I can still remember so clearly the single most difficult day of being a mother (so far). I can remember this day so vividly and just thinking about it brings me right back. It was the day I made a decision to break the cycle of what I grew up around: impatience. Let me explain. On this day, Julia was about four months old and in the throws of the withdrawal process for her seizure medication she had been on…
Gratitude: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. Contentment: a state of happiness and satisfaction. Earlier this year when thinking about what I wanted my New Year’s Resolutions to be, I really wanted to focus on contentment. I think at some point I fell to the wayside with that but I’m finding my way back there now. I think contentment and gratitude really go hand in hand. Sometimes you have to stop and…
I want to share a memory with you about my grandmother. Her name was Norbina. I think I am comfortable saying she had the biggest influence on me in my formative years. To this day I still look up to her. She and my grandfather helped in raising myself, my older brother and older cousin while our parents were at work. I’ll never forget when my cousin started school. He was a year ahead of me so It was…