My best 'mother's day moment' from my kids was when Caden came home from preschool on friday with a little craft that he had made for me. He came right in the house and said "Happy Mother's Day Mom, I Love You! This is for you". Even if he was coached by his teacher, it was nice that he said it and that he wanted to say it. It reminded me of the 10 plus years that I worked in a daycare or had my home daycare and we made those crafts and the little cards with the poems and the handprints on it. Now I finally got one made for me!! Love it!
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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