Thriving is as Natural As Breathing Itself . . .

Thriving is as natural as breathing itself. By relaxing often and breathing deeply, your natural thriving is enhanced. Abraham-Hicks Thriving is as natural as breathing ~ I’m breathing that one in for a minute. I look at my life and I wonder if it’s true. I look at Hanna and know it must be.  I mean jeez ~ 3 years ago she was this little tiny 6 pound bundle ~ Now she is this beautiful blue eyed, blonde haired 26 lb individual. She thrives ~ it takes no effort on her part (or mine for that matter), she just thrives. She learns every day, she grows (emotionally and physically) every day and minus random temper tantrums she is in good spirits moving through this world. Me on the other hand ~ thriving takes work ~ it takes remembering ~ it takes work ~...

Thought It Was All About Dichotomy ~ Now I’m Not So Sure

Last night I was thinking about what it means to me to “live a life in balance”. I started thinking about the times I feel most in balance and when I feel most out of balance. I began to realize just how much the dichotomy of life plays a part in my feeling of balance. Image via Wikipedia Everything about life is a dichotomy ~ and as an “all or nothing” thinker I tend to swing from one end to the other. Fat ~ Skinny Happy ~ Mad Sacred ~ Mundane Scheduled ~ Free Flying Strict ~ Liberal holding a grudge ~ forgiving easily Love ~ hate self love ~ beating myself up and I could go on and on. It’s this dichotomy and my tendency to live in a state of either or that I believe leaves me in a life out of balance. It seems like a natural...

Oh Man . . . I’m Rubbing Off On My Toddler

I’ve mentioned in recent posts about my proclivity for self imposed rules. Well I think it’s rubbed off on Hanna. Image via Wikipedia We started using M&Ms for rewards in potty training.  It seems to work quite well, but here’s where she gets a little OCD about the whole thing. She will ONLY choose the SAME color M&Ms. (she gets 2 for pee and 4 for poop). So when she pees she has to have 2 of the same color M&Ms. (which is ok ~ we’ve been working on colors with this little game). When she gets 4 M&Ms she will ONLY accept 4  of the same color. We just went in for a 4 M&M trip (yay for her!!) and she started picking orange M&Ms and realized there was only 2 left, threw them back in the container and went with...

Elephant Ears Are Way Bigger Than a 3 Year Old ~ Wordless Wednesday

What I Miss About Not Being a Parent

I love being a parent, and I love my daughter, but there are some things I really miss from the time in my life before I was a parent. Here are the three that spring to mind without even thinking: 1. Silence. OMG how I miss silence. It seems even after she’s asleep Ryan (who’s now half deaf has the TV  volume up to 45, or the Wii is going at full blast, there just never seems to be silence anywhere anymore. Which is really crazy considering I live in the middle of nowhere and before I was a parent I used to go looking for noise. hmm. . . If I only knew then, what I know now. lol 2. Not having to give a play by play of my life. This is a biggie ~ and can someone please tell me when the “what are you doing” phase ends.  This drives me...