still the same big-hearted, sensitive and funny kid he always was.
The difference is he gets less frustrated and talks more to me.
We recently had a girls day. It was rainy and cozy.
The girls have been getting along really well. They play together...
Really girly things like tea party and "family"
...where Kate is the mommy and calls her daughter, Ella, "sweetie"...
which is funny to me because I don't think I have ever uttered the word sweetie.
They especially like to sing. One song right now, in particular.
"Love You Like a Love Song" by Selena Gomez
It really is the most adorable thing you've ever heard.
Ella loves Kate. A lot. You can see in her eyes that she looks up to her already.
This face makes anything better...
As a special treat, we let the girls paint a plate however they wanted to at Color Me Mine...
Kate adored this project. She shy-smiled her way through the entire experience.
Baby girl designed and drew the entire plate all by herself. Quite impressive, if you ask me.
She did everything so meticulously. Every color chosen with great care.
Miss Ella on the other hand, she has no regard for lines.
She paints her own picture. The picture J drew had very little bearing on where
she wanted to paint. I kind of like that about her.
The more paint she could pile on, the better.
They're very much excited to go pick it up on Monday.
We had to leave the plates there in order for them to bake in the kiln.
_________________________________
The little one's hair is ALWAYS in her eyes. Always.
It drives me nuts.
She doesn't even care. She doesn't even bother to brush it out of her eyes anymore.
She just kind of looks through her bangs at us.
I decided it was time for a change.
We woke her from a nap before the cut so she wanted nothing to do with it.
Wouldn't even sit in the firetruck chair.
I had to hold her on my lap for the entire cut.
I wasn't sure I liked it at first.
Change. We all know I hate change.
But the next morning when I was awaken by a very flustered Kate,
because Ella had painted all over the wall, the couch and herself...
I decided that her new haircut fit her mischievous personality PERFECTLY.
The kid's lucky she is so flippin' adorable. I wanted to kill her that morning!
It's really nice to be back.
I look forward to having this space to clear my head and connect again.
Happy Sunday, friends.
Whatever you do today, do it with grace.
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