Continue reading]]> Being a mom this fourth time around has made me really thankful for what I have and how I’ve changed and evolved as a Mom over the past 12 years.  It has also helped me to not sweat the small stuff (ok… those of you who know me are chuckling at this… So I’m not perfect at it, but I’m trying) and to enjoy the little things and little people in life.  Each milestone and everything they are going through right now is special to me.

I’ve been asked many times if I’m “done having kids”.  I’m not sure how to answer that because I love the kids I have and am never “done” having them in my life.  Do I wish to have more children?  Yes, always.  My kids are my greatest blessing in life and I can’t imagine my life without them.  The more the merrier.  I just hope my body can keep up with all of this fun!

Here’s a list of 101 things I wish I had known the first time around and am coming to know the fourth time around.  Some are funny (but real) and some are serious.  Please feel free to add any that you might have to the list by posting a comment at the end of this post.

Being a Mom 101

1. My body can create a person.  That’s amazing!

2. I’d rather snuggle with my sleeping baby than do just about anything else.

3. I sound just like my Mother did when I scold my children (even though I swore I would be different).

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his”.

-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

4. Covering up boy babies boy parts while changing their diaper is a REALLY good idea.

5. I will never get everything done that I want to in a day.

6. I need and appreciate my own mom more than I ever thought

7. My house is never “really” clean, and that’s ok.

8. Your own sleeping baby is just about the cutest thing you’ve ever seen… ever.  You’d sacrifice your own sleep just to watch him sleep a little longer.

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. I won’t be a perfect mother.

10. I will never be able to use the bathroom without someone beating down the door and asking when I will be out.

11.  Somehow I will be able to listen and respond to all 4 kids talking to me at the same time.

12.  There’s almost nothing that compares to a Mother’s bond with her child and the comfort he feels when she is near.

“Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.”

–  Peggy O’Mar

13. Whining needs a volume control.

14. Being a stay at home Mom is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

15. Being a working Mom is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

16. Being a work at home Mom is a lot harder than I though it would be.

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”

-Jane Sellman

17. I secretly find myself rocking out to kids songs {loudly} when my children have left the car.  I won’t admit to it if anyone were to ask.

18.  My prayers are much more meaningful

19.  I lose track of the time, half of the time I don’t even know what month it is!

20.  I don’t know why I bother giving my kids names, I never call them the right one anyway.

21. Somehow my prayers have much more meaning when I am praying for my children’s well-being above my own.

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.” 

-Abraham Lincoln

22. Criticize my child, and you will see my wrath.

23. Laundry is futile.

24. I’m convinced the alarm clock must be wrong every time it goes off.

25. As soon as I change my baby’s diaper, he will poop out.

26. My husband helps with all math homework.  My kids don’t even bother to ask me.

27. My child is the cutest child in existence

“Don’t ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby’s smile is just gas.” 

-Jill Woodhu

28.  When my kids have a question, they will always ask me, even if my husband is also in the room (except if it’s about math).

29.  Holidays are much more fun

30.  I should record myself saying, “Shut the door” and nail it permanently to every exterior door in our house, never to be removed.

31.  I will never be a sound sleeper again.

32.  The phrase I love you is never used too much.

“Mother is a verb, not a noun.” 

 -Proverb

33.  Somehow you know exactly what to say when you child asks you, “Where do babies come from?” for the first time.

34.  That awkward moment when your child realizes you don’t know everything.

35.  You can cook dinner, hold the baby, unload the dishwasher, and talk on the phone all at the same time.

36.  Your neighbors see you in your pajamas for a week straight and don’t think a thing of it.

37.  You know your own baby’s cry and he knows your voice.

“How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.” 

-Jules Michelet

38. Babies get white tongues, and it’s nothing to worry about.

39. Your child will want to read the same book over and over until you and she both have it memorized.

40. After the kids go to bed, the good snacks come out.

41. Time outs should be for Mom’s too.

42. Nothing exemplifies intolerance more than a boy who wants to date your daughter.

It’s not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it. 

~From the television show The Golden Girls

43. I really do mean to exercise.

44.  I’d rather go through labor 100 times than be pregnant once.

45.  It’s fun to explore and see thing through a child’s innocent eyes.

46.  Putting on a swimsuit isn’t really that much fun anymore.

47.  God gave us children to teach us what love really means.

Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
-Edgar Allan Poe.

48.  Getting anywhere on time is impossible.

49.  Strollers take up the whole trunk.

50.  When girl babies pee in the bathtub you can’t see it, therefore, you don’t know.  When boy babies pee in the bathtub, they can aim it just right so that you have to take a bath too.

