Shell's Sentiments

In the last few minutes of the JV basketball game, Dante’s head hit the floor. Listening to him tell the story, he got body-slammed after a player from the other team got played out.  Sadly, the player decided to take his aggression out on Dante.The impact of his head hitting the floor was so loud- half the gym looked over at me to see how I would react. #mommabearAfter a second or two of laying on the floor, some of Dante’s teammates came and helped pull him back up. Needless to say, Dante was out for the remainder of the game. 

We have been on our own journey of swapping out prepackaged foods to food made from scratch. The hardest recipe for us to find up has been a pancake recipe. In all fairness, my children have all eaten at Arthea's Frankensteins and just regular old pancakes don't cut it.I made pancakes using this recipe and my youngest child ate FOUR pancakes. 

“God let me down today.” Those were the words that flew out of Darcee’s mouth, my seven-year-old daughter, as she stormed away from me and headed towards her room crying. I just stood there with a shocked look on my face. Then, I turned to my other daughter, Delilah, to verify if I heard her correctly. I asked Delilah- “Did she just say, God, Let me down today?” At that moment, Delilah and I both started laughing because that was precisely what she said. (We were not laughing at her comment, we were laughing that we both needed verification that we heard her right.) 

Teaching your children to be grateful can be challenging. Especially when they are young and want to give the same answer every single day.I am grateful for mommy, daddy, my home, my dog....etcWhether they do that because it is easy, or because they don't know how to search for things to be grateful for is the question. Asking them to begin looking pas

Grief has gotten a bad name. We often only associate the grief emotion when someone has passed away. However we technically grieve many different things. We just don't call it grieving, or we just ignore it all together. There are over 43 different types of grief aka loss, that we should be dealing with.

Find that courageous yes and Fight for that confident no!When I first read that statement I was screaming hell yes! But then I had to do a self check and wondered why I typically settle for the wishy washy yes. You know what I mean. The yes that you say when you really would rather say no, but for whatever reason you cave and say yes anyways. No more! Our time has come to own our decisions and roll with what we decide.

Do you force your children to give goodbye hugs, kisses, attention or love to people, EVEN after the child has expressed they do not want to? You can leave your comment at the end of this post. Now, to begin with my two older children I can say that I did encourage that behavior, even after they said no, showed no interest, made a huge fuss…. Whatever their reaction was. Mainly because I am from the South and that is just the way it has always been. (insert eye roll

WOW, the transformation one year makes when you are at the right table. Ya know that feeling where you aren't sure if where you are is where you are suppose to be? Like ya just don't "fit" in? And no clue why you feel that way?I have been there. And if we are being honest still have my days.  

Anger is a feeling. Typically anger indicates a build up of frustration. This frustration can come from multiple things. Not Being Seen Not Being Taken Serious Not Being Able To Speak Up For One's SelfNot Being Able To Communicate Your Needs The List could go on and on, but I feel like you get the picture. We also get angry at ourselves when we feel guilty.  When we feel the need for punishment. Sometimes we shift the focus and blame our actions on other people when in reality it was our fault to begin with.

Today is all about the next Oola Accelerator, passion.Here is the question that we want you to answer in today’s challenge:What is something that you are so passionate about that you would dedic