Minding My Peas - Pursuing Mindfulness in Motherhood and Life

Changing With the Seasons

November 16, 2021 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

In what seems like the blink of an eye this year, summer has given way to fall, and fall is gently ebbing towards winter. The more time we spend outside, the more I notice this gentle trajectory of all living things, pushing through different cycles of growth. Families aren’t so…

Reading Challenge 2021 ~ October Update

November 11, 2021 Reading Challenge No Comments

Ten days late, but I’m here with my October reading update! This latter section of year has been rough on ye olde reading challenge, but I felt like I started to get my groove back in October. I made a lot of progress in the reading challenge books I was…

Reading Challenge 2021 – September Update

October 1, 2021 Reading Challenge Reading Life No Comments

School has started, we are finding our new groove (because no year is ever exactly the same!) And thank goodness. My reading challenge really took a beating in July and August between school planning and getting that first month under our belt. Yet, here we are and life goes on.…

Every Second Of A Life

September 21, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

As children, we expect adulthood to be an attainable moment that we simply arrive at, and then life begins. I certainly expected that I would feel like a real adult when I turned 18. And when that failed, supposed 21 might be the magic moment. But the reality is that…

Snap.

June 13, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

They come to me when I’m in the middle of packing for our camping trip. Close-cropped brown hair and bobbed sandy brown above chocolate eyes and gray-brown galaxy eyes. Wide chocolate eyes and sparkling galaxy eyes above radiant smiles. “Want to take a walk Mama? Want to go to the…

Nights Belong to Mamas

May 4, 2021 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Nighttime belongs to mamas. Those quiet, dark hours of solitude become familiar to us, from the first hours after a baby is laid in our arms, but not limited to those early days. Each new season of motherhood is welcomed by the chime of a night-time clock. We grow accustomed…

Reaching Roots

March 24, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Writing is something I have always done. I’ve always loved it, whether I’ve been writing mostly terrible fiction, or muddling my way through prose, or attempting children’s books. I still want to write. My mind is busy with half-glimpsed projects, and images that demand capture. I have never felt both…

2021 Reading Challenge: February Update

March 2, 2021 Reading Challenge No Comments

Did February fly by or what?! I cannot believe we’re starting into March already. The end of this month marks the first quarter of the year, and I’m very motivated to see good progress on my reading challenge. This year, the biggest change I’ve made in how I’m making sure…

Brushing Off The Dust

February 19, 2021 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Hello there, reader. It has been a while. I’ve been nursing the idea of coming back to regular blog posts, and trying to imagine a way to do it gracefully. In the end, there’s nothing for it but to sit down and start writing. It’s the only way to push…

2020 Reading Challenge – July and August

September 20, 2020 Reading Challenge No Comments

August was a month for the history books. Writing them, not reading them. We started school, traveled out of state for a wedding, and spent several days in the hospital finding out that our youngest child, Sieg, has Type 1 Diabetes. The last four weeks have been a legitimate blur.…