51.  You don’t judge the Mom in line in front of you at the grocery store because she has chocolate in her teeth, because you can totally relate.

52. You can no longer fit in your high school clothes, but either can your husband, so they cancel each other out.

“The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, “We grew a child in here,” and breasts that say, “We nourished life.” My hands, with bitten nails and a writer’s callus, say, “We create amazing things,”
-Sarah, from I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women in Their Own Words

53. Your kid is the smartest in the class.

54.  Kid stuff is really expensive.

55.  Kids will come running from any room in the house if you ask if they want a treat, but ask them to do their chores when they are sitting right next to you and they will claim they “didn’t hear you”.

56. There’s this weird competition thing that goes on between Mom’s.  I’m not sure what it is or why, but when you are a Mom, you’ll understand.

“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.”
-Kate Samperi

57. God is in the details.

58. An uninterrupted shower is a luxury.

59. Pick your battles wisely.

60.  Your best blouse is never safe when there’s a baby around.

61.  Always choose the nap over work… always….

62.  Mother’s intuition is real.

“Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.”

—Elaine Heffner

63. You love your husband so much more every time you see him being a great father

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

– Author Unknown

64. Kids say really funny things, especially to your inlaws.

65. Enjoy every moment and don’t sweat the small stuff.

66.  Nesting is a strange phenomenon that only Moms or Moms to be can truly understand.  Warn your husband now!

67.  Infant carseats are heavier than the infant.

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

— Phyllis Diller

68. Alzheimers disease doesn’t seem all that impossible.  With everything you have going on, you can’t even remember your own kids’ names.

69. Your infant will pull your hair out every time you pick him up.

70.  You are infinitely more thankful for your own Mom.

-Abraham Lincoln Quote

71.  If there is something breakable in your house, your kids will break it.

72.  You love your kids more than anything.

73.  Your kid will throw up on you, poo on you, pee on you, and talk back to you and you will still love her.

“A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end a no responsibility at the other.”

– Ronald Reagan

74.  You talk in a different tone of voice to each kid.

75.  Amazon.com has me under their little finger because I prefer to get my merchandise under my front mat, than I do carting 4 children to Walmart.

76. You have to bring snacks and drinks where ever you go.

77.  Someone will ask, “Are we there yet” every 10 minutes when you travel anywhere as a family.

78.  Babies really do eat, sleep, spit up, and poop all day.

“People who say they sleep like babies usually don’t have them”.

– Leo J. Burke

79.  Libraries and Story Time at libraries are the greatest inventions for modern Moms.

80.  You have to say I’m sorry lots of times when you’re a Mom.

81.  Whenever you tell yourself you would never let your kid stand up in the shopping cart like the Mom in front of you in line, you turn your back for a second, and your kid launches himself out of the shopping cart and breaks a limb.  It’s something about Murphy.

82. You get really good at saying “uh huh” when your kids say anything to you.

“First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.”

– Prochnow

83.  There are no child carriers that don’t hurt your back.

84.  There is pain and then there is step on a Lego pain!

85.   Piano lessons pay off big time when your child fills your home with beautiful music for the first time.

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

– Franklin P. Jones

86.   Finger paints are fun all over again.

87.  When you have a kindergartener, you learn that everything you need to know really did learn in kindergarten,

88.  When you become a Mom, you automatically know 2 languages, English, and Baby.

89.  You scream and jump up and down the first time your baby takes a step and everyone else just thinks your weird.

 “We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. Enjoy the little things.

91.  Don’t wish for them to grow up too fast,t hey do that on their own, enjoy every moment and every stage.

92.  Turn off the TV and listen to your kids.

93.  Even when you’re tired, listen to your kids when they want to talk.

94. Don’t be afraid to apologize to your kids.

95.  Model good behavior.  It’s pretty hard to teach your kids to do something you don’t do yourself.

“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.”

-Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

96.  Don’t waste your time on things that do not matter, spend it with your kids.

97.  Even though I’m exhausted and want to sleep more than anything, when my baby wakes up at 3am, I still love cuddling with him.

98.  I love it when sticky fingers reach up to hold my hand.

99.  I hesitate to wash the mirror on the back of my door because your adorable fingerprints are on it.

100.  Hearing you giggle with your brothers and sisters is the sweetest sound!

101.  I have never and will never regret choosing to have a family instead of wealth, fame, the perfect job, the ability to travel the world or anything else.  You are my world, my life, and everything I have ever wanted.

You are the trip I did not take;

You are the pearls I cannot buy;

You are my blue Italian lake;

You are my piece of foreign sky.

-Anne Campbell (taken from this LDS Grandma’s post.)

