motherhood

Until I can get to Christmas recapping (hope everyone had a wonderful holiday), here I am to share one more take-away from my developmental psychology class because I really liked this video. (Actually, my sister shared this video clip with me a couple years before and I’ve thought of it…

Over the last few months I took a developmental psychology class online. I have always been so fascinated by the effect that an intentional mother can have on her children, and decided to get to work doing a little research as to how attachment in infants and toddlers affects their…

The temperature around here seems to be hovering in the 117 degree range. It is hot. So the other night we found ourselves in the pool. This wasn’t new to anyone else, these kids are in that thing practically every night, but this night I decided to join them, and…

I have been working hard on a little photo project lately. As I was sorting through pictures the other day I came across this one and it stopped me in my tracks: Even now as I look at it, I would give just about anything in the whole wide world…

Mother’s Day this time around was one I won’t soon forget, nestled in a hospital room with my Lucy, entrenched in the heat of mothering, trying my darnedest to harness my “inner-Linda”…the part of me that I search for often, that part of my mother who I hope runs through…

FIRST of all, goodness gracious, I felt so spoiled to be surrounded by so much kindness on my birthday. First and foremost from Dave who not only gathered all those thoughts but was determined enough to figure out how to blog it all. Including pictures! Wow! A little embarrassing on…

Our tree is growing a whole slew of gratitude. Started like this: And grew to this: And this…and still counting. I love having that thing in our “control center” (the kitchen) reminding us to be grateful. Also, these two asked me to be a guest on their podcast and we…

I’m excited to share some relationship ideas via the I Am Mom summit starting today.  (If you haven’t registered, get on over HERE to get yourself situated…).  I think my video will be up during the 1:00 hour today, Mountain Standard time…maybe near the end of the hour.  My parents…

At church a few weeks ago we sat behind a family with three wriggling young boys. They made me miss my babies, two sharing my lap at the same time, smashing Cheerios, occasionally letting out a wail.  Me helplessly wrestling to keep my skirt down. But those days for me…

As parents we are “trainers” in so many ways. We train our children to talk, to walk, to eat, to smile in the beginning. We train them to say “please” and “thank you,” to look adults in the eye, to build a tower with blocks, to take turns, to read,…