Stacey
Mom Makes Waves
I sat at my dining room table, working at a project. My oldest daughter sat across from me, as one of them almost always does, drawing her LOL Dolls. She breaks the silence of...
Mama Goes to Market
My journey to Market
I’ve always been an expressive person. It started in grade school when I discovered two things: writing poetry and the sewing machine. The sewing came first, but at the time I...
Orchestrating Observers
Within this generation my girls are a part of, I want to orchestrate observers. I want to teach them awareness. I want them to appreciate everything around them, and I want them to look for the good.
The Simplicity of Sunshine
The fact of the matter is, anything around us can inspire. Anything can bring us to appreciate. Anything can put us in a place of remembrance where we pause and reflect. You just have to find your “something”.
Crayons of Kindness
As I was placing the umpteenth picture inside my daughter’s school folder that read “I love my teacher,” I realized the world needs more of this. There is no such thing as ugly displays of gratefulness. There is no such thing as too much happy, even if I can’t tell what that shape she drew is supposed to be. And when my daughter wants to show kindness to a friend or stranger, it is not for me to anticipate how that person will react, but it is up to me to nurture that desire in her. Because the world will try to change her one day; she will be greeted with a situation where she is not accepted.