1.31.18

1/31/18||    Reminders.

1.30.18

1.30.18 ||  Sit.  and Shake.

1.29.18

1.29.18||  Class of 2025

1.28.18

1.28.18 ||  Sibling Love.....or is it two kids hunched over a screen watching a video outdoors?  I can't tell...

1.27.18

1.27.18 ||  Brotherly visits

1.26.18

1.26.18 ||Homecoming day

1.25.18

1.25.18 If there is one thing parenting has taught me it's that I can not take one single step FOR my kids.  With them, Yes. For them, no.

1.24.18

1.24.17  Ice, Ice everywhere

Remembering

1.23.18||  Remembering a beautiful soul and a life well lived.....Let all that you do be done in Love. -I Cor 16:4

1.23.18

1.23.18||  Does the whole growing up thing become more real when the first college advertising pamphlet arrives?  

1.22.18

1.22.18 || I hope you take with you always the child inside you that loves to build a snowman.

1.21.18

1.21.18 Good times at an old stomping ground,

1.20.17

1.20.18 || Namaste to 1:1 Girl time

1.19.18

1.19.18 || "It's the Drummers' job to look Cool"  -LP

1.18.18

1.18.18||  Knee deep in midterm week

1.17.18

1.17.18 Snow day "Lessons"

1.16.18

1.16.18  Hydration station

1.15.18

1.15.18  The rear view

1.14.18

1.14.18 the big games.

1.13.18

1.13.18  How to raise a successful child......internet search for all the things.....

Wake them gently each morning

Make them wake themselves by Middle School

Send them to school at age 7

Send them to School at age 5

Homeschool

Unschool

Religious School

Be kind and supportive

Let them fail

Keep an eye on their stress level

Don't be a helicopter parent

Don't overschedule

They need to be well-rounded

Don't drop off forgotten items at school

Love them unconditionally

Be involved in their school

Let them handle school themselves

put them in a school that teaches a love for learning and creative play

put them in a school that challenges with more sooner, faster and harder.

Stay home with your kids

Be a working parent

Have family dinners and lots of downtime

Get them involved in a sport or music

teach them to relax and meditate

make them do chores or get a job

Employ collaborative problem solving

Employ a strict reward/punishment system

Teach them social skills and let them handle their own problems

Watch out for bullying

Give them access to technology

Put strict limits on technology

Read to them each night

It's more important to do Math then read to them

Confused?

1.12.18

1.12.18||  Weekly chores

1.11.18

1.11.18||  SO much excitement about visiting day and the possibility of new Beginnings.  

1.10.18

1.10.18||  Bus stop Shenanigans

1.9.18

1.9.18 ||  Evening Physics Study session 

1.8.18

1.8.18||  Weekly Fill up

1.7.18

1.7.18||  Baby it's cold outside (but I'm still gonna ski!)

1.6.18

1.6.18||  Weekly food prep.  (3 soups!)

1.4.18

1.4.18||  They called it the Snowmageddon

1.3.18

1.3.18  || Snow Day tomorrow!

Hello 2018.

You may not always like your story. It will have Happy Parts, and plenty of sad parts....miserable even....but YOU are not your story.  This is a significant distinction.....we don't always have control of our own storyline......we live it, make our choices and become a product of your story, there fore the power we have is in who we become as a result of what we experience.  Good or bad, happy or sad.  that's the part we get to decide.  Our Character evolves in each chapter.  Once we realize we are bigger than our story-we can understand the value in passing through both the most rewarding and fulfilling parts, as well as the most heartbreaking, devastating parts.  I believe it's so important to tell your story.  Find a way that makes sense to you, and document your amazing life.  start now.  start again....it matters.
-Heidi Swapp

Hello 2018.  I originally started writing on the internet to look for joy amongst the hard stuff of raising three littles, one with special needs.  Now, we are 43, 43, 15,13 and 10 (plus a almost 2 year old pooch).  I took a year plus hiatus.  I'm not sure why, I love writing and pictures and I look back at these photos and words, I can not put a feeling on how glad I have them here.  Such a representation to the joy I looked for and felt on those days, the gratitude, all the cool things we did over all those years.  Life is different now, we are older, more messy, more complicated, and as it turns out there are more special needs.  But, the simple joy is so much still there.    So, I'm looking to TRY to do a Project 365 2018, maybe not always with words or not always with photos, and always with the respect and permission of the now big people I'm writing about (it may be a lot more just about me!)....  but I am going to do this!  So here's to starting again.  May this be the most growing year yet.


Love,
C