One Secret to Success for a Working Mom, Expand Your Village (Jack and Jill of America)

Jack and Jill of America member and her daughter Recently, I have become keenly aware that good kids are created by accident. They become good because someone made a concerted effort to pour positive things into them--things like, honor, discipline and respect for others. These qualities are taught through lessons and by observation. For that reason, I have been actively considering how to give my children more examples of people who embody those qualities.  Indeed, raising my children to become good people is my most important job.

Winter Solstice Lesson for Moms with Young Children

Celebrating life

Today is December 21st,  the Winter solstice.  It is a time to put old things away and start anew. As someone who called me today said, "It is a time to say goodbye to everything that hasn't been working for you and embrace what you want in your life!" 

When this person called I was elbow deep in cleaner scrubbing my tub, my kids were fighting and I just realized my three year old had pooped his pants. I had also picked up my husband's dirty clothes off of the floor for the umpteenth time. The combination of factors is probably why the deep thoughts and new age thinking hit me different. And, although most days I strive to be at my highest vibration and am able to receive such things, today, I rejected it from the pit of my soul and thought, "Why is it that most of the deep thinkers don't have young kids?!"

And while I realize that yesterday had significant cosmic significance, it also had practical significance too. I am a firm believer that your circumstances shouldn't define you. However, I also acknowledge that you aren't immune from them. Where you are at a given moment in time, what you're confronted with, and what your responsibilities are affect you. And, until they are doling out magic wands, you may not be able to say goodbye to the things not working for you. Still, I don't think you have to in order to be happy. Instead, identify how to be happy anyhow.

Winter Solstice Lesson for Moms with Young Children

My advice is this. Figure out what you need to do to weather the storms that may be a part of your reality.  Because here's the thing. If we could simply say goodbye to storms, they wouldn't make umbrellas. 



Comments

Unknown said…
Cheers to being able to pull an umbrella out if you need it. I agree.
Thank you for commenting! It's always nice to know that I am not alone in my thoughts!