"These moments, when we’re faced with all the perceptions and are asked to hold ourselves in our wholeness, become gifts. It’s here we see where we can deepen our roots of devotion."
So good mikaila. So good. I am really resonating with this message right now, and agree it is really hard to find this balance while deep in the frenetic toddler phase. I would love to read your thoughts on how to balance the needs of our busy, young children with the needs of our bodies in this modern time where mothers are "on" 24/7 and don't have a traditional "red tent" style of rest during bleeding. You are a few years ahead of me in the ages of your kids, and I would love to hear your wisdom on the subject. Sending love and light your way this Sunday morning!
Thank you so much Alex. It has for sure been a layered process and I’ve been finding as they’re getting older it’s been easier to create that restful/slow time because their needs are changing and they go into their own world of play for longer amounts of time. My most challenging time in that regard for us was around ages 18-30 months just because of the busyness of that age, from around 2 1/2 on it’s slowly gotten easier.
Logistically these are some of the things that have helped:
-Having food prepped so all I have to do is warm up most meals (I usually make a big batch of a soup we all really like)
-Keeping homemade play dough on hand, they will play with this easily for an hour
-Having a special basket of toys you take out
-Doing restful things together - they’ll happily sit with warm water bottles/read/cuddle/draw all together
-Making sure I don’t have anything I need to do outside of the house (groceries are stocked, no big plans, etc.)
-Realllllyyyy soaking in the moments of solitude/slowness/stillness so that it resources me more
-Telling our kids that I’m bleeding, that I’m not going to play tag or more active games, ect.
-Weaving in ways to care for my body throughout the day - ie: doing a steam or sitting with a warm water bottle on my womb while they take a bath
I will say too my co-parenting partner and I both have really flexible lives schedule wise, so I know this makes a difference as well.
So good mikaila. So good. I am really resonating with this message right now, and agree it is really hard to find this balance while deep in the frenetic toddler phase. I would love to read your thoughts on how to balance the needs of our busy, young children with the needs of our bodies in this modern time where mothers are "on" 24/7 and don't have a traditional "red tent" style of rest during bleeding. You are a few years ahead of me in the ages of your kids, and I would love to hear your wisdom on the subject. Sending love and light your way this Sunday morning!
Thank you so much Alex. It has for sure been a layered process and I’ve been finding as they’re getting older it’s been easier to create that restful/slow time because their needs are changing and they go into their own world of play for longer amounts of time. My most challenging time in that regard for us was around ages 18-30 months just because of the busyness of that age, from around 2 1/2 on it’s slowly gotten easier.
Logistically these are some of the things that have helped:
-Having food prepped so all I have to do is warm up most meals (I usually make a big batch of a soup we all really like)
-Keeping homemade play dough on hand, they will play with this easily for an hour
-Having a special basket of toys you take out
-Doing restful things together - they’ll happily sit with warm water bottles/read/cuddle/draw all together
-Making sure I don’t have anything I need to do outside of the house (groceries are stocked, no big plans, etc.)
-Realllllyyyy soaking in the moments of solitude/slowness/stillness so that it resources me more
-Telling our kids that I’m bleeding, that I’m not going to play tag or more active games, ect.
-Weaving in ways to care for my body throughout the day - ie: doing a steam or sitting with a warm water bottle on my womb while they take a bath
I will say too my co-parenting partner and I both have really flexible lives schedule wise, so I know this makes a difference as well.
With warmth,
-Mikaila