growing & learning with him
I checked my Feedburner stats yesterday and I had 464 subscribers. Today I have 44. I know that there may be some of you that have chosen to read other blogs and just decided to unscribe to this one.
What I don’t understand is how it dropped so much?
Is it a Feedburner issue?
Will it self correct?
Do I need to ask people to resubscribe?
Who do you contact to see if the problem can be fixed?
Mommy is still very important to JDaniel. He still wants to know where I am and what I am doing all day. When he wakes up in the morning, it is mommy that is calls for.(Part of that is due to the fact that mommy is the only one that gets him out of bed in the morning. I am a morning person and my husband is really not.)
Lately there has been a daddy shift. He runs to the door to see “Daddy”! He insists we get daddy before we start building or playing. He has let me know that some things are just daddy things. The stories before bedtime have become Daddy’s. If I try and start the reading, I am informed by a little voice, “Daddy reads.” It is not just things daddy does. It is also my daddy’s shoes that I am told about. There is also daddy’s chair and daddy’s glass. (JDaniel loves to slip to the table and get any green tea left in daddy’s glass.) The list goes on. It seemed like the house was filled with daddy’s things.
Thankfully last week I finally was driving mommy’s car, reading mommy’s book, and wore mommy’s shoes. It is nice to be included as the owner of a few things.
Today the Muffin Tin Monday Theme is Back to School/Learning. JDaniel had a counting tin for lunch. He had one strip of chicken, two pieces of cheese, three yellow pepper strips (He didn’t like them raw. He loved them cooked.), four grape tomatoes, five orange slices, and mixed veggies with six green beans. This meal didn’t fill him up. JDaniel requested two crackers and more oranges. Maybe I should have done three strips of chicken and one yellow pepper strip.
Here is what she has to say about life coaching?
Proverbs 20:5 says, “The purposes of the human heart are deep waters, but those who have insight draw them out.” Have you ever had a nagging feeling that you really knew the answer to some challenge in your life but just couldn’t quite put your finger on it? Do you ever have so many thoughts whirling around deep within that they seem to elude you? As one very successful businesswoman put it, “My dreams and potential were within me. I just needed someone to draw them out.” That someone was a life coach.
Life coaching is a one-on-one relationship between a trained coach and a client for the purpose of bringing about change the client wants in her life. Coaching focuses on how to move forward from the present to a better future, and follows the premise that the client, not the coach, is the expert on her own life. Christian coaching believes in the client’s ability to solve her own problems based on the Holy Spirit within her and her own unique experiences.
How does coaching work?
When my husband and I first began our training to become life coaches, we were practicing on each other and I asked him to coach me on getting my desk area organized. That may seem like a very small thing, but the constant clutter had bugged me for years and resulted in a continual low-grade anxiety that important things were being overlooked. Yet I felt powerless to change it. My husband is very organized and could have just told me what to do, but instead he asked me questions and encouraged me to think of options on my own. His confidence that I could find solutions myself enabled me to come up with many ideas, and within a half hour I’d found ways to solve what before had seemed an insurmountable problem. That seemingly small victory has given me the confidence to tackle bigger problems and make other needed changes in my life.
Life coaches help people in every walk of life define core values, set and pursue concrete goals, and discern and live their unique life-purpose. In businesses, organizations, churches, schools and families, life coaching is producing amazing results in the lives of people who are being coached. I’m curious: can you think of areas of your life that would benefit from life coaching?
What do you have to do win this wonderful opportunity?
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This giveaway begins January 10th and ends January 27th. It is open to U.S. residents only.
I am looking forward to it getting warmer!
As we start the New Year, many of us set goals and resolutions. I found a great site that help children set goals. It has a really nice goal planning worksheet. The site is called Goal Setting Kids. Here is the link to their site.
Here are some dips, salsas, nachos and chili recipes using Old El Paso Green Chiles. They each have prep time of less than 30 minutes.
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JDaniel Sitting in a Chair
Out
Jumparoo
Nursing
Low crawl
Babbling
Two naps
Waking up at 5:30 a.m.
Baby Einstein
The Hungry Caterpillar
Feeding him with a spoon and some self-feeding
Watching me clean
Existing with other children in playgroup
In
Climbing the outside of the stairs
Sippy Cups
Running
Words like coupons, football, oh-oh, eat,pacie,Jesus and many more
One nap
Waking up at 6:30 a.m.
Curious George and Thomas the Train
Richard Scarry’s Books
“I do it meself” (eating and everything else)
Sweeping and dusting
Learning to share with others in playgroup
My husband and I notice more and more how JDaniel has grown and changed in the last year.
JDaniel has decided it is time to have a baby in the house. No, I am not going to have another little one. This baby is a stuffed dog. A few months ago I jokingly put his favorite stuffed animal Eckel in a swim diaper. After I took it off ,JDaniel would go and get diapers for Eckel a few times a week. I would explain that Eckel didn’t need a diaper, Mommy was just being silly and put the diaper back in the bathroom. Well, JDaniel finally got Eckel into a swim diaper last week. He doesn’t want it taken off either. Eckel needs it.
The next thing JDaniel decided Eckel had to have was a baby blanket. I was packing up the last of the baby blankets to get ready to consign them. They were quickly absconded and taken to a different part of the room. JDaniel ended up creating a nest to sit in with the baby blankets. Later he carried one around and kept repeating, “Baby,baby,baby.” “No,” I told him, “We don’t have a baby in our house. We have a toddler.” “Eckel baby,” I was told as he handed Eckel the blanket. Now Eckel has to wear a diaper and carry a blanket around or be wrapped in it all the time.
I am hoping the Eckel will stop wearing diapers and will give up the blanket soon. Until then I have a new baby in the house.
