Jan Udlock
Learning To Have Fun?
A dear friend suggested to me yesterday that I should think about blogging for fun. I was blogging for fun… until I actually thought about it. For fun would be “just doing it”…Not worrying about what people thought…Not looking at my stats…etc. Not obsessing over the fact that I don’t any comments… Ouch. Maybe I […]
I’m Back
I know I shouldn’t be writing this when I’ve had too much coffee but I’m back home. I’m currently enrolled in a blogging class and I’m so excited to start back blogging. In the past months when I’ve been gone, I’ve read hundreds of blog posts and have come to see one of the things […]
Growing An Oak
Are you concerned about one of your kids? Sometimes I worry about a certain character trait in one of my kids or a behavior issue in another. Recently I was reminded about the farmer and his level of patience he needs to produce a crop. He doesn’t grow anything overnight and what he does grow […]
Making Mistakes
When life slows down for a few minutes here and there, I ponder my kids and my parenting. When I was a very young mom, I thought I could “mold” my kids into perfect children. Well, almost twenty two years later I laugh about this lie that I believed. I also think about what I […]
Taking Care of Our Self
As moms, often we aren’t good at taking care of ourselves. We always put our kids ahead of our needs which is normal when they are young and helpless. Yet, our kids seem to grow up, and we still forget to take care of our self. This weekend, I got back from the Willamette Writer’s […]
Why Sheepies?
When I started the blog, I purposely didn’t write about my faith because as I shared before, it’s going through a metamorphosis. For a while it was easy to sit back and rely on the verses I knew and rely on my small theology but I felt like a fake. I’m so worried about doing […]
Got a Schedule?
Yesterday my two youngest daughters wrote up a schedule from 11 AM – 6 PM. Brainstormed ideas filled in the slots. Their day consisted of quiet reading, art, exercise, lunch, play an inside game, dance, a spy game, outside water games, painting toenails, computer time and dinner. There was no fighting. It was very quiet […]
Have You Been Creative Today?
When I was young, I somehow connected the idea of being creative with the ability to draw. And of course, I had an older brother who could draw whatever he saw. Sadly, my drawing ability consisted of stick figures and doodles. So I grew up thinking I wasn’t creative because I couldn’t draw. Academics became […]
An Answer to Jealousy
Jealousy can be such an ugly feeling. I’ve spent too much of my life being jealous over a variety of people and situations. What I’ve come to recently realize is when I feel jealous of someone, there is something in my life that I’m not happy with. Are they doing something that I want to […]
Magic Fairy Dust
One of the prizes of the 2010 Blogathon was a one hour phone conversation with Marla Beck, Life Coach to Writers and guess what? I was thrilled to win and spent an enlightening time with her. In the beginning of our conversation she asked me if she sprinkled magic fairy dust on me (paraphrased) and […]