Continue reading]]> This is me on the treadmill at the gym! For month 5 of my own personal parenting plan, I have been working on going to the gym 3 times per week so that I have more energy to be present for my kids and more energy to hang out and spend time with them. I did go to the gym 3 times this week, yahoo! I am pregnant and in my first trimester, so maybe that’s why I’m feeling so tired, but this week went pretty well. I found myself being more patient with the kids and yesterday we played games together and the day before that we made cookies together, which was really fun.  Every day is a bit of a challenge (energy wise) but I’m trying really hard to do what I can to make that better and trying not to make excuses.

Also, for now I am going to take a break from posting about my parenting plan weekly because I would like to have time to post more about my pregnancy.  Since this will be my last pregnancy, I want to document what it’s been like for me and since this will be a new experience (having a midwife and not an OB), I am excited to share with you what I am going through.  I will probably go to posting about the parenting plan monthly or so and then continue back up with it after the baby is born maybe.

Continue reading]]> I woke up this morning in a funk.  I was disappointed about the results of last night’s presidential election.  I really wanted Mitt Romney to win and when he didn’t, I got in a mood.  You don’t want to mess with me when I get in a mood!

As I woke up this morning and knelt down to say my morning prayers, I had a sense of peace wash over me.  I realized that I was getting angry about something I had absolutely no control over.  There was no way I could change the election results. I can’t change our country.  I can’t make people get jobs.  The only thing I can change is me.  When I let my thoughts wander about what things I would like to change about myself, I immediately felt a sense of deep understanding that who I am is ok with God and he’s pretty darn happy that I’m trying to be better.  This means a lot to me and I will tell you why.

When I was a young woman, I daydreamed about what kind of Mom I would be someday.  I didn’t grow up in a traditional home, so I just kind of made up in my mind the kind of life I believed I would have somewhere out there in the future.  It would start off with a marriage to a man who shared equally in all responsibilities around the house including cooking, cleaning, finances, and child-rearing.  We would have a perfect and happy marriage with stellar communication. Next would come the kids, lots of kids.  I was an only child and always wanted brothers and sisters.  When the kids came, I would quit my job and be a stay at home Mom, and I would enjoy every minute.  Being a stay at home Mom would insure that my house would be clean, my meals would be healthy, and my kids would have perfect hair and clothes.  In my daydream of my future life, my kids would get along smashingly, my husband would appreciate all of my stellar efforts, and everyone would be one big happy family.

Well, fast forward to reality.  Here I am frazzled, juggling work that’s not really working, keeping the children alive, stacking up dishes in the sink so they don’t explode, cooking something remotely edible, volunteering in my not so spare time, church service, yard work, home work, budgeting, couponing, exercising, sewing, breaking up arguments between feuding children, errands, sports and music practice, and driving…. lots and lots of driving.  What happened to my little girl dreams of the perfect life?  And why am I still judging myself on those same impossible standards?

My life is never going to be perfect.  That’s a fact.  Concrete.  It will not change.  While I face many challenges and I’m literally frazzled and on edge 90% of the time (the other 10% I’m sleeping), I can improve, but I need to give myself credit for trying, even when I fail. I have learned the most from the times I have failed big time in my life.  While my life isn’t perfect, it’s pretty darn great and I really need to focus on the good things more than the bad.  I have been happily married for 13 years, which is longer than I’ve ever done anything before.  I have 3 wonderful kids that won’t die if they eat chili from a can and haven’t brushed their hair in 2 days.  I have great friends and family, a great house, transportation, and lots of opportunities ahead of me.  I want to be confident in my blessings instead of having an inferiority complex hangover.

I’ve done this parenting plan thing for 3 months now and I’ve seen huge changes in myself as a mother and huge changes in my kids.  I haven’t been perfect at it. I am trying though.  I am thinking that this month I will work on really listening to my kids.  Do you know what I mean?  Here’s me:  “uh huh,” “yeah,”, “I don’t know”.  I have no clue what my kid just said because I totally tuned them out, but I agreed with it….  I don’t like doing this and I want to be better.  I want to have conversations with my kids without worrying about the 10 loads of laundry blocking the entrance to my bedroom, or the millions of things that should probably get done in the next 5 minutes.  What’s more important, that stuff, or the kids? I want to be able to tune out that noise in my head that blares about the chores and tasks I should be doing, when my heart tells me I should be engaging with my kids more.

I will post about my experiences this month.  I’d also love to hear from you.  What things are you trying to change and improve at?

