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Spring Activities for Kids

Anna Panza / April 16, 2021

Spring activities for preschoolers don’t have to be complicated and can be a fun way to welcome the season! I have put together a list of 6 hands on, creative activities for you to try with your little ones. These crafts will keep you busy throughout the season and have…

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Garden Sensory Bin for Preschool

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Anna Panza / April 14, 2021

Garden sensory bins are a great way to bring the spirit of spring in to a learning space and keep a little one busy for hours. My little one loves sensory bin and with a few expensive items, I put together a garden themed sensory bin complete with a learning…

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DIY Seed Paper for Earth Day

DIY Seed Paper for Earth Day is a simple DIY you can do with any child to celebrate Earth Day in an eco friendly way. Free gift tag download!
Anna Panza / April 7, 2021

DIY seed paper for Earth Day is a great, conscious way to celebrate the earth and give back. A mixture of paper, water, and seeds creates a fun way for children to participate in the beauty nature brings. My little one LOVES watching his DIY seed paper sprout up after…

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Preschool Activities for National Crayon Day

Anna Panza / March 27, 2021

Preschool activities for National Crayon Day right at your fingertips today in this blog post! Did you know March 31st is National Crayon Day? Chances are if you landed here, you are on the hunt for National Crayon Day activities or simple crayon themed activities to do with your preschool…

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Rainbow Activities for Preschool + Free Rainbow Puzzles

Rainbow activities for preschoolers and children. This post includes 6 activities for rainbow theme learning and a free shapes puzzle download. Activities for preschoolers at home. rainbow activities for preschoolers. Homeschool preschool activities.
Anna Panza / February 28, 2021

Rainbow activities for preschool is fitting for anytime of the year or if you are planning special rainbow activities for St. Patrick’s Day. Regardless of what season you are in with your preschooler, I am hoping these ideas inspire you in your planning of activities. Included in this post are…

