"Trust yourself and your deepest instincts about your kids."
Trust is such a deep rooted word. Then to throw trusting your instincts about your kids and wow...really deep. There are days that its hard to see the forest through the trees, but I am holding onto what we feel is right with how we take care of and deal with things about our family. I feel like we are trying to create a wonderful family life and we are trying to cherish each and every moment.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Being a grown up
"Children operate from a place grownups wish to come back to but have lost in the daily grind of life."
Being a grown up is hard...being a child is hard (in their eyes, of course). There are definite times that I wish to be a child again, but mostly now I'm just enjoying to see things through my child's eyes. This is something that I am learning on a daily basis to do and sometimes it's hard and sometimes it's easy...here's to hoping that it gets easier on a daily basis to not get lost in the grind of life.
Being a grown up is hard...being a child is hard (in their eyes, of course). There are definite times that I wish to be a child again, but mostly now I'm just enjoying to see things through my child's eyes. This is something that I am learning on a daily basis to do and sometimes it's hard and sometimes it's easy...here's to hoping that it gets easier on a daily basis to not get lost in the grind of life.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Words...
"Words are important. They are building blocks of your child's spirit. Use them with care."
This is an interesting topic in a sense because there is a nursery rhyme that states "Sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never harm me." I think this is entirely false, words can hurt and sting and stay around for a really long time. I never want for Regan to feel like something we have said with our words will hurt her, but of course something will. Throughout this parental path we have taken, I make sure that even if she's upset with something that I have said or done, etc...that I say I love you. I want her to know more than anything that I love her so very much.
Today, and always, my wish for my family is to have love, lots and lots of love.
This is an interesting topic in a sense because there is a nursery rhyme that states "Sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never harm me." I think this is entirely false, words can hurt and sting and stay around for a really long time. I never want for Regan to feel like something we have said with our words will hurt her, but of course something will. Throughout this parental path we have taken, I make sure that even if she's upset with something that I have said or done, etc...that I say I love you. I want her to know more than anything that I love her so very much.
Today, and always, my wish for my family is to have love, lots and lots of love.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Starting Lent...
This year for lent I have decided to write for myself to learn more about being a spiritual parent or at least try harder ;) In our Sunday School class we have been using a website called spiritualparenting.com and it has a "thought for the day" that we use to kind of jump start our conversations and get our juices flowing to think about our kids and the Bible. I thought this would be a way for me to do it every day and just kind of see what kind of blogs it would lead to at that specific moment.
Blogger of course would not let me post this yesterday for some reason, so I'm just putting yesterday's start and today's together...
"Think of your yourself as part of your child's support team rather than her only lifeline."
I completely agree with this. I think that it's important for Regan to have many people in her life to help mold her into the person that she has become. I believe that we've thought about this from the beginning and maybe it's because she is without that father parental figure, but we knew from the beginning that we could find people that would fulfill that role and nurture her in that sense. I can think of handful of men in her life that she absolutely adores and they adore her in the same sense. We have tried to put Regan in situations where she would have adults that would help build her self-esteem and love her no matter what. She is currently in preschool, we go to church, and she is in dance class. In all 3 she has found niche and adults that can be her support team.
I think this quote can go towards the parents as well. I want Amanda to be my support team, but I don't want her to be my only "lifeline" to the real world. I have to admit that staying at home with Regan was a decision that I am so glad that I made because I get to see her grow and change every day, but at the same token it means that I do not have as much adult interaction as I once did at my job. It's hard for me to find those special friends that can be my outlet away from Amanda. I think everybody needs friends that they can hang out with without their wife...I know that I've struggled with that over the years, but have definitely gotten better with making friends and stretching myself to meet new people.
I am learning about myself everyday and hope that the things that I am teaching Regan will stick with her for a lifetime. "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." - Ephesians 4:2
Blogger of course would not let me post this yesterday for some reason, so I'm just putting yesterday's start and today's together...
"Think of your yourself as part of your child's support team rather than her only lifeline."
I completely agree with this. I think that it's important for Regan to have many people in her life to help mold her into the person that she has become. I believe that we've thought about this from the beginning and maybe it's because she is without that father parental figure, but we knew from the beginning that we could find people that would fulfill that role and nurture her in that sense. I can think of handful of men in her life that she absolutely adores and they adore her in the same sense. We have tried to put Regan in situations where she would have adults that would help build her self-esteem and love her no matter what. She is currently in preschool, we go to church, and she is in dance class. In all 3 she has found niche and adults that can be her support team.
I think this quote can go towards the parents as well. I want Amanda to be my support team, but I don't want her to be my only "lifeline" to the real world. I have to admit that staying at home with Regan was a decision that I am so glad that I made because I get to see her grow and change every day, but at the same token it means that I do not have as much adult interaction as I once did at my job. It's hard for me to find those special friends that can be my outlet away from Amanda. I think everybody needs friends that they can hang out with without their wife...I know that I've struggled with that over the years, but have definitely gotten better with making friends and stretching myself to meet new people.
I am learning about myself everyday and hope that the things that I am teaching Regan will stick with her for a lifetime. "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." - Ephesians 4:2
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