Continue reading]]> This is the last week in my parenting plan for this month and so far it has been a really great experiment for me as a Mom. I haven’t been perfect at it, but I have tried really hard. Today at Church one of the speakers talked about how spending time with your children is so much better for them than any other activity (my kids are involved in lots of activities so this really hit home to me). Nothing is more important than taking the time and making the effort to spend quality time with them. I still can improve so much, but I feel like I’ve made an ok head start.

This week we were preparing for a baby shower. I have a friend who adopted a baby with only one day’s notice. She doesn’t have any other kids, so she didn’t have anything prepared for a baby. There were lots of people in our neighborhood who supported her and I’m so glad she got to adopt such a sweet little boy. My kids helped me a lot in shopping and preparing for the baby shower.

My oldest daughter wanted to make her own cookbook because she adores cooking, so she made this cute handwritten book where she copied recipes from my cookbooks.  We talked about the recipes and what she would like to make from the recipe book.

We also played many games of Yahtzee on the ipad and Ticket to Ride after the younger kids went to bed.  We had lots of laughs and this little girl is competitive.  I find it hard to win when I’m playing with her.  Maybe she can teach me her moves!

This week my middle child and I spent some time shopping together and having a fabulous time.  I spent a lot of time curling her hair and she helped me make apple slices for a road trip.  We sent silly emails back and forth and played some games on the computer.  She lost a tooth this week so she made an elaborate tooth structure for the tooth fairy to find her tooth in.

My youngest and I have a pretty strong bond.  He follows me around everywhere and we pretty much do everything together.  I don’t worry too much about not spending enough time with him.  We generally read books and talk every day.  This week he told me, “I’m in love with you Mommy”.  Oh, that just melted my heart!  I love that little man.

Like I said earlier, this parenting plan has been a big blessing in my life and has helped me to get my priorities in order.  My family is most important to me and I want to find time in my day to show them that.

My plan for the next month will be to watch my tone of voice with my kids especially when I’m stressed out, (which is nearly every day).  I won’t be posting for a month because of a family situation, but my thoughts will be on it for sure!

* All parenting advice and information on Positively Mommy is provided for informational purposes only. Unless otherwise noted, the site content is not written by doctors, psychologists, or other health care professionals. The staff at Positively Mommy do not have psychiatric degrees or any other therapeutic training. The majority of our advice is drawn from personal experience and thus represents personal opinion. It is not a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Any reliance on the information Positively Mommy provides is solely at the risk of the user. Positively Mommy does not assume any responsibility for damage or injury to persons or property that may arise from the use of the advice and information Positively Mommy provides.

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Heaven is Here Book - Signed

I have been reading an autobiography Heaven is Here by Stephanie Nielson.  It is written by the creator of the popular blog Nie Nie Dialogues. You have probably seen her on any number of daytime TV shows.  She inspired me when I saw her on the Oprah Show a few years ago.  Her outright faith, passion, and love for her family (and for everyone) literally shined through her down to earth personality.

The book is the true story of a family touched by a terrible tragedy and how they overcame almost insurmountable odds.  Stephanie is such a positive person and is one of those people you just want to be like.  She has been a great example to me about the kind of mother I would like keep working toward.  She has a very honest writing style and her story is so interesting.  I have stayed up until after midnight on several occasions just telling myself I’ll only read one more page, several chapters later I have to force myself to put it down and go to sleep!

Reading this book will change your life.  Guaranteed.  For the better.

I happen to have a signed copy of this book in April and got to meet Stephanie and her husband Christian in person.  I took my 11 year old daughter with me to meet her.  My daughter was a little apprehensive at first, but Stephanie was really warm with her and you could see the connection she has with children.  The line to meet her was literally out the door and she was in the very back of a large bookstore.  She greeted each person as if they really mattered.  I’m thankful to have read her story and that I could meet her in person.

You can purchase the book for around $15 on Amazon.com.  It’s well worth it!

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Continue reading]]> So yesterday I posted this on Facebook:

“I had a lightbulb moment last night. I am one of those stressed out Moms that doesn’t fully listen to what the kids say all the time and I was reminded that my 11 year old needs me more than ever. I really want to change, I just don’t know how to stop my stress addiction. Do you have any advice for me?”

Too Many Distractions!

I received a lot of comments with articles and things that helped them with the same issues I was having.  I love when my friends give such good and positive comments!  I really liked an article from Hands Free Mama called How to Miss a Childhood.  She gives tips and advice about how to make your kids feel more wanted and loved by you as their mother.  I enjoyed reading the article and I suggest every Mom read it, especially Moms that are media savvy.  There are so many distractions out there, maybe we don’t have to get rid of all of them, but we would be better off if we let go of  being “connected” to our devices at certain times of the day, such as in the morning when the kids wake up, when they get home from school, and at dinner and bed time.  We could use that time to have a dialog with our kids and really listen to what they have to say to us. What do you think?

