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While traveling by plane recently, I overheard the flight attendant reminding parents to ‘please put their own oxygen mask on first’. It makes sense that by putting their mask on first, they will receive enough oxygen so that they can be coherent enough to put on our their child’s mask. However, it does not feel natural for parents, especially Moms to take care of their own needs, before their child’s.

How many times, as a child, were you told to settle down and just sit still? Have you found yourself telling your child the exact same thing…even though you swore you’d never utter your parent’s words?

Children, by nature, are active, naturally curious and a bundle of energy. During this busy holiday season, their excitement builds in spite of parent’s and teacher’s attempt to keep children calm. 

“There is a calmness lived to a life in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

                                                                       Blum, Ralph H.

Have you ever felt that life is so busy, you don’t even have time to appreciate what you have?  Do you feel that your child is unappreciative and ungrateful, always looking for the next new toy?  It is so easy to let the “busyness” of life get in our way of remembering…remembering everyone and everything that we have in our life.

Do you ever long for simpler times? Can you even remember or imagine, when you were a child and being “busy” meant experiencing life, moment to moment…lying on the grass, looking up at the sky and watching the clouds as they floated by…or imagining that the clouds were something other than clouds…the cloud that looked like a dog or a dragon?