Category: Parenting
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Keep knowing you can do anything!
I know that girl. I see the light in her eyes every time she remembers she can do anything. She may not know how to be brave in the moment. May not know what to say or how to fight back in the moment. But when she remembers her mother’s voice, she knows she can…
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Keep lessons of trees in spring!
Love is always present, always with us. I see it clearly in Spring. Whenever Spring comes around, my mind and heart open up. Everything about this season pushes me to live my life to the fullest. To live in the moment too. And trees call me. With every way they sway, they move me. Naked…
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Keep trust like children!
We all know trust is hard. It evades. Drowns in oceans and disappears. It’s steady if you have it. Old people seek it. Young people ignore it. But children elevate it, create new possibilities with it. Even if they are drowning. They trust they’ll never sink. Not when the ocean loves them back. To know…
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Keep moments with God, Part 5!
My son told me yesterday, he would buy me flowers forever when he gets older. I smiled. He is only five and still reminds me of God every time I look in his eyes. I forgot to pen one more moment with him as he turned 5 back in February. He reminded me of why…
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Keep the lessons of meltdowns!
Everyone that loves you know the outbursts is not in your voice. Hands flaring. Nose glaring. The outbursts are not by choice. Pitch getting loud, redirection leading to nowhere. These outbursts are only noise. For a mind overflowing with visions of sunsets, and Orion and dreams of a little star that could, even as tears…
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Keep meatpies!
We are how we live. How we bake too, like meat pies made in love. How we dream, how we hope, through thick and thin plus time. I choose your eternity. Choose your smiles too. Something about the power of you. Keeps me smiling. Like how we smiled today. How I hope we smile tomorrow…
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Keep moments with God, part 2!
You came in the afternoon. Around four, forty-five. On two, seventeen, seventeen. Daddy was there the entire time. Just him, you and Gillian, our nurse practitioner with a smile that never fades. Only three of us. She looked at Dad and asked if he was ready. He smiled. She knew he was. He wore the…
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Keep praising children who know love!
We remind ourselves, each day, all children are precious. Black, Brown, White, no matter the color, or creed, all children, whether strange or foreign, are precious. Recently, I have been struggling with the reality that some children have nothing precious or valuable within them. I often wonder too what happened to them that at their…
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Keep moments with God!
Some moments linger on, like a song, playing on. Like the moment he arrived. We call him Olisa, but truly he is our beloved. Our guide through life. Remember, the $10k lottery, from over 1100 entries. Olisa won that last year at his school. His ways are not ours. The words out of his mouth…
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Keep the lessons of the snow!
Perhaps the lessons from falling snow, is that every fall brings disruption. Every disruption brings change. Every change brings power. Every power brings insight. Every insight brings abundance. Every abundance brings grace. Every grace is sublime. I agree with the snow. What if anything can we learn from snow? The past 2 days my family…
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Keep blooming!
Is it to early to pray for Spring? I know it’s just January. But I am tired and exhausted with winter and Omicron. The thought of Spring seems soothing. I saw yesterday on New York Times, that parents with kids under 5 are in despair. The stress of the pandemic has brought many of us…
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Keep 8 days of Christmas fun!
Yesterday we began an adventure into 8 days of Christmas fun. In fact, we are living our lives through a book written and illustrated by my daughter. All I can say is that because of her, my world is Belle. Like Lotanna Belle, there are no limits. She is one who opens our hearts to…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 