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Where is Happiness? | Finding Inspiration When Life is Hard
Where is happiness when life sucks? Looking for inspiration during challenging times is comforting. Being reminded of what happiness is during low periods of your journey can lift you up and bring clarity and focus. When life is busy and throwing you curve balls, dark clouds can often overshadow your journey in life. It is during those tough times that I look for inspiration. It isn’t always easy opening yourself to others, and sometimes you might be surrounded by a lot of negativity or stress. Finding ways to bring positive influence in your life will help bring clarity to what matters most for you, and renewed focus for achieving your…
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Imperfection is Beauty in Relationships | How To Build Strong Relationships
It’s Canada Day and it is a tradition now for me to post this picture on my social media. The maple leaf is a symbol of Canada, but in this picture, it is imperfect and torn, yet still beautiful. In many ways, this picture represents relationships with family and friends. Learning how to build strong relationships has more to do with accepting imperfection to find the beauty within each other. There is so much hate on social media and the news. People always quick to judge others. Are we bringing that mentality into our personal relationships too? It was this very reason that I try to shield myself from negativity…
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How Do I Simplify Life? | Defining it for a Seeking Simple Life Journey
What is Minimalism? Intentional Living? Mindfulness? Hygge? What is this journey of Seeking Simple Life? Do we need to define it with a name? How do I simplify life? There are so many popular terms floating around that is hard to make sense of which path you personally want to take. Minimalism, intentional living, mindfulness, hygge… People get hung up on a name and then try to follow that one path, but it may not be the path for you. What if your path to seeking a simple life didn’t fit in any one box? What if you found ways to improve your life, bit by bit, that didn’t exactly follow…
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5 Meal Planning Solutions | When Life is a Constant Whirlwind
What would you like for dinner? I don’t know. Whatever. Sound familiar? Do you get home from work, nothing is planned and there is no time for the store? Here are 5 meal planning solutions for busy moms. There were too many nights to count that I was in this same situation. You ask the kids what they want because you are too tired to think of something after a long workday. The kids respond with the ever so helpful. I don’t know. Whatever. Or my favorite response….food. I was tired of spending money on fast food and having the kids snack an hour later because they were still hungry.…
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3 Reasons to Stop Over-scheduling the Family | Seeking Simple Life
The pressure of being the best parent includes endless after-school activities for the kids. Let’s rethink parenting and stop over-scheduling the family. As young parents, we were told to keep the kids busy and they won’t be bored enough to look for trouble. This is true to some extent but overdoing it hurts the family. Like anything in life, there must be a balance to strive for and this balance is different for every child and every family. There are 5 red flags when you need to stop over-scheduling the family. The kids suddenly hate every after-school activity. They miss their friends from school and the neighborhood. The kids don’t know…
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Teaching Kids About True Friendship | The Day I Discovered Our Son Understood
Parenting is not easy and it is especially difficult watching your child feel rejection or pain over a lost friendship. Let’s be honest. Some kids are mean, hell there are mean adults out there too! Teaching kids about true friendship can be hard, especially when the lessons we have learned over the years can be difficult for your little one to understand. When you are a new parent you aren’t prepared for the challenges of navigating your child’s friendships. There seems to be endless drama around friendships when the kids are growing up and trying to figure out how to coach them through those friendship issues can be challenging. [click_to_tweet…
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Multitasking Affects Your Brain | The Price is Your Health, Career, and Relationships
Busy parents live with a constant bombardment of information and interruptions both at home and at work. Multitasking may seem like a good idea to try and get through everything but in the long-term, multitasking affects your brain, health, career, and relationships. A quick search on Google and you can find multiple articles discussing multitasking. There are various viewpoints on the topic that will support or deny it for various reasons. There are even discussions on whether women or men are better multi-taskers. In my opinion, after much research and personal experience there 8 side-effects to multitasking. All 8 side-effects point to long-term effects on our brain, health, career, and relationships. The price is simply…
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Things To Do In Summer | Summer Ideas When Camps are Full
School is almost out and you start planning fun activities for the kids. Panic sets in as you realize all of the “cool” camps that your kids would LOVE are full! Take a deep breath, it will be okay. This will completely change how you plan things to do in summer, even if summer camps are full. I’ve been there. School is coming to an end and the daycare wants to know what your plans are. Spring activities took over your life and you lost track of time. You thought you had lots of time until you started your google search for theme camps that your kids would LOVE. They…
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5 Ways to Stop Yelling at the Kids | Losing Your Shit Less Often
Dear Mom (that is tired of losing her shit), It’s going to be okay. The kids are saying “all you do is yell!”. You are tired and your nerves are shot. I’ve been there, trust me. I now use these 5 ways to stop yelling at the kids and lose my shit less often. We were raising 2 boys that loved to test their limits. They were boys through and through, especially the second child. He seemed to have no fear when it came to most things and illogical fear for others and was the reason there were 6 years between him and his little sister. By the time we…
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3 Simple Steps Helping Marriages | Growing a Strong Relationship
Marriage isn’t the constant passionate love that you see in the movies. It is a friendship and appreciation for each other that grows along with the love for one another. Life is busy and relationships can feel disconnected but there are 3 simple steps to help your marriage today. It’s our 25th wedding anniversary today and I’ve been reflecting on our relationship quite a bit over the last year. A part of me is in awe that it has been 25 years since we’ve been married. We were young when we got married and have had our struggles as we built our life together. Finding ways to stay connected will…
