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Peaceful Child

By Elise | Published: January 25, 2012

My daughter came home from school last night in a tizzy.  She got in a tiny bit of trouble with her teacher, and it hurt her feelings.  On top of that, there was the mountain of homework.   The poor child was freaking out about getting it done so much so that she was practically [...]

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Peace at Home

By Elise | Published: December 19, 2011

There is something about the holiday season that is sweetly melancholic for me.  It’s hard to look at my children and not realize how fast they are growing up.  While I am mostly overjoyed each day watching them bloom into wonderful people, there is a place in my heart holding deep sadness that the time [...]

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Inspired Ideas to help deal with End of Summer Guilt

By Elise | Published: July 25, 2011

It’s the last week of July, which in my small, mid-western town means that it’s time to register the kids for school.  School starts in 3 weeks. 3 weeks?  Yikes!  We haven’t had the most amazing, magical, fun-filled summer I had imagined back in early-June.  Crap!  The garden has yet to produce a red tomato [...]

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Complaining, Greasiness and Space for Peace

By Elise | Published: June 9, 2011

Just in case you think I’m perfect, let me reassure you that is not the case – at all.  I have been complaining to myself about my massive to-do list for the past week.  Also, I’ve been complaining to everyone else I see.  Basically, I’ve been spending a lot of time feeling overwhelmed, frozen, and [...]

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Summer Blues

By Elise | Published: June 7, 2011

Grouchiness has overcome my home.  I am grouchy.  The children are grouchy.  It is hot. I am working on accepting all of this as part of the summer process.  Accuweather.com tells me it is 93 outside at this very moment.  The thermometer in my backyard registers 110 in the sun and 98 in the shade.  [...]

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The To-Do List Gets a Makeover for Summer

By Elise | Published: June 3, 2011

As a Soul Coach, I am always encouraging my clients to celebrate what gets done and let the rest go.  This is a radical concept, and even though it feels really good to do, it can be hard to put into practice. If you are like me, in the morning you make a to-do list [...]

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Serene Summer Plan

By Elise | Published: June 2, 2011

It is officially the 3rd day of summer vacation for my family, and yes of course we had carrot cake for breakfast again.  Don’t you think that’s healthier than cinnamon buns?  I really want the kids to start off  happy dontcha’ know. School was actually out last Thursday, but I’m not counting Friday – Monday [...]

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Permanent Damage Averted

By Elise | Published: May 19, 2011

It appears that even though I was extremely critical of my daughter’s poetry reading skills the other morning, she has survived. I don’t know when the age of anxiety around parenting started, but I know we have been in it for a while. Can you imagine our grandparents being concerned about whether or not being [...]

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Terrible Mothering Moment

By Elise | Published: May 17, 2011

This morning, as I was driving my children to school, I noticed that my daughter was reading a Shel Silverstein poem to my son in the back seat. Instead of listening with quiet gratitude, I asked her if today was the day she was going to read her poem out loud to the class.   She [...]

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Relaxing into May Mothering

By Elise | Published: May 5, 2011

It has been a busy week here.  Fine Arts Day was all day Tuesday at Kindergarten.  I spent most of the day with my hands in a bin of soapy water cleaning out paintbrushes.  Each class got to paint their own trash can – which was really fun.  The trashcans looked terrific, and the kids [...]

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