My dh is an engineer turned IT guy. At least once a day we talk about the old IT adage, if something isn’t working, “Did you try turning it off and on again?” Then we smile and chuckle about it as our children roll their eyes at us.
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Leila Boukarim, of Sensitive and Extraordinary Kids, was kind enough to send me a copy of her children’s book, All Too Much for Oliver.
Now the holidays are winding down. Or maybe they’ve crashed and burned, and you are crawling out.
Either way, people are going back to work, and you are probably starting school back up again, or thinking about it.
Do any of you do anything special to wrap up one year and begin the next? I feel a need for closure on 2015 and a fresh start with a new year right now. Not that 2015 was so bad, just that I feel ready to move on. So I’m revisiting a few typical end of December traditions.
We had a nice, simple Christmas this year. I think we are aging out of some of the Christmas craziness of younger families, and I have to say I am quite thankful. …
How is everyone holding up? For many of you the holidays are beginning to reach a crescendo, with Christmas a few days away. Maybe others of you are done for the most part – enjoy watching the rest of us run around like crazy people. 😉
Do rainy days get you down? I have a love-hate relationship with them, I think.
I love a good thunderstorm, a really dense fog (as long as I don’t have to be out in either), and whoever invented “thundersnow” should get a medal. …
I was first introduced to the bucket theory through my daughters’ allergist. Basically, the body can be like a bucket, and too much exposure to even mild allergens, toxins, or pathogens fills that bucket, and leaves little room for the immune system to work…like a bucket that has become full from many drops over time.
Welcome to the third part in my Highly Sensitive Homeschooler series on surviving the holiday season.
The first two parts can be found here:
Surviving the Holidays Part 1 – The Homeschooling
Surviving the Holidays Part 2 – Know Your Lines
This third part will focus on something I know so many caring, sensitive moms have trouble with – self care.
Welcome to Surviving the Holidays as a Highly Sensitive Homeschooler.
Today I’d like to talk a bit about boundaries and how to keep them with style and grace.
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