Slurping Life

Dealing With A Parenting Disability

Hey, today I'm talking a about one of the many challenges our family has faced over the past few months...what we did in dealing with our parenting disability.

Come over to read and share.  You know, we have to support one another through this parenting gig.

Weekend Conversation

Wil, my earliest riser, and I were walking downstairs to breakfast this morning: 

"Mom, I've been thinking.  The perpetuation of this Santa myth thingy is a ploy by retailers to make lots of money."

Why he is thinking Christmas in February I haven't a clue, but maybe I'm good with my boys growing up.  Just maybe.

Are there any interesting conversations going on at your house this weekend?

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Discovering Your Child's Strengths

"When you look at a child, you can either see her strengths or her weaknesses. The choice is yours."

The above quote from the book, Your Child's Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers by Jenifer Fox, M.Ed., resonated with me.  As a home school family, we certainly strive to teach from the perspective of the strengths of our children, but I will have to admit that we often fall into the same old mindset of addressing the weaknesses.

Imagine waking up one day and having everyone you encounter understand the ways in which you are unique and extraordinary.  What if everyone viewed the things you did as needed contributions, and rather than looking for what is wrong with you, people pointed out what is right with you?

I would definitely like to live in that world.  Wouldn't you?

Read more of Discovering Your Child's Strengths.

Dance Like Nobody's Watching

...on your dirty kitchen floor...in your favorite jeans...and sock feet...dance...and mean it.

Life never meant for you to keep your feet, hips or mind still...move.  Something about the swaying and twisting of your body, the gliding of your feet makes the worries fade, the stress ease and the smile return...even if only for a few magical moments.  But I'm going to guess that the mood will hold you longer.

Somewhere between 6AM and 7AM Monday I danced after having not slept one single wink.  My singing along loudly with Darius on my iPod woke my love...and, of course, he came downstairs and danced, too.  We're still smiling.

My one word this month...yep...dance.  You gotta dance...promise you will.

Along the Bumpy Road

 

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.    ~~Alain de Botton

So keeping that in mind I'm beginning again...walking the bumpy but beautiful road of life with its twists and turns.  Still, it is not possible to forget the stones that trip one along the walk nor the unknowns around each bend waiting to steal life breath or breathe new vitality into the depth of being...the choice of which is ours.

Still, remembering the fantasia of light beckoning across the threshold of life to death...and the resplendent voice of love which gently whispered "I love you, mom" and halted my steps.

I'm once again planting, cultivating, nurturing...growing something beautiful along the bumpy road, and it is an amazing joy to have you join me.

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