In my Purposeful Conception Course: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy, we spend a day thinking about what kind of parents we want to be. I wanted to share my personal list (it’s really just a rough draft brainstorm) with all of you to get your thoughts (and, by the way, the attributes are not in any sort of prioritized order):

I read an article in Mothering Magazine about a mother who decided to nurture her daughter’s interest in fairies by responding to her daughter’s letters to fairies, from the perspective of a fairy.

When the daughter learned the truth several years later, she felt completely betrayed and cried and cried.

I remember having a similar reaction when I discovered my old teeth in my mother’s underwear drawer. I remember finding those little packages of tissue and tooth that I so carefully prepared for the tooth fairy. When I found those packets, I immediately made the logical leap that my mother

Matt and I finished writing our Family Mission Statement together. We need to figure out where to put it, so we revisit it quite frequently. If we don’t return to it often, it’s likely to become a “dead document.”

Hmm…maybe I could use this DIY Ketubah kit from the lovely Tsilli to make a really pretty document that we frame?

Or perhaps I could hire someone on Etsy to design a cool poster for us?

Or maybe I could buy a print that Matt and I already agree is cool and somehow incorporate the text into it (like the print featured above)?

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