WORRY LESS

Am I still beautiful like I use to be?

Are there lines decorating my being?

Will I stay pretty like a pod still holding its pea?

or wither away trying to find meaning?

Handsome it is I use to be called.

My personality in life is unequaled,

but at years after years get installed

will I wither away trying to be restored

Women and men worry a lot.

Here and there planning a plot,

to give life all they got.

In exchange for just a shot

Just know that

Worry does not do a good thing

but to persist with an effort to cling

and when we give it a wing

it establishes control as a king

By Funmi Shoyomi

I love me part 2

...............Are we there yet mama? 

Turn to your right mama, and here we are, she screams with joy. 

Okay baby, just calm down and let me make the order. I said.

Hello, 1 small vanilla ice cream, please.

Is that all madam, the cashier asked? yes, that's all for today, thanks.

Mama you were supposed to buy mine, why don't we buy three, J Joanne suggested. So that I can surprise my brothers with a gift of ice cream, and I know that will make them happy too.

Well, you sure know your brothers will ask for theirs when they see yours, you have a good idea, let's give them a surprise.

Thanks, J for being so nice, caring, and always wanting to share. I said, giving her a high five.

So, the journey home began, with J Joanne slushing away at the vanilla ice cream

What to do about covid-19 and schooling

Lets start with a question today, which can help us to start a discussion. some of us are scared, confused and just wondering what to do with regards to kids going back to school. well, here is talk about it, you might be helping someone out without knowing.

What are your plans like with getting through this school year, amidst the covid-19 pandemic?

Stressing over summer break

Okay moms, summer is here and you will soon stop loading your little ones into the car every day of the week like you normally do and dropping them off at school where you are sure they will be using half of their day there and you can at least do one thing or the other before you pick them up again.

Lets not pretend too much, some of us actually look up to Monday, when our children will go off to school again and you will have little time to yourself either as a stay home mom, a part time working mom or even a full time mom.( maybe not too much for a mom that has more younger once that still stay home) But one or twice we have breathe that sigh of relieve when we drop them off.

Either because we want a break from the ones that can not stop chartering away asking every type of question that you can never imagine, or the ones that will not stop whining about one thing of the other, or the ones with a very strong personality and will challenge you about everything all day long if you let them, to say a few.

Now you are beginning to wonder what you are going to do when they are home all day all summer long and deep inside you it's almost like you are going crazy thinking of what to do, how to do it, when to do it. Checking out every advert on any activities for kids and hoping to get ones that you can afford so that your babies can enjoy their summer but most of all that you still remain your whole self by the time summer break ends.

Well, unlike many people will give advice on what to do that will make things okay, i don't think there are much you can do because those things will not go away and the most important thing is that you gave birth to them, they are yours and the will remain your even after summer break has ended. It's easier to say do this and this when some of the advice givers don't even have kids yet.

WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS

• Just relax, take the day as it comes and before you can say Jack Robinson, time is gone.
• Also try and do activities that they are interested in. When you engage them daily in things they really love to do, they are more excited and they are more in a relax mode.( Certify every activities first).
• Be involve with them by doing fun things together.
• Set goals for them, like reading some number of books for a particular period of time and seeing who read more, they will love it because children are competitive.
• Reward good behavior and it will motivate them to be good

I believe there are still more options out there but as you know i am not a professional when it comes to kids but one thing i am is that i am a MOTHER, and that counts. Thanks for reading and i hope you were able to relate to this a bit and gain something. See you soon like my 2 years old will always say.

Be Encouraged

Okay, i don't have to really think that deep before i know what i want to blog about today. Have you ever woken up and had those feeling of: hmm today is really going to be a hectic day and you started bracing yourself for what ever will come. Well that was the type of day i had yesterday.

I woke up feeling really tired even though i have been sleeping for like six hours( actually maybe less because i have a six months old). I managed to drag myself up from the bed to get my son ready for school and i  just made sure i went through the whole day not feeling like myself. I had to continue attending to my kids despite the fact that i myself needs attention. my priority those moments are my kids

Enough of my story, what i am driving at is that, as parents, no mater how you feel, the little kids that we have do not stop demanding your attention or what they need from you. and its not really easy especially if you have more than one like myself.

And that is where self encouragement comes in, for that fact that no one is around to be a source of energy, that is the more reason why you should push on, encouraging and believing in yourself every step of the way.

 Its actually easy for others to give you words of encouragement at the moment that you need it without checking back to see how you actually did. but if you are the one guiding yourself on, at the end of it all when you realized that you have scaled through, you will be able to give yourself a pat on the back because you understand where you are coming from.

likewise we should apply this type of method not only to taking care of our kids or doing house chores but to those big projects that you have to face and accomplish during your down times.
Always remember that down times are not forever, its just but for a moment.

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