Articles from February 2011
Posted by Martha on February 28, 2011
My final submission of love comes from one of my favorite bloggers. Aside from the fact that I was all excited that Alex, who blogs at Late Enough, actually submitted something to my lowly little blogger self, I was inspired by her post and I thought about rushing out to Target to buy a mailbox [...]
Categories: Goals, Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting
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Tags: Happiness Project, Month of Love, Motherhood, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 27, 2011
My friend Liz sent me this post and I love it. She is one of my regular readers. She is also the person I consider my first real “fan.” (As in, someone who doesn’t know me, likes my blog.) Sometime last year I got a Facebook friend request from her saying something like, ‘I’ve never [...]
Categories: Goals, Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: Happiness Project, Month of Love, Motherhood, Parenting, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 26, 2011
February, the month of love, is almost over and I have a few more submissions to share with you all. Tonight I am sharing a story from a mama who chose to look past my request and write from the heart. She talks about the importance of giving to yourself — another way to show [...]
Categories: Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Happiness Project, Month of Love, Motherhood, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 25, 2011
This quote came to my inbox this morning from The Happiness Project. I am posting it because I think it perfectly sums up being a loving mom: Whoever loves much. Does much. — Thomas à Kempis
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Posted by Martha on February 23, 2011
Tonight even though my brain and heart are heavy with all the political crap going around this nation that is pure and simple an assault on women and children, (A bill plotting the demise of Planned Parenthood, (yes, it passed the House); cuts in education funding for political reasons; a racist billboard campaign, (yep, we’ve [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Goals, Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Happiness Project, Multi-racial, Racism, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 22, 2011
During February, the month of love, I am focusing on showing my love to my daughter. For inspiration, I have asked mamas to submit essays on how they show their children love. This is one is written by Alicia Noack, a stay at home mom in Austin, Tx. The inspiration for her essay comes from [...]
Categories: Goals, Happiness Project, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: Happiness Project, Motherhood, Parenting, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 19, 2011
For years I’ve lived by the saying, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” Okay, maybe it wasn’t my personal mantra or anything, but it’s one of those societal axioms that nobody ever questions. You hear it slipped into conversation enough that you eventually start to feel the need to defend your love of a neatly made [...]
Categories: Goals, Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Uncategorized
| Tags: Happiness, Happiness Project
Posted by Martha on February 16, 2011
My fourth submission of love is some pretty great advice for those days when you just want to yell and scream your kids into submission. Hannah’s advice for handling sibling fights will not only (possibly) calm your kids down, but it gives you an opportunity to give them a nice compliment at the same time [...]
Categories: Happiness Project, Motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Attachment Parenting, Month of Love, Motherhood, Parenting, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 15, 2011
My third submission of love, I have to admit, was a bit disquieting when I initially read it. Either you’ll see why, or you won’t. Either way, I don’t want to bias you against this post because as I re-read it, I began to think, how awesome it was. I mean, how often I had [...]
Categories: Happiness Project, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Month of Love, Motherhood, Submission of Love
Posted by Martha on February 11, 2011
Today, Annika spontaneously told Toyin and me that she loved us. It came completely out of the blue, but a tiny part of me wonders if maybe these first couple of weeks into the month of love had something to do with it. Toyin dropped by after work today to visit Annika. We were playing [...]
Categories: Books, Happiness Project, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Books, Month of Love, Motherhood, Parenting, Submission of Love
