Call it a revisit

Call it a revisit if you must but someone reminded me of my love of months passed so in the wee hours of Sunday morning I wrote... stream of consciousness, rawness blogged and it felt good.  It's that crazy, young, silly feeling.  The wanting, the wooing.  It is a wordless feeling. The hoping, the pleading... The push and pull. The high, the crashing low. It is intimacy intoxicated by the unknowing. It is paradoxical yet safe. Shameless, without pretense, writing... Finally.

Crazy fun

In all honesty I think I have been exercising as often as I've been blogging lately so tonight, with the sun decidedly set and the children in deep slumber we escaped! Thanks to the presence of our lovely housemate we snuck out the back door. Husband on foot. Me on my bike. Actually me on my (tall) 11 year neighbours bike! We cat and moused our way about around the outside of the Parklands. There was something crazy, something spontaneous about the event that made it extra fulfilling... Not to mention that I managed to break a sweat.

The Calm without the storm

We have been back a week now and 2014 is shaping itself. Our week of birthdays has been a beautiful, enchanting and engaging (if sometimes chaotic ) celebration of these fabulous and full on little ladies. It was in the midst of this week I found myself looking for resources that might help me better meet their ever changing parenting needs.

In this search I stumbled upon this article and it was such a brilliant reminder of what i want to teach my kids through my parenting.

http://m.empoweringparents.com/Stop-Letting-Your-Childs-Behavior-Make-You-Crazy.php

The idea of calm parenting really resonates for me. However in many ways it is foreign to how I was parented and as a result opposite to my default settings. But I like it and I like how i feel when I am this kinda parent so I am reminding myself of these strategies and seeing some love results already.

Really?

I just logged on and my account told me quite irreverently that is has been 2 and a half months since I have posted. I'm so sorry.... Blogger, anyone who reads, creative self! Thankfully my mojo is returning as rapidly as I type.  I am not even sure how the time lapse occurred but it feels good to be back.  I guess it was just life that took over.  School holidays, road trips and now the girls birthdays have all featured high on the four kid family radar the last few months.  But with the new year I am embracing the joy I find in reflecting in print.  Despite this my time is short today as I am off to toast some lentil granola, bake the beginnings of a Peppa Pig cake and find a recipe for tofu burgers.  So... see you sooner rather than later.