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Cookies for breakfast?

The in life. 🍁

Her eyes and that leg are too cute not to share. ❤️

My sunbathing beauty 🐾

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Beautiful girl

Posing for her photo shoot for

Like beautiful spring flowers!

My beautiful girl enjoying the sunshine...

Easy snack to make! Carrot cake bites . Thanks to for the recipe.

Too beautiful not to share. One of my yum!

Easy dinner. with a twist. Baked with Italian spices and a few splashes of Worcestershire! size

One of the best things I’ve learned.

Parenting is hard. It just is. And parenting tiny humans with big emotions while being a big human with big emotions ourselves can feel overwhelming, terrifying and just flat out impossible.
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So sometimes we unconsciously slip into ‘don’t rock the boat’ mode. We think, if we can just keep everyone calm we might just survive our children’s childhood without losing our minds or damaging our children too badly. So we shush and we redirect and we say inane things like, “Calm down!” and “You’re fine!” and “Stop overreacting!” and “You’re okay!” and just generally live life like emotions are some kind of whack-a-mole game that’s been set on fire and it’s our job to run around with wet towels and smack those big emotions down before we lose control. It’s exhausting. And it’s pointless.
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Here’s the thing, parents: Your children are still going to have all of those normal emotions. They’re just going to start hiding them from you. And without you as their safe place to run to when they’re overwhelmed or scared or sad or frustrated or hurt, they’re going to be left alone with deep wells of pain they don’t know how to process. That pain won’t go away on its own. Ever. Over time it will either begin to erupt in bouts of rage, seethe into lies and sneaky behaviors, fester until it develops into self-hatred and self-destructive behaviors, or settle deeply into a child’s heart and result in depression or anxiety or narcissism or extreme sensitivity or a rigidity that demands perfection from themselves and others or a hardened heart that never learns to give and receive love.
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Here’s a mantra to help you breathe through that moment of panic when your little one is upset and your first instinct is to shut them down. Memorize it. Or write it down. Or take a screen shot and make it your screensaver:
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“This is my child’s crisis, not mine.
Emotions are okay. They will pass.
I can weather the storm with them.
I can guide them gently back to calm.
I am their safe place.”
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Remember, tenderness is not weakness. And control isn’t the goal. Healthy humans are the goal. Love heals. Hugs help. They don’t have to go it alone.
-L.R.Knost

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🌻Peaceful parenting resources: http://t.co/T8goym3P6Z 🌻
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Fighting a rare, incurable cancer, but I'm still here!💞 L.R.

Just a few favorite familiar snacks with one new thing to try!

Science fun

Toddlers version of salad. All of his and one new thing to try.

Strawberries and cream oatmeal.. a childhood favorite. this one has no added sugars or other crap.

One of our favorite sprinkles and this week we are using

This is . only the best for Momma!

Ginamarie Coaches updated their business hours.

she’s happier everyday!

Welcome to the family. Thank you this girl was in the shelter for a year, babies came and gone and she was left sad and withering away. I knew I wanted to save a life. She’s going to have the best life ever, because my animals mean the world to me.

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Thank You for my Sunday Self Love Letter

Too delicious and easy for