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There’s Always Room for One More
When I was a little girl, I remember laying on the bottom bunk in my bedroom and pushing my legs up against the top bunk as hard as I could to raise it up. While I strained my skinny little legs, I stared at a poster on my wall. It was one that had always been there for as long as I could remember. The poster was a picture of stuffed animals of various sorts sitting in a carboard box. The caption at the bottom read, “There’s Always Room For One More.” I thought about that saying a lot, lying on the bottom bunk, when I was young. I thought…
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5 Steps to Surviving Distance Learning
Surviving Distance Learning! Many children who do well naturally in school do NOT thrive under the current Distance Learning conditions! Moreover, not only are they isolated from their friends, but they are expected to pay attention for hours via internet. Add to this a child with learning disabilities, or who struggles with academics, and it can be a perfect storm for disaster! There is not a lot of stimulation from a flat screen concerning school work! How can you help keep them engaged, and save your sanity? Basically, if what you are currently doing isn’t working, or is not working well, consider changing tactics. In other words, a new approach…
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My Covid-19 Class of 2020 Kid
What’s Covid-19 Distance Learning?!? This Whole World Wide Covid-19 Virus Pandemic has been difficult for all of us. To say that life has been very strange, would an understatement. Did I think that it would still be going on? No, not at all. I assumed we would be back to normal before the end of June. Now we are well into July and life is still strange. What has been the most difficult for me? Getting my son Lane through the end of his Senior year of High School. He is my youngest child of 5, and I joke that this was my last time to complete high school, so…
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Journal-About Easter
Belated Easter Greetings, World! I Love Easter! April 12, 1980 Dear Journal, I have been very, very busy, and I guess writing in you has become less important lately. Hopefully that doesn’t make me a selfish person. I have just been busy! However, I am still 12 and on August 3rd, I will be 12 and a half! Today is my daddy’s birthday. He is so handsome. I love his black hair and blue eyes. He also has tan skin from always being outside. I love that he is a fast runner and that he wants me to keep running in track. My mom made him a carrot cake. Yuck!…
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Reverence Begins at Home
There Once was a Beautiful Dear Little Mommy, all dressed up so lovely for church in azure blue. In her arms she carried her sweet little son in a suit of a lighter hue. This Little Sweet Mommy was Single, and had not a man to help her wrangle this sweet little minx of a Darling Boy upon her wooden pew. So all through the meeting, I heard her soft voice as she shushed and she hushed, and she implored the sweet lad to be quiet, even if he could not be still! But that Beautiful Boy was only two you know, and he had no interest in behaving so.…
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Wasted Food & Relationships
“Food, Wonderful Food! Glorious Food!” Young Oliver Twist sang these lyrics. Where does all this glorious and wonderful food come from and why is so much being wasted? I recently sat down with a newly married Princess and gave her the following news: Up to 40% of food purchased from the village, Super Market or Store is wasted in the United States. That is 35 million tons of food worth approximately $165 billion dollars! An average family of four currently tosses out an estimated $2,200 worth of wasted food per year! It is ethically negligent, and causes massive economical losses as well as severe damage to the earth. Why is…
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Why Money Matters
Always we Ask: Why does Money Matter? Once Upon a time, Dave Ramsey wrote a book: the Total Money Makeover. In it, he gives us a very down to earth and sometimes even shockingly direct look at the ways we spend our money, how to save it, and the myths that we believe by Society at Large. Debt. It’s an embarrassing four-letter word. Many journey through high school graduation, immediately jump into the Student Loan Pool, swim through the waves of credit cards and get caught in the undertow of financial crisis. Suddenly found on a sinking ship, and then left stranded on an island, surrounded by the sea…
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The Miracle of the White Rose
The Miracle of the White Rose It was winter of 2014. It was cold and everything was gray outside. My mood was gray too. I was having a hard time keeping my chin up. It was just one of those days where depression was trying to slink its way back into my heart and mind, and pull me under. I thought that maybe some cold fresh air would help me to feel better, so I went outside. That was depressing too. All of my beautiful rose bushes were pokey sticks. The hydrangea plants were wet brown sticks coming out of the ground. Tall weeds and wild grass had helped itself…
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Family Consistency
Having a Schedule is Important for Kids, Princes and Princesses Having a schedule is important for kids. Like Poor Mother Hubbard, I have a lot of children. In fact, I have five children, and three still live at home. I have to be consistent, to keep our schedules going for everyone to participate in the family dynamic. This makes for less contention. My two youngest need consistency for their special needs, so they don’t get upset and fall apart when the unexpected happens. My kiddos have chores. It sounds sexist, but the girls mostly do inside chores, and the boys mostly do outside chores and tending to the animals. My…
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Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
Labels A few years ago, a 17 year old girl in our local high school was diagnosed with Situational Bipolar Disorder. It wasn’t a severe case, but still she suffered. Wouldn’t it have been better if her friends had been aware of the struggles concerning this disorder rather than alienate her? She had lost most of her friends, and struggled severely with social anxieties, and battled depression. Kandi was teased and ridiculed for exhibiting what the other teens think is “Hyper-active, immature, or annoying behavior.” She could not help it when she got into these phases. Kandi was not Hyper-active: she was in a state of mania. When in this…
A Romantic Blessed Mom of 5; Mental Health Advocate, with a Creative, Victorian Soul.
