What do you do when you receive a gift? Do you say, “Oh, you shouldn’t have” or “Don’t waste your money on me”? Do you set it aside to open later? Or do you allow yourself to experience the real joy of receiving a gift?
Posts Tagged ‘respect’
Present time! Present Time! Open the present and see what’s inside!
Posted in Gifts, Mindset, tagged birthday gift, Christmas present, gifts, giving, handmade gift, homemade gift, perspective, present, respect, self-care, wisdom on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Present” Moments
Posted in Inspiration, tagged choices, choose, create, gifts, giving, inspiration, love, moms, perspective, present, relax, respect, wisdom on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this phrase today and it just screamed at me to blog about it. So I wonder, am I supposed to talk about what you’re choosing to do right now, being truly present in each moment, or the present we give?
Mrs. Butterworth vs. Hungry Jack
Posted in Family & Friends, tagged communication, family, goals, holiday, inspiration, love my holiday, perspective, respect, stress-relief, traditions, wisdom on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’re experiencing the battle of the syrup in our house. Everyone is taking sides and making lots of noise about which brand they want Dad to buy. But as I listened to the debate I made an interesting discovery… it isn’t just about the syrup.
Family – slaves, authority or love?
Posted in Family & Friends, tagged choices, choose, Christmas, Easter, family, giving, holiday, love my holiday, obligation, perspective, respect, Thanksgiving, traditions on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was wandering through StumblUpon and ran across this website http://bit.ly/dsy76u where they had the following note:
It is worth noting that the word family originally meant a band of slaves. Even after the word came to apply to people affiliated by blood and marriage, for many centuries the notion of family referred to authority relations rather than love ones. The sentimentalization of family life and female nurturing was historically and functionally linked to the emergence of competitive individualism and formal egalitarianism for men.
–Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were, pp. 43-44
At first I laughed and then I started to think about it. I know many people who feel like they are enslaved by their families, or who show up for family functions because an authority figure demands it.
Why moms shouldn’t know everything
Posted in Change it!, Family & Friends, Living, Stress-relief, tagged change, choices, choose, family, holiday, kids, moms, respect, respect yourself, time management on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was just reading Baby Blues in the comics. The kids are doing homework and asking Mom about the capital of Tanzania to which she replies, “I don’t know”. The kids are shocked because they thought Mom knew everything. At that moment Dad walks in with a litany of questions from “where are my car keys” to “what was I trying to remember” and, of course, Mom knows everything – or, as she says, all the important stuff.
I laughed because every mom knows just how true that is. We are the keepers of “everything” in our homes. And that means that when the holidays roll in we have all the regular stuff, all the holiday stuff, and all the overflow from everyone else’s holiday overwhelm to keep track of. Unfortunately it also means we get to be the keepers of the stress.
I’ve certainly ‘been there – done that’ and I even had to stop myself from doing it again just the other day. But did you hear that? I said I stopped myself from doing that the other day. And that’s the key – you can stop it.
Eye glasses and happier holidays
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, holiday, perspective, respect, wisdom on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was at the optometrist’s office yesterday while my daughter was choosing new eyeglass frames. I kept taking down frames that I thought she would like and she kept rejecting them. After this went on for a while I finally started asking questions. And when I listened I learned a lot.
