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Soul Parenting
Joaquin must have been at least three days old before I’d recovered enough from his arrival to give him a thorough once-over. As I scanned his wrinkled body, I was astounded by his completeness. “All I want is a healthy baby” is a common response to questions about whether your child is going to be a boy or a girl, but when I thought about the criteria for a healthy baby, I didn’t envision little…
Spacation Day – Mom-Me Time Revisited
In one of my first blogs, I wrote about the need for time with myself to regroup and recharge. It was especially important since I was a new, adoptive mom and my son, The Littlest E, was just over a year old. Now that my son is in preschool going half days two days a week, I have a few extra hours to myself. Usually, those hours are spent running errands, cooking, writing and doing…
Childhood Magic
Thanks to the success of Harry Potter, the world has been inundated with children flying around on brooms, black capes fluttering in the wind. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but the number of seven-year-olds waving wands around and proclaiming some unintelligible command seems to grow each Halloween. Witches, wizards, and sorcerers/sorceresses are not, of course, recent inventions. The concept that humans have the ability to transform experience beyond the norms of everyday perception is likely…
Holiday Traditions In A Two-Religion House
My last couple of blogs have focused on my two-year old son’s obsession with Santa Claus and experiencing the holiday season through his eyes. For some reason, I find Christmas magical. I don’t quite know what it is, the twinkling lights on Christmas trees and on many houses in our neighborhood, the festiveness of jolly old St. Nick, the joy and wonder in my son’s eyes when we speak of the holiday, or, perhaps it’s…
The Only Piece Of Parenting Advice You’ll Ever Need
If you’ve paid a visit to the parenting section of your local bookstore recently or perused any of the multitude of parenting blogs, forums, or websites in the virtual world, you know that there is no lack of expert opinion on every imaginable child-rearing topic. There are big bucks to be made targeting parents, and that may not be such a bad thing. Personally, I can’t think of a better place to circulate my money than…
LIFE IS ABOUT CONQUERING CHALLENGES
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to interact with some special people that I met. I remember speaking to this particular person about self-worth, values, love, and inner beauty. I remember challenging this person to look outside of the situation that they were living in and press the reset button to reestablish the rules of the relationship. Wow. Why would I say that? Well, we are often byproducts of our last relationships or…
Who’s Raising Whom?
Before actually becoming a father, I knew exactly what kind of dad I was going to be: fearless, loving, appropriately stern, but most of all, wise. I would impart the knowledge of the ages, pointing up to the stars as my children gazed in wonder at the fountain of information that poured forth from my lips. It took less than a week of being a dad for me to realize that it was going to…
Embracing Mediocrity
Four years ago, the cheerios and raisins pooled in the crevice between Joaquin’s car seat and the edge of the door would have been vacuumed up. The six-month old credit card bills would have been filed alphabetically before they even hit the office desk. That crusty streak of who-knows-what obscuring the window overlooking the front yard would be history, wiped up with a swift flick of a Windex-soaked rag. Not nowadays. I’m happy to be…
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