Graceful Parenting in Austin

I was writing in my Spiritual Journal today about all I hope for and it came out something like this:

Get the laundry done
Go grocery shopping and bake something for tomorrow that will fit in with my Mom’s dinner, Blue Eyes’ new healthy eating habits and Noel’s favorite foods. (Good thing Baby Girl doesn’t [...]

There is a very special relationship, not well documented and known only to a small subset of the population. It is the relationship between a NICU Mom and the deep freezer in her garage.
To explain this fully, I’ll have to start at the beginning. I met my friend Barbara in the NICU (neo-natal intensive care) [...]

One of the sessions I went to at the women’s retreat last weekend was a book group for the book - “This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America” (Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, B.K. Rakhra).” The editors recruited over four hundred women to keep detailed diary entries for June 29, 2004. It [...]

There was a session at a women’s retreat I went to this weekend on Spiritual Journaling. At first I thought, “I don’t need that session! I totally know how to do that!” Except that I don’t do that anymore, which makes it a much less effective practice, so I thought I would go to the [...]

I haven’t blogged for a few days. I went on a short (less than 24 hours!) women’s retreat (stories to follow) and spent a lot of time with some family administrative business (oh no!). I have a lot of posts in me, but only so much time to write, so here is a short one.
I [...]

I wrote about Helen last week, a lonely, elderly neighbor I met on Halloween night. My friend, Katie, a family therapist, recommended getting in touch with Family Elder Care. I gave them a call and they have a great program, providing companionship, housekeeping, meal preparation, transportation and other services for the elderly in and around [...]

Some times I ask the Universe a question and it answers right back.
Like yesterday, when I ran into trouble with my blogging tool, since it doesn’t allow ads. I need to either host my own instance of the tool or move to another tool, which will take a few days to research and I would [...]

It’s Baby Girl’s first Halloween and she may sleep through the whole thing. She is four and a half months old and she is almost ready for a regular routine, but not quite, we are still pretty loose about when she eats and sleeps and naps. This works except for when the rest of the [...]