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....etc
Whether 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
Read more...I am grateful for mommy, daddy, my home, my dog....etc
Whether 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.
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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.
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