It is bedtime. I have been catching up on blogs for almost two hours now! My eyes are blurry, my neck is stiff and I have an incredible amount of information flowing through my head. I'm sure I'll subconsciously dump it all sometime in the night. There are some incredible blogs out there. People are so creative, so smart, so interesting. I could read blogs all day long.
I would love to know how to add music to my blog. One blog I visit plays all kinds of amazing music. It makes reading her blog so much more emotional, very powerful.
I would also like to be more bold in my blog, more me. I would like to show my true colors a little more. Many of the blogs I follow are impressive in an opinionated way. I love reading the things people are passionate about. Passion is powerful.
But right now I am going to bed. I will tackle this tomorrow in between speech therapy, piano and AWANA.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Over A Mountain and IN the Woods...
If you keep up with this sluggish blog you might remember my last post about our fabulously, fantastic weekend in Winter Park. So much about that weekend was amazing but there was a fraction of it that was absolutely rotten! I could go on and on about the great memories we made but it would take only a second to explain what was the sour part.
This leads me to the point of this post. That weekend pushed Todd and I to our parenting limit. At one point during that weekend I seriously questioned if I was properly hired to raise our three vibrant blessings. Surely God overestimated me and my abilities. I truly felt that all my efforts of the past 7.5 years were for not. Not a single thing I had taught my children worked or presented itself that last night. Okay, maybe the lesson on how to dress themselves properly but it ended there. Manners, respect, boundaries, all of it out the window!
Upon returning to town I quickly made an appointment with one of the popular family counselors in our area. Today was my first visit. She diagnosed the problem in about 2.2 minutes and spent the rest of our visit giving me a plethora of ideas on how to work with our strong willed child a.k.a. Traeton Burmeister.
One piece of advice she had was to talk to everyone I could about their strong willed child and what tricks have worked for them. So, if you have any experience with a strong willed child or are one yourself will you please reply to this post with a trick or two or ten about what has worked for you. She said the longer list I can compile the better because as we all know things only work with these children a day or two before they've mastered it and moved on to the next challenge.
Deepest thanks from this mama who has made it 'over a few mountains but is still IN the woods'.
This leads me to the point of this post. That weekend pushed Todd and I to our parenting limit. At one point during that weekend I seriously questioned if I was properly hired to raise our three vibrant blessings. Surely God overestimated me and my abilities. I truly felt that all my efforts of the past 7.5 years were for not. Not a single thing I had taught my children worked or presented itself that last night. Okay, maybe the lesson on how to dress themselves properly but it ended there. Manners, respect, boundaries, all of it out the window!
Upon returning to town I quickly made an appointment with one of the popular family counselors in our area. Today was my first visit. She diagnosed the problem in about 2.2 minutes and spent the rest of our visit giving me a plethora of ideas on how to work with our strong willed child a.k.a. Traeton Burmeister.
One piece of advice she had was to talk to everyone I could about their strong willed child and what tricks have worked for them. So, if you have any experience with a strong willed child or are one yourself will you please reply to this post with a trick or two or ten about what has worked for you. She said the longer list I can compile the better because as we all know things only work with these children a day or two before they've mastered it and moved on to the next challenge.
Deepest thanks from this mama who has made it 'over a few mountains but is still IN the woods'.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Over the Mountains and Through the Woods!
Over the mountains and through the woods is how our family spent this past weekend. We were blessed to be able to stay at the Burms condo for several days this past Friday through Tuesday. We spent our weekend with dear friends who have two little boys which brought our grand total to nine people in a small two-bedroom condo. We shared some fun, fun moments but we also shared some stressful, chaotic moments. It is a weekend that I will treasure for years to come as we did some pretty cool stuff.
Our first day in Winter Park we headed to the tubing hill in Frasher. Total BLAST!!! If you have never been put this on your 'must do' list for the near future. The amount of speed one reaches while flying down the hill has to be illegal!! Traeton had his own tube but Addison and Elias had to ride in our laps because they were too young to fly by themselves.
The next two days the children spent in ski/snowboard school. Traeton has been asking to learn how to snowboard so we thought, 'hey, why not' and signed him up. He took to it very well which should be no surprise since he is a great skateboarder. Addison didn't fare so well, she made it very clear to all of us that she does NOT like skiing and had no interest in hitting the slopes again. She spent the next day in the condo with the baby boys. Hopefully someday she'll learn to like it because I am certain as soon as Elias is old enough to put some boards on his feet he'll never look back. She might be pretty lonely in the lodge all by herself.
Our first day in Winter Park we headed to the tubing hill in Frasher. Total BLAST!!! If you have never been put this on your 'must do' list for the near future. The amount of speed one reaches while flying down the hill has to be illegal!! Traeton had his own tube but Addison and Elias had to ride in our laps because they were too young to fly by themselves.
The next two days the children spent in ski/snowboard school. Traeton has been asking to learn how to snowboard so we thought, 'hey, why not' and signed him up. He took to it very well which should be no surprise since he is a great skateboarder. Addison didn't fare so well, she made it very clear to all of us that she does NOT like skiing and had no interest in hitting the slopes again. She spent the next day in the condo with the baby boys. Hopefully someday she'll learn to like it because I am certain as soon as Elias is old enough to put some boards on his feet he'll never look back. She might be pretty lonely in the lodge all by herself.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
