Tag: family

April 28, 2020Activity, adventure, change, communication, cooking, Creativity, date, emotions, family, family time, feelings, Food, Health, Nutrition, foraging, learning, love, mental health, mother, patience, perseverance, positivity, relationship, self-care

We never change

Daf and I have never been particularly good at “date night”.  Early on the pressure to do something super original and fun […]

April 21, 2020attachment, attention, attention-seeking, attunement, basic need, communication, emotions, empathy, family, family time, feelings, grateful, mental health, mother, Parenting, perseverance, positivity, self-care

I will survive

A couple of weeks ago we had a zoom catch up with some lovely folk and heard about all the things those […]

April 15, 2020baking, basic need, breakfast, cereal, cooking, craft, Creativity, family, Food, Health, Nutrition, fruit, mental health, morning, mother, self-care, Uncategorized

Morning has broken

I thought today it might be nice to write something which can draw us away from the topic that seems to dominate […]

April 8, 2020Activity, adventure, birthday, change, Creativity, emotions, family, family time, grateful, indoor, mental health, mother, Parenting, patience, perseverance, positivity, self-care, socializing

Make a memory

So here we are again.  The days are long, the weeks even longer, but the moments are still there.  As we battle […]

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020adventure, anxiety, attachment, attention, attention-seeking, attunement, basic need, busyness, change, communication, community, Creativity, education, emotions, Exercise, family, family time, feelings, Hope, individuality, indoor, learning, mental health, mother, Parenting, patience, perseverance, play, positivity, self-care, Uncategorized

What I go to school for

To encourage you all, this week has been significantly better.  Having taken my own advice last week we have gotten off to […]

March 18, 2020communication, community, emotions, empathy, family, family time, feelings, Hope, love, mother, Parenting, patience, perseverance, positivity, self-care, socializing, stress, thankful

Hope

I don’t want to say much today.  I feel too much is being said.  So just a very little pause for thought: […]

March 4, 2020March 6, 2020adventure, attunement, change, communication, education, emotions, family, feelings, learning, Parenting, play, play therapy, positivity, Uncategorized

Learnin’ the game

Today I am sitting looking at the laptop and having what I’m going to call a “blogging blank”.  I feel that this […]

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020adoption, adoptive parent, attachment, basic need, emotions, empathy, family, feelings, individuality, love, love languages, mental health, mother, Parenting, perseverance, positivity, Uncategorized

The Power of Love

I know I’m a bit late in the month to be thinking about love, but I was struck by a somewhat saddening […]

February 14, 2020February 16, 2020basic need, busyness, child right, community, Exercise, family, family time, Food, Health, Nutrition, fun, mother, Outdoors, Parenting, park, perseverance, play, positivity, right, self-care, socializing, stress

Park Life

Before becoming a parent one of the things I used to resent was standing, freezing my butt off, with other mums in […]

February 5, 2020February 16, 2020attention, attention-seeking, attunement, busyness, change, consumer, Creativity, emotions, empathy, expression, family, family time, feelings, grateful, individuality, negativity, Parenting, patience, perseverance, positivity, self-care, thankful, tiredness, try

Be thankful

I feel confronted by a challenge at the moment, and one I have to admit, I don’t yet have the answer to.  […]