Looking through photos, I see the one of you grinning up at me with your big brothers. You all look so tiny! My breath feels short when I see that photo and realize it was two years ago now. Only two years ago and, WOW TWO YEARS AGO ALREADY! I kind of thought it would last forever. Oh, not [...]Continue Reading
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Journal Prompts About Getting Focused – Fill Your Cup
What's the most difficult thing about connecting with your kids? I ask this in every welcome letter when people sign up for the Creative With Kids newsletter, and a response like this is very common: "When my mind is elsewhere (usually at work) and I have trouble focusing and being in the [...]Continue Reading
Ban Busy Journal Prompts
Fill Your Cup is a journal prompt series that encourages moms to take care of themselves by taking a short amount of time to journal during the week. The questions are meant to help you take a look inside and be intentional about your week to come. Respond to whichever speaks to you by writing, [...]Continue Reading
It’s Not Just About the Legos
We stood in my friend’s kitchen, chatting and drinking coffee, when one of her sons walked in and said, “Hey look what I made!” We politely listened and ‘oohed’ and ‘ahhed’ as he gave a detailed description of the Lego spaceship with all possible luxuries. We’d been chatting quite a while, as moms [...]Continue Reading
Stop! 4 Journal Prompts to Get You to Take a Breath
What would happen if we just stopped for moment? This is a story of a friend of mine told me, and it continues to make an impact on how I live my life. She wished she had stopped... She sat with her wife, looking through family photos from the year before. They had been through a lot [...]Continue Reading
10 Tips to Creating Holiday Traditions Your Family REALLY Loves
Today we're taking a look at the holiday traditions we're making with our families. We want to create holiday traditions our family really loves. Whether bad or good, the holidays traditions of our childhood usually hold a wealth of memories. We might draw on these to create our own family's [...]Continue Reading
