I burned the damn onions!

I burned the damn onions!

While cooking dinner tonight I burned the damn onions. Not because onions are hard to cook, but because I was trying to do too much at once. 

Sound familiar? 

While I was cooking the meat and heating up the veggies, I loaded the dishwasher and wiped down the counters. I can’t stand cooking in a cluttered kitchen. 

Everything was going well. 

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How I knew something was wrong

How I knew something was wrong

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. #mommabear

After 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. 

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Darcee Approved Pancakes

Darcee Approved Pancakes
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. 


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breakfast,

God let me down today!

God let me down today!
“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.) 

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pray, personal development, raising children, family, home, self-reflection,

Teaching Your Children the Art of Gratitude

Teaching Your Children the Art of Gratitude
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
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relationships, journal, writing, gratitude,
 
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