The Zen Mama

Julianne with the guy who truly makes HER feel like a Zen Mama, her hubby, Harry! This illusive creature can be seen rolling into school pick up lines everywhere. She is punctual, together and just plain on it. She appears to calmly move through her sea of fellow frantic (and…in my case…usually late Mamas) with… [Continue Reading]

Julianne with the guy who truly makes HER feel like a Zen Mama, her hubby, Harry!

Let Your Freak Flag Fly!

You are a Mama. You are amazing. You have let something slip. Yourself. Before you were the queen of the minivan set; sporting insane schedules from soccer to cello; you had a medium. You expressed yourself. How? What did you do to let your freak flag fly? Did you sing in Karaoke bars? Did you… [Continue Reading]

Oh Yeah, Bring on the Mud AND the Rope Climb

The Power Of The Letter P

I gave a lecture last night on Family & Child Safety 101 and in a nut shell the talk centered on 3 P’s – Planning, Practicing and Participating. I gave it some thought, and while it is an easy ditty, pointed, simple, easy to remember, it really spills over into everything when you think about… [Continue Reading]

Maddie

Ease Your Stress with LESS

Have you started getting them already? Email’s from your Fall Coaches telling you of practices starting already, as in this week, for Fall Sports that your children will be shuttled too in the months ahead? Has the panic started? I know it has at my house! Yes, school starts in a few short weeks. As… [Continue Reading]

Enjoying Fall Color reduces stress, just try it!

Get Outside And PLAY

Has back to school night come and gone and all the amazing activities at your school has begun you and your family on a fast track of over committed misery? You too? Well…let me be the first to ask you to ease up off the throttle, remember that over committing yourself and your children (not… [Continue Reading]

Loving Being Outside

Your True Self – Who Is She?

  My reflection……. cue the music……. Talking Heads, David Byrne saying “How did I get here?”   When I became a stay at home mom I had high hopes of making many friends with other moms and truly enjoy being at home. Sadly I was delusional, I didn’t like it as much as I thought… [Continue Reading]

While the masks may be beautiful denying your true self is not

Pumped Up Kicks

Keeping your head, when others seem to have lost theirs. A lot of parenting is looking around. Since High School (maybe before really) we have taken our social ques by watching, emulating and creatively adjusting ourselves into what we think is appropriate. Some of us more than others, some of us less then others, but… [Continue Reading]

Turn the Light On

It is January and it is dark. We are a few weeks out from the onset of a new year, a new plan, a new whatever. Some are going strong, some have already given up and others are just sitting in the dark. Seriously. I know a little about this as for the last week… [Continue Reading]

Fast Acting Relief

“For fast acting relief, try slowing down” – Lilly Tomlin Face it, we all race too much. We have a billion gazillion things to do in a day and we rarely meet them all. Somehow our culture has trained us to believe that multitasking is effective and downright necessary to get our goals accomplished…and it… [Continue Reading]