MOMSNOTES
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Your greatest obsticle YOU
“Another year has come and gone. Another year with its challenges, disappointments, heartaches, losses, missed opportunities, and unfulfilled outcomes. Here is a 3-step approach that you can utilise to not only get you into a better, more productive, and positive mindset, but keep you
moving forward throughout the year, towards where you WANT to go… a better version of YOU…”
Emotional Roller Coaster
“With the year winding to a close so fast that its making our heads spin, we can sit here and think of a very long list of emotions that we are feeling right now at this moment in time…”
Urgent vs important!
“Urgent vs important
It is dangerous to let what is urgent take precedence over what is important! I wonder what your experience is? It seems, for me, anything important is always less important if I’m not paying for it in some way…”
Lisa’s Story
“After six years of marriage, we had the privilege of parenting two wonderful
children. They brought such joy to our lives. We felt like there was space for one more though, and when Ronel, my wife, fell pregnant with our third child, we were elated…”
Fantastical fantasy
“I was watching a movie last night and the one-character states she will never allow her children to believe in Santa, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny as the disappointment would be too much when the children find out that’s all fantasy….”
Teaching our kids to give back
“During the Christmas holiday season there are a number of opportunities to give to the community and to those in need. This is a great time of year to teach children about the importance of giving back, which is a value they will have throughout their lives. We have put together some ways of introducing the concept to them…”
Finding the Balance
“Whether we like it or not, digital devices are very much a part of our lives. In so many ways they make our lives so much easier and have advanced communication by light years and while these devices can enhance learning and build community, they can also interfere with everything from sleep to creativity. But read on, it’s not all bad, there are quite a few positives to be gained from device time. We just have to find the balance…”
Two by Two
“The one thing you can count on when you are expecting twins is that your home life is going to change drasti¬cally. Yip, your house will resemble a day care facility and you may never get to make your bed! Everything is doubled! But that goes for the trials and the joys of having multiples…”
In this house we will laugh
“Perhaps you have found that the crazy speed at which your weeks are rocketing by and the stress of dailylife, has left your family feeling like you haven’t laughed in forever….”
Christmas Cover Competition
“WIN! Enter your baby in our Christmas COVER COMPETITION…”
The 3 R’s
“Teaching is one of those professions that seem to consume you, right from the moment that you stumble out of bed until you lay your head down at night. My last thoughts are those of lessons I intend to teach the following day and include fanciful images of pupils’ rapturous gazes as new nuggets of information are divulged to them. Their response to these can barely be contained, as they strain to stand up from behind their desks to catch my attention and ask for
“some more (knowledge), please…”
Spring Revival
“No artist, novice or expert, has the magic to be able to capture the many beauties of spring and display them on a canvas with the same impact as nature itself. Vain attempts can be nothing less than extraordinary but vain none-the-less…”
