Snuggle Your Kids Today

When our dear friend passed away last week, one of the first things that my sister said was "who is going to snuggle with the girls in the morning? S. snuggled with her girls every morning".

How many times do I wake up and start barking orders, or yelling that we are running late, or scolding that no one has gotten started on their chores... Imagine a world where my kids wake up and snuggle with me every morning.

I am not sure that will happen all the time, but it sure changes my perspective on my "wake-up attitude".

So, in honor of our dear friend, I am going to try to spend a little less time barking and a little more time snuggling.

Thanking God for the blessing of my children and being here to spend time with them.

Comments

  1. noreenMay 10, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    Hi Lori, I saw your blog link on Jen's Forever, For Always, No Matter What Blog and came over to say hello. I saw your comment that you start your day with your children praying the rosary. I think that's wonderful!

    I have one son and we don't do that even though I would like to. I pray the rosary almost daily and I take my son to pray the rosary on Monday nights at our church during Eucharistic Adoration.

    I should be doing more though... you've inspired me!

    ReplyDelete
  2. LaurieMay 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM

    Thanks for your kind comment, Noreen. I should go back and qualify that we start our *school day* with our prayers and then our read aloud. Sadly, I still manage to wake up in drill sergeant mode. ;) Fortunately, I have wonderful examples IRL and online of moms who inspire me to do want to better. I am glad I could pass some of that on.

    ReplyDelete
  3. noreenMay 11, 2011 at 7:47 AM

    I know! The internet can be a blessing to us mothers who are striving to walk with God. We need the stories of struggles and triumph... it makes us human!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Our Morning Time

Image
Look at me writing 2 posts so close together!! So... I have loved listening to the podcasts on morning time called "Your Morning Basket". I have listened to all of them. Very inspiring! They are all worthwhile to listen to, but I have to tell you that episode #2 with Andrew Pudewa is a game changer (in the homeschool sense). We have had our own variations on morning time in our house. When my girls were younger (they are now 31, 30, 28 and 22 years old), we had "seat work time" and "couch time". I'd say that couch time was our version of what is now being called morning time. For the most part, we read historical fiction, discussed history (I would either read from or discuss from a text), learned a little geography, read the bible, had prayer time, and had some pretty fun discussions. There was a transition when my now 28 year old became sort of a teachers helper for her younger sister. I remember working on art appreciation with her at the h...
Read more

Week in Review: February 1-5 2016

Image
Lots of baby care around here as the boys' big sister (our second daughter, Jessica) was having her fifth baby. It was a week full of sword fighting, cuddles, disney movies, books, and coloring. It's also been a week full of colds. The 2 year old twins had a cold, which I assume James caught from them (although every one in the world seems to have it, so not necessarily). The problem is that no matter how many times I caution the boys, who can resist cuddling with a sweet little toddler who does not feel well? I guess germs are meant to be shared. In the way of school, we have been in "keep up" mode. Paul's strongest focus is on his Dave Ramsey finance class (which I highly recommend), his Spanish class, and his economics course. http://www.daveramsey.com/store/search.ep?keyWords=homeschool http://www.livinglanguage.com/languagelab/spanish  (I cannot recommend this highly enough. The books and cds make it easy to open and go. Additionally, the...
Read more

Din-spiration Part 6

Image
This is sort of a lighthearted post, but I am going to start by saying that all those in Paris and the World are in my prayers. There are never words when something so unspeakable happens. As it has been pointed out, it happens far more often that we usually hear about in places that are more obscure to most of us. I'm going to continue with this planned post as most of us still have "normal life" to attend to and families to feed amidst this very stressful backdrop. To keep myself accountable, I was going to keep up posting about my crusade to eat at home. I have failed the last few weeks, but the resolve to eat at home has not! The great thing is that on the days when resolve wanes in me, my husband picks it up. He is often the one to encourage me that he can stop by and pick up an ingredient I forgot, or to step in and create a dish himself. He chose make us a Lasagna last week- for me, that is a more involved dinner than I will take on a week day. Rather than...
Read more