Daily Archives: September 13, 2013

Upcoming Event: Healthy Happy Baby Expo

I am so excited to announce the Healthy Happy Baby Expo coming up next Saturday, September 21, 2013.  We sat down with organizer Kim Swayman, owner of the Healthy Baby, Happy Earth store in Glendale, AZ.  Please read our interview with her over on Sweet Pea Birth‘s today.

Although it is billed as a “Baby Expo”, there will be plenty there for parents of older children.  Along with the usual fare of Breastfeeding Q&A, babywearing, and car seat safety, some of the other sessions are:

  • Protecting Your Little Explorer – Session taught by Nancy Dastrup, owner of Arizona Childproofers
  • Helping Siblings Adjust – Taught by Youth Etc. – Valley Clinical Services
  • Nutrition – Baby’s First Year- Presented by Lisa Ingermanson RD,CLC – Easter Seals Southwest Human Development
  • Fostering a Love of Reading – Offered with Michelle Clark from Babymoon Inn – she is known for creating early literacy play spaces in over 20 libraries and for providing training on early literacy across the country

Check out the complete listing at the event website, http://www.healthyhappybabyexpo.com.  I just got a note from Kim that the Comfort Measures Class offered by my colleague is full, and we are adding a second session.  It is definitely a great idea to pre-register for these free classes, save your seat, and get the most out of your day!!

Will we see you there?  We will be there in the afternoon after we teach our Bradley™ “Next” class.  Leave me a comment and let me know if we should look for you.

Thoughtful Thursday: Priorities!

What a day!  My back knows I was busy today…

What is on your to-do list every day?  How do you figure out what is the most important?

A long time ago I learned this little saying: Drop – Delay – Delegate – Do!

There is also a little quadrant that looks like this:

Have you ever looked at your to-do list through this lens?

Have you ever looked at your to-do list through this lens?

So instead of blogging today, which is my joy to share with our readers, I got busy attacking the work that needs to be done to set up for a pleasant school year and efficient Bradley classes.  Here is how Drop – Delay – Delegate – Do looks with the quadrant:

Instead of trying to get everything done, do what you can do while you maintain a semblance of sanity.

Instead of trying to get everything done, do what you can do while you maintain a semblance of sanity.

We are coming up on some exciting times in our family and pretty soon people are going to start descending on the house.  If I want to clean once, I need to do it.  I know where I want to find things, and I also want to get on with the purging!!  It’s easy to throw things in boxes and hide them behind a closet door (been there, doing that when I choose sleep over cleaning!).  I find that those boxes become an albatross, taunting me and calling my name when I really just want to sit and enjoy our children or dig into a good book.

So I am sorry if we missed each other today…I hope you had a great day.  While we enjoyed camping out on our living room floor the first three days of our school year…it is *really* nice to have the school room organized, the kiddos back in a rhythm, and our living room is closer to being ready to receive guests…and now our physical space for school is ready which means I will be in a better mental space and I also have a place to write that doesn’t make me sit at crazy angles…yeah all around!

Each kiddo has a dedicated shelf, our table is clean, and lots of manipulatives, books, and art supplies!

Each kiddo has a dedicated shelf, our table is clean, and lots of manipulatives, books, and art supplies!

I still have to straighten up the dining room table that becomes my desk when I run out of space in the school room.  I will get to that tonight after the kiddos are in bed!