- Wednesday, December 22, 2010
- Posted in books
We are marinating in the energy the Solstice brings.
Here is me, earlier today, lounging near a fire at the beach house during Cedar’s nap. Boho Boy made me a yerba mate with vanilla rice milk and agave nectar with whipped cream and peppermint bark sprinkles (YUM). I was writing a list of all of the parenting books you suggested on my previous post. I was only able to download Unconditional Parenting from iBook on my iPhone…so the rest we will search for at a bookstore around here. Raising Children, Raising Ourselves is on its way. All of this wisdom is transforming our hearts in beautiful ways. Our intuition always leads us with Cedar but gentle wisdom helps too. ; )
Oh, and how is this for adorable…
May the Solstice rain many droplets of peace and calm.
December 22, 2010
You are divine and that little one is just delectable. ENJOY, Sistah…you deserve this bliss. I have no kids, but I am sure you are a wonderful parent. Trust your inner voice. Don’t get too too cerebral. Treasure your time.
December 22, 2010
That is the yummiest holiday photo ever, in the firelight, with your bevvie. Cedar looks like he should be on a greeting card. Bliss. And of course you wield the iPhone hipsta or whatever whack aps better than anything I’ve ever seen.
Mmmmm is right. xo
December 22, 2010
That’s so great that you were able to dowload Unconditional Parenting!
I’m feeling all happy that you read my comment about that book
And I really needed something to be happy about today.
I am missing my family a lot. I’m in Canada and they are in Spain. I thought I would be able to go this Christmas but there’s some immigration paperwork holding me up and it makes me so sad…
many hugs
Piedad
December 22, 2010
I love love loveee how you are able to capture a mood with whatever camera you hold. Your pictures are so beautiful. Hoping you have a wonderful Christmas. xo
December 22, 2010
Everyday Blessing : The inner work of mindful parenting by John + Myla Kabat Zinn.
If you’ve never listened to John Kabat Zinn’s google talk and have an hour to kill, I highly recommend it ! It’son You Tube.
December 22, 2010
One Love. Peace and Calm. I love these photos. You are helping to sustain the holiday spirit when I am so far from home. Thank you for this. Boho Boy Rocks as does your iphone! That Mate looks awesome. Yumm! Vanilla! I am celebrating my 100th post today! Yay! Such a blessed feeling. Joy to the world. All are one…
December 22, 2010
Ummm I need the recipe to this incredible drink concoction, wow!!!
December 22, 2010
Wow, what adorable photos!! The one of Cedar is just too darn cute!! Loving the new photos off of the new phone!!
December 23, 2010
I had meant to leave a comment on your circus and therapy post as we had had a circus and therapy sort of day as well. The two parenting books that you mentioned in this post are my absolute favorite and transformed the way I feel about parenting and children and through practicing some of the things they mentioned have really changed me.
Anyway, on our circus and therapy day, I actually put my daughter in time out. It was the first time that I have ever done it and she s about to turn 3 – time outs have never felt good to me and we have been able to get along without them. Anytime we have a blowout like we did, I take some time afterward to deconstruct it and look at what went wrong, how I could have done things differently etc. When looking back on the time out, I came up with quite a few things that contributed to it, none of which involved my daughter 1) I was frustrated with my spouse because he had not been home much, too busy with winter activities 2) I was stressed out trying to complete a Christmas project 3) I was trying to direct her on what I wanted her to do verbally (As opposed to stopping what I was doing, being present and physically being by her and helping her to do what I needed her to do) 4) I lost my patience. So overall, the time out was all about me and not about her at all. Bad mama:( I’ll do better next time
Happy Holidays to you!
December 23, 2010
Looks divine. And that drink – how much yumminess in one cup ? Especially when made with such love.
Hope you enjoy the books – you’ve picked my two top tips there, so I really hope that they speak to you in the way they did to me. One point though – and I say this as something I do, rather than it being necessarily something you would – but don’t read so much, so fast that you get overwhelmed. They are big concepts and need lots of time to sink in – I found with Unconditional Parenting and Raising Kids, that what worked best was to read them, leave them aside for a month or so, marinate with them and then go back and read again, little bits at a time and really soak in the wisedom. Too much too fast just kind of fried my brain and made me feel like I was facing an impossible mountain to manage to be such a thoughtful parent (fortunately, I was proved wrong and now credit these two, and some others with utterly changing round how I parent and behave – although that’s not to say I am perfect far from it, but at least I know where and why I am going wrong when I do).