TodaysMama

Regardless of the current weather, March saw tweets, Facebook updates and blog posts proclaiming and praising the return of sandals and sunshine. Check out a few of the marvelous things that March had to offer online (plus a giveaway at the end – WOOT).

Essential skills, like learning how to lose and standing up for what’s right, help children relate to others, respond to their own feelings, and negotiate conflict.  The result: lasting personal relationships and success in school.

There seems to be an increasingly uncivil, angry tinge to exchanges between people who disagree and members of opposing political parties on Capitol Hill, the airwaves, and online. Is it possible that all these adults publicly modeling disrespectful, degrading behavior are creating a new, very destructive social norm?

I’ve been a fan of Zooey Deschanel for a long time. Hopefully you were as intrigued by her singing in Elf as I was, if so I would like to introduce you to your new favorite spring album: She & Him Vol. 2

Something about Spring always inspires lighter menus – perhaps it’s all that time spent frolicking in the almost warm weather. The April issue of Taste of Home is packed with recipes that are light on fat, cholesterol, and calories but heavy in flavor.

Do yourself a favor during naptime and take your laptop and go to the farthest corner of your house to read Tiffany’s blog. The Would Be Writers Guild is so funny and so well-written that you’ll find yourself LOL-ing all over the place.

This week our Local Perspectives bloggers have hit it right out of the park. They’ve shared great ideas for saving money, cooking, connecting with teens, capturing everyday moments with kids, getting fit in the carpool line and oh, so much more.

The harder work happens in those invisible moments when no one but you sees the struggle: to beat back all the resistance to good health, and to say yes…to do the harder thing consistently in the name of recovery.

I want to know what my Mom was thinking in these pictures. I want more details of what she was like as a young mother. I am left to wonder how she mothered us day-to-day…

All that spring sunshine has had an annoying effect – shining a big ol’ spotlight on the dusty tables and dirty windows around here. That made us wonder – what is the one part of your house you keep clean, no matter what?