Bella is asleep on me right now and I started thinking about ways to create a stronger bond between mama and daughters and make them feel special. What do y'all do, hope to start, heard about...
Emilie and I would go to the tea shop together before they closed down, we share dark chocolate sometimes (she knows my hiding place), we dress alike for fun, tomorrow we are going to the grocery together. I am not a spender, but sometimes I willl spend a little more than usual to buy something we like such as a special tea or to get our nails done (we have only done that once). If possible, I let her go with me if she wants to when I am doing things. She loves working in the office, so she goes with me to church to run off the bulletin and do jobs with me at church. None of these things I can think of are huge. I am just trying to keep a relationship with her so that we can still talk when she is a teenager. One of the girls in my teenage S.S. class may go to jail in January, two are in foster care while their mother does jail time, one is separated from her mother and she has no relationship with her. I am praying for something way on the other end of the spectrum.
I share dark chocolate with the girls as well:) I make tea for them. We cook and clean together. I read to them. I hug them. We read the blogs together. I cheer them on in Soccer which they LOVE. I fix their hair special. I say I was wrong and I'm sorry. We work in the yard/garden together and talk. I teach them to know their bodies and take care of themselves. I try to model this myself. I share a journal with each one. I ask for their help when I need it and thank them for it. We are learning/discovering the lost arts of homemaking together. Basically we spend a lot of time together:)
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ReplyDeleteEmilie and I would go to the tea shop together before they closed down, we share dark chocolate sometimes (she knows my hiding place), we dress alike for fun, tomorrow we are going to the grocery together. I am not a spender, but sometimes I willl spend a little more than usual to buy something we like such as a special tea or to get our nails done (we have only done that once). If possible, I let her go with me if she wants to when I am doing things. She loves working in the office, so she goes with me to church to run off the bulletin and do jobs with me at church. None of these things I can think of are huge. I am just trying to keep a relationship with her so that we can still talk when she is a teenager. One of the girls in my teenage S.S. class may go to jail in January, two are in foster care while their mother does jail time, one is separated from her mother and she has no relationship with her. I am praying for something way on the other end of the spectrum.
ReplyDeleteI share dark chocolate with the girls as well:)
ReplyDeleteI make tea for them.
We cook and clean together.
I read to them.
I hug them.
We read the blogs together.
I cheer them on in Soccer which they LOVE.
I fix their hair special.
I say I was wrong and I'm sorry.
We work in the yard/garden together and talk.
I teach them to know their bodies and take care of themselves. I try to model this myself.
I share a journal with each one.
I ask for their help when I need it and thank them for it.
We are learning/discovering the lost arts of homemaking together.
Basically we spend a lot of time together:)
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