**All parenting advice and information on Positively Mommy is provided for informational purposes only. Unless otherwise noted, the site content is not written by doctors, psychologists, or other health care professionals. The staff at Positively Mommy do not have psychiatric degrees or any other therapeutic training. The majority of our advice is drawn from personal experience and thus represents personal opinion. It is not a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Any reliance on the information Positively Mommy provides is solely at the risk of the user. Positively Mommy does not assume any responsibility for damage or injury to persons or property that may arise from the use of the advice and information Positively Mommy provides.

Continue reading]]> Deliberate parenting doesn’t just happen overnight.  It takes time and effort.  Sometimes it requires going outside of your comfort zone.  With that said, I plan to take this year to practice being a better Mom and positive influence on my kids and I am going to share my journey with you.

I plan to make one simple “goal” per month and do my best to make it a habit with my kids and master each concept within the alloted 30 days.  I will be doing everything from spending 1:1 time with each child to keeping a gratitude journal.  Join me as I try to stay on task and consistent.  I promise each “goal” will take less than an hour per day to complete (many will only take minutes).  These goals willl be quick and easy, yet effective.  Stay tuned for the next post!

I find it easier to take baby steps in the right direction instead of trying to do everything at once which stresses me out and makes me want to give up.  With that in mind, I would like to share my Positive Parenting journey with you.  Stay tuned for more posts!

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Welcome and thank you for viewing my very first post!  My name is Rachel.  I have been married for 13 years to a great guy, and am the mother of 3 kids ages 11, 8, and 5.  I have been a stay at home Mom, a work at home Mom and a working Mom (outside of the home) and all have their unique rewards and challenges that I would like to share with you.  I live in Orem, Utah in the suburbs of what is sometimes called “Happy Valley”.  Living here does make me happy and it is a great place to raise a family.

I guess all Mom’s probably would love to know the secret of raising happy kids.  As Mom’s, we unselfishly nurture our children in hopes that they will grow up to be everything they were meant to be.

I feel that if I want my kids to be happy, I probably have to be happy myself.  My oldest daughter is pretty much a mini-cloan of me, and sometimes I hear her say things to her younger siblings that sound just like something I would say and I cringe, because I guess I am embarrassed that I haven’t done as good of a job in teaching her to be positive and loving as much as I thought I had.  It’s not too late to start and I’m starting TODAY!

I love social media…  A lot….  I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Pinterest among others that I frequent.  I like social media because it helps me connect with others that have similar interests as me and it helps me get to know people better and build much needed relationships.

There has been something disturbing emerging among mothers lately in the social media world.  That is, posting about how terrible their kids have acted that day, how being a Mom is keeping them from the “real” life they want to have, and even sometimes making fun of their role as a parent.  Their friends often post similar situations they have had with their kids and the cycle of negative parenting continues.  It seems they find a sense of belonging and purpose by connecting with other Mom’s who also have negative experiences with mothering.

This disturbs me not because my experience as a mother has been a perfect one, all rosy with birds chirping in the background all day while my kids magically mind everything I say, and do all of their assigned chores without any complaint, but because I think our children are harmed by this negative attitude about parenting, sometimes feeling that it is their fault that their mother feels unfulfilled.  Being a parent is hard work and I’m no expert at it.  I fail sometimes.  Well, actually, I fail a lot.  I make mistakes.  A lot. I’m just a Mom like you who wants to raise happy, well-rounded kids and needs some help along the way.

It just seems to me that if we as Mom’s have a positive outlook on parenting, that our kids will feel an innate trust in us and will feel safe, loved, and happy instead of feeling in the way or obstacles that keep us from what we really want to be doing.

I have created this blog to help give Mom’s resources for positive parenting without being judgmental.  I hope it helps this negative mothering trend to change into a positive one!  Please share your stories of positive parenting with me by emailing me at info@positivelymommy.com, I’d love to hear them!

**All parenting advice and information on Positively Mommy is provided for informational purposes only. Unless otherwise noted, the site content is not written by doctors, psychologists, or other health care professionals. The staff at Positively Mommy do not have psychiatric degrees or any other therapeutic training. The majority of our advice is drawn from personal experience and thus represents personal opinion. It is not a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Any reliance on the information Positively Mommy provides is solely at the risk of the user. Positively Mommy does not assume any responsibility for damage or injury to persons or property that may arise from the use of the advice and information Positively Mommy provides.