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Find and Follow Your Passion
This comment from One and Doll deserves to be pulled out and spotlighted. Simply lovely.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in Love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.-Pedro Arrupe, SJ
P.S. Thanks to Grandma Cotner for the early Christmas present so a little boy could follow his passion. We bought this bike and pulled all the… Read More -
Enter to Win a Dream Do Planning Consultation
During this round of Purposeful Conception, one of the participants was talking about making a career change in order to create more space in her life for pregnancy and parenthood. She mentioned that she might want to start an in-home childcare program, but she finds the idea “completely terrifying.”My mind flooded with excitement about the possibility of helping her translate this big, audacious goal into smaller, manageable action steps. I think I might really enjoy helping people make their big dreams a reality.I decided to create a contest to give away one free Dream Do Project Planning Consultation to see if I’m actually good at this kind… Read More -
Balancing Henry’s Needs with My Own
Being a parent is tough in the sense that it means you are responsible for ensuring that another human’s needs are taken care of every single minute of every single day. That responsibility is a heavy burden to bear (while also being an immense blessing, of course).… Read MoreIt’s important to me to keep my own needs at the forefront of my mind, so I continue to live a joyful, vibrant, and healthy life. If I take care of all of Henry’s needs at the expense of all of my own needs, then I will not be a very good mother for Henry. It’s a delicate balance, for sure.
Every once
