My prayers and journal are becoming more and more consumed with how I can help my children to reach their dreams, and fulfill their God-given potential and purpose on this earth, and less about my own personal struggles and projects. I have heard many times that having a clear mission statement that you recite, and daily consider will change you, yet I am still amazed as I feel it happen to me. The Lord is slowly and surely guiding me to become to become a Powerful, Purposeful, and Nurturing Mother.
Kate - My courageous 15 year old, has big dreams for her future - but her current project is to compete in the Shakespeare Festival with a dance and ballroom open at Gem State. For both of these she needs private lessons with a choreographer, and costumes. This is expensive. So she has devised a plan to earn the money. She is going to put on some fabulous summer camps for children. She has held Fairy Ettiquette camps in the past to earn money for lessons and had a lot of fun, and great responses from the girls and their mothers. She will be holding these again this summer, but also branching out to hold a Sons and Daughters of Freedom camp. She loves America, our Constitution and the God-inspired, liberty driven men and women who established our country and gave us the blessed, prosperous lives we know. She wants to share that love and teach about the requirements and costs of keeping that liberty. She is creating a plan using games, stories, and music to teach the principles of freedom to 8-12 year olds.
I love her ideas, and support them whole-heartedly, if with some fear and trepidation over the amount of work ahead. I know she will learn tons from the experience and bless those who participate with a wonderful experience too!
Cassidy has decided she loves violin and wants to buy her own. So she is working and saving to earn money for this. She also wants to do a study group this coming school year focusing on American History and Permaculture Gardening. She hopes to find a small, dedicated group of peers to join her on her journey.
Wyatt's current dream is to create a new breed of dog. Random? He is planning to accomplish his Bear before the new Cub Scout program is released - no small amount of work. He also is determined that he needs more boy time to get out all his energy. He has a fabulous math brain like his father and the same thoughtful, tender heart.
Mille is my fragile child, for lack of a better word. She has fragile feelings and is very socially aware despite her inability to show it. This comes out in all kinds of struggles - toileting accidents, eating, getting dressed, going to therapy and simply being included or not in the activities of her friends and cousins. She is physically a tiny thing, and is calmer, more still and cautious than most children. Mille has an amazing light within her. It usually is shining so that others quickly come to love her warm smile, contagious giggle, and eagerness to love and be loved. She often is on my mind, wondering how I can help her to learn to function in this world, to see her own strengths and fight through her weaknesses. To keep her innocence safe and her heart protected because it seems extra pure and extra sensitive to damage from the harshness of this world.
Janey is physically strong and robust. She is energetic and spunky, determined and quick to pick things up. She loves hugs and books, food and outside. She needs constant watching and guiding to avoid the appearance of a tornado having whirled its way through our house. She is my
"Beautiful baby, beautiful child.
Gentle and maybe just a little bit wild."
I love being a mother. It is heart-wrenching, challenging, thrilling. I will never reach a plateau or boredom because I can always become infinitely better. It is my ground for becoming.
Kate - My courageous 15 year old, has big dreams for her future - but her current project is to compete in the Shakespeare Festival with a dance and ballroom open at Gem State. For both of these she needs private lessons with a choreographer, and costumes. This is expensive. So she has devised a plan to earn the money. She is going to put on some fabulous summer camps for children. She has held Fairy Ettiquette camps in the past to earn money for lessons and had a lot of fun, and great responses from the girls and their mothers. She will be holding these again this summer, but also branching out to hold a Sons and Daughters of Freedom camp. She loves America, our Constitution and the God-inspired, liberty driven men and women who established our country and gave us the blessed, prosperous lives we know. She wants to share that love and teach about the requirements and costs of keeping that liberty. She is creating a plan using games, stories, and music to teach the principles of freedom to 8-12 year olds.
I love her ideas, and support them whole-heartedly, if with some fear and trepidation over the amount of work ahead. I know she will learn tons from the experience and bless those who participate with a wonderful experience too!
Cassidy has decided she loves violin and wants to buy her own. So she is working and saving to earn money for this. She also wants to do a study group this coming school year focusing on American History and Permaculture Gardening. She hopes to find a small, dedicated group of peers to join her on her journey.
Wyatt's current dream is to create a new breed of dog. Random? He is planning to accomplish his Bear before the new Cub Scout program is released - no small amount of work. He also is determined that he needs more boy time to get out all his energy. He has a fabulous math brain like his father and the same thoughtful, tender heart.
Mille is my fragile child, for lack of a better word. She has fragile feelings and is very socially aware despite her inability to show it. This comes out in all kinds of struggles - toileting accidents, eating, getting dressed, going to therapy and simply being included or not in the activities of her friends and cousins. She is physically a tiny thing, and is calmer, more still and cautious than most children. Mille has an amazing light within her. It usually is shining so that others quickly come to love her warm smile, contagious giggle, and eagerness to love and be loved. She often is on my mind, wondering how I can help her to learn to function in this world, to see her own strengths and fight through her weaknesses. To keep her innocence safe and her heart protected because it seems extra pure and extra sensitive to damage from the harshness of this world.
Janey is physically strong and robust. She is energetic and spunky, determined and quick to pick things up. She loves hugs and books, food and outside. She needs constant watching and guiding to avoid the appearance of a tornado having whirled its way through our house. She is my
"Beautiful baby, beautiful child.
Gentle and maybe just a little bit wild."
I love being a mother. It is heart-wrenching, challenging, thrilling. I will never reach a plateau or boredom because I can always become infinitely better. It is my ground for becoming.
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