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    Our Goals as a Family

    Recently, one of my friends linked to a reflection form on her Facebook page, and I love it. It comes from a blog called The Art of Simple.

    But it made me start freaking out. How am I supposed to set my own intentions for the year and set some with my partner and set some as a family?

    It’s something I totally want to do, but I can’t cram it all into my New Year Reflection Time. It’s too overwhelming.

    And then I was suddenly so grateful that I’ll be working through a Purposeful Parenthood course with others to set intentions about what kind of families we want

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    Join Us Now!


    Friends! Purposeful Parenthood is about to start! The first course will start on Monday, January 11, 2016. Do you want to join us? You can register here.
    I’m so eager to wrestle with important topics related to family within a community of like-minded individuals.  
    Over the course of four weeks, we will explore four different themes: 
    1. Vision: Starting with the End in Mind
    2. Environment: Preparing Our Space
    3. Time: Life Rhythms 
    4. Connection: Better Together
    At the start of the week, you will
    receive instructions about the Purposeful Parenthood Challenge for that
    week. For example, the challenge for the first week is to create a
    Family Mission Statement. The
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    Join Us!

    We are getting ready to start the next round of Purposeful Conception: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy on Monday! 
    Although I am on the other side of conception (I have a 15 month-old and a 3.5 year-old and my husband got a vasectomy), I still love talking about everything that surrounds conception, pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
    Just yesterday, I was talking with a pregnant friend/colleague who was explaining that she doesn’t feel like she’s “supposed” to feel in terms of the proverbial “maternal instinct.”
    I connected with another friend/colleague last week who got accidentally pregnant and didn’t know it until she had a miscarriage.
    Last weekend I
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