“Enjoy your children as much as you can, they will grow in front of you without you noticing” This is a sentence I hear at least once or twice a week from all kinds of people, who see me with my kids.

I know this fact first hand; my youngest brother is 12 years younger than me. Now that he is engaged I’m thinking, what happened? How did he grow up? I don’t remember getting ‘older’ !!

It is true our kids are growing in front of us, and sometimes we miss to stop,  take a step back and look at them growing. Sometimes, We are I am too busy disciplining, and telling them what to do or not to do, that forget to remind myself that these are my precious kids that will grow out of this house sooner than I like, and I should be enjoying them more.

Lately I’ve been very concerned with my son, I happened to see him being teased or bullied , not quite sure which one was, in the playground by his school mates. It turned out that he was being teased  by a group of kids who he wanted to be friend with badly in school. I have no idea for how long it was going on and the teachers refused to acknowledge even the possibility of it.

I was consumed by this and still am, I’m seeing a counsellor to see how I can give him his self-esteem back, make him calm and happy again, and empower him for when he starts kindergarten in September. The only think I could do at the end of school year was not to send him to school for the remaining for the school, which is only three weeks.

Why I’m writing this is that while I was consumed with this and turned to my best friend (web) for information I stumbled upon  ” The Gift of An Ordinary Day” by Katrina Kenison. Check it out here. It gave me a sense of calmness, to cherish everyday with my children, even if that day is a day that I see them in hardship. Now I’m glad I was there and I saw that, I’m glad that I decided to put my foot down and advocate for him, although I still tell myself I should have detected it sooner.

Until later,

Wow, I can’t believe that May is gone, although we had rain most of the May, but I didn’t feel the time passing by.

I guess the reason is that most of the month, I was excitedly busy, learning new things. I was fortunate to be introduced to Rose & Clare form Dream Unlimited. They have a Dare 2 dream telesummit  going on which is wonderful. It’s a 12 call interview with power full and knowledgeable entrepreneur, talking about all kinds of stuff in the world of business and marketing. I’ve been excited and waiting for the call interviews every week.

They have empowered me to take a chance and go for my dreams. Going after my dreams is one of the main reasons of being absent from the world of blog! It doesn’t mean I will be gone for good, my plan is to come back stronger and with more valuable content.

If you are looking to start a business or already have one, you may want to check them out. I got many good insights form them and I’m sure you will too.

Until Later,

P.S. I know this looked as a marketing piece, but it’s not. I am not writing a review for them or been paid for this post. It’s just me wanting to share my excitement with you, to the point  in the shortest possible way. I got to know them by an e-mail and wanted to pass on the good deed.

Now a days, lots of families live apart. I live in Canada and my mom lives in Iran. It is very difficult to send a gift there, so I came up with an idea. A digi scrap that I can e-mail and if she likes can print it there.

I just talked to her and she loved her gift, she said she couldn’t get a better gift.

Here is a copy of what I did, ready for you to download, add your pictures to, and e-mail it. I believe you should have Photoshop to be able to do that. If you managed to do it without Photoshop, let me know. I’m new in this. here is how it looks, you can click on the image and save it your computer.

Happy Mother’s day to all of you lovely mothers. Have a great day tomorrow and always.

Until Later,

I’ve been stressed a lot in the past week, mostly because of the kids. They are in a new stage. Now my son doesn’t bother his sister that much, but she keeps bugging him until he is so mad that can’t think straight.

As much as I know most of it is my daughter’s fault, I have to teach him how to overcome his feelings of anger and madness and act after he is calm instead of a reaction without thinking.

Some days, I’m so stressed that I can’t even calm myself down when I’m alone and want to do that consciously.  Tonight I came upon this wonderful post about helping to destress. I loved it so much that I couldn’t bear not sharing it here.

It has sayings that make you rethink what you were stressed about. Here are a couple that I liked:

*It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.

I love this, removes the pressure, when you are kind to others and not receiving the kindness back.

*Nobody cares if you can’t dance well, just get up and dance.

This is wonderful too, who knows how many opportunities we missed just because we are shy or think not good enough to, even try.

I wouldn’t do justice to rewrite it here, check it out for yourself.

Be happy and let go of your worries occasionally.

Until later,

He came out of the playground’s fire truck furious.

Boy: I’ll show you [very loud, almost screaming]

[Then a gesture of spiting, but not exactly spitting]

Mom: I know. Calm down, you are red again from anger. Calm yourself down.

Boy: He started it [with anger but a bit lower voice, just a bit]

Mom: I know, I saw him pushing you before, but you don’t scream or spit. you talk, you tell him not to push or hit.

Well I wish this was just a story, but no, this was my conversation this afternoon in playground with my son.

This is going to be a long one, get yourself a coffee and join me.

My son is very active and highly opinionated. He is living in his little world, in playgrounds he plays like there is no tomorrow and he doesn’t pay that much of an attention to what goes around him. Well being loud is his signature, sometimes I think I gave birth to an amplifier, he is loud in normal situation, and louder when he is angry.

In his little head, he is fare, and being his mom and watching him like a hawk, I can see that he is (most of the times).  He shares well and expects others to share with him. As much as he is very easy going in some matters, he gets angry quickly in some situations, which I think is normal and even healthy. My problem is that when he gets angry, he is very passionate about it, and it takes a while to calm him down. We are actively working on his behaviour when he is angry.

Today I couldn’t believe a mom, I was so surprised of her action that couldn’t think and reason with her properly. This is what happened and I really need your opinion on it. Read the rest of this entry »