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Growing up & through early adult life I had seen s Growing up & through early adult life I had seen so many headlines about “bodies bouncing back”. When I approached the magical 6 week mark with my first son, I felt the overwhelm. My body looked NOTHING like those bounce back bodies. - I thought a 6 week “okay you can workout” would be the magical ticket I needed. All that did was deprive my breastfeeding body of energy & cause stress to a healing system. - It took some time, but eventually things went back to their home. Perfectly? I don’t know… I guess not by culture standards, but the lines slowly faded and the skin didn’t seem so {as my son says} squishy… and I just fell deeper in to a “different” kind of self- confidence than I had at 23. A mature form, I suppose. - I don’t need to tell you how amazing the human body is. - What I hope the message says is… nourish the body, instead of rushing it. As tempting as it feels, 21 Day Fixes and Pinterest diets promising losing weight, but not milk supply can be rooted in unnecessary stress. - And my goodness, Susan… stop asking Mothers at 6 weeks how much weight they’ve lost and if baby sleeps through the night. It’s annoying and no one actually enjoys answered ridiculous questions like that.
👦🏼🤍👶🏼 at one point he seemed so coz 👦🏼🤍👶🏼 at one point he seemed so cozy in there.. I thought he’d be a Thanksgiving baby
Celebration - honor - the in between of postpartum Celebration - honor - the in between of postpartum- between growing a human and feeling incredible strength. This in between is the healing… the honoring… & the celebration of where this body was and our newest chapter. Kinda squishy, kinda pigmented, incredibly beautiful - Let’s shift the conversation from… 🚫”Bouncing back” to 🌹honoring and gratitude 🚫”Pre-baby body” to 🌹 nourished, warm, respected body 🚫”Hot mom bod summer” (or whatever the eff it is right now) to 🌹 slowed down, intentional mom who loves and accepts her body for the way it’s carried her to this season **forgive the run on sentence 😎**
The morning of our birth I heard a song on the rad The morning of our birth I heard a song on the radio. 🎶 “I am not alone” by Kari Jobe—- 🎶 A song I heard for the very first time in the waiting room the day our doctors confirmed our 1st loss… on the same Friday… 5 years ago… A little God wink. I should have known He had plans for that day! 🤍🌈 —— Our Birth Story —— At 5pm I experienced what I knew was the real deal of a contraction. I sat in a vaginal steam session we had pre-planned, not knowing what the evening would bring. - I breathed through Waves that continued to come 3-5 minutes apart. Around 6:30pm I retreated to our room feeling the instinct to work through things in a secluded place. Around that time, back labor fiercely came rolling in. - One of the things I didn’t want to do was be loud. 😅😅 I was certain I’d be calm, cool, and have hypnobirthing tracks keeping me focused. I read all the books, had all the playlists, and was certain no roars would come out of me. At 7pm, I surrendered and my pain relief became vocalizing. I joke now that I mooed like a very loud cow. - I look back now and believe all the vocalizing was trauma releasing from my body. Trauma from loss… trauma from a traumatic birth experience 3 years ago… trauma filtering through as I let go. - It was then, around 7pm that waves started coming in closer together, 1-3 minutes apart. Layering on top off one another without much relief or break. Baby was working on turning from posterior position with the help of each wave. - I didn’t want to be touched. I had few words to give. And at some point I threw up. It was like fiercely treading water, barely opening my eyes to see… or care who was around. - Around 8:20 our birth doula arrived. A blessing as she finished setting up the tub and our birthing space. - I remember the feeling of relief when I asked “why can’t I get in the water?” And hearing her tell me “you can mama!” I finished another wave and stood determined to get to the other room for relief. - By then, 9pm, my little guy was ready to greet us. As soon as my body entered the water (Cont. in comments)
Birth stories tend to start with the onset of labo Birth stories tend to start with the onset of labor. The mother or storyteller taking you on the journey of baby’s journey earth side from first contraction. - Before I take you with me through the story and share the videos of brother coming earth side, I don’t want to miss sharing a key part of our story through his due month. - We journeyed through pregnancy with a “due month” … 38-42 weeks. Knowing baby would come in his time… which felt really easy to accept in the beginning. Until 40 weeks hit. Then 41… then coming face to face with 42. - As much as I knew he’d come on his timing… “maybe Christmas is his plan” I joked… my deadline & planning loving character started to take over. - Some evenings I’d feel the twitch and twinge of my preparing body… thinking for sure it was it. I’d even intentionally dress our son in cute PJs thinking he’d wake up a big brother in the morning. I’d wake up and kind of feel defeated he hadn’t come yet. Sometimes we think we have it all planned out… & {spoiler alert} we don’t. - Those few weeks were the greatest lesson in surrender. Surrendering to not knowing what time… what day… knowing who’d be there when he arrived. Surrendering isn’t my strongest character trait… & God thought now would be a good time to refine it. - I also believe he took my that deep in to the process to share an incredible story. A story quite different than my first… where unnecessary induction happened at 40 weeks and I felt like I totally lost my power over our birth story. - Mmmhmmm. Now I see. Redemptive. A redemptive birth… nose to nose with the very tail end of pregnancy & a birth all on our terms… which needed no controlling.. no planning. Perfect. It just was. Theres they word He likes for me, “surrender”. - So when the birth story is told… let me remember God’s handy work in the WEEKS of lesson learning He perfectly planned for me.
I hope we’re able to teach them how to celebrate I hope we’re able to teach them how to celebrate & encourage one another for all the days ahead. — “When the home is ruled according to God’s word, angels might be asked to stay with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element” -Charles Spurgeon
I sat in the bath as we started to close in on 42 I sat in the bath as we started to close in on 42 weeks. Rubbing my belly, praying, and telling anyone who’d listen “I’m ready! Im ready for this baby to come!” ⠀ I sat there and asked him “Brother, why aren’t you coming?” Almost in desperation. I heard so clearly “because I don’t like my name!” ⠀⠀ Days before we had half heartedly settled on a name. We had 2 we would mill over the last few months and finally we just kind of “settled”. I think he felt that. ⠀ I told my husband… he told me he doesn’t like his name… & back to the discussion board we went. ⠀⠀ There’s this weird part about the final weeks. You’re ready, but just because you’re ready doesn’t mean God is ready. God used those last several days to stretch me… ⠀⠀ To surrender — because despite my wants and {sometimes} demands, His timing is the only perfect timing. - To stop rushing — especially when the rushing leads to settling - to be comfortable and okay with things not going how I think they should go. - Thankfully we were given the space and time we needed to pick a name. HIS name, not just A name, you know? A name that God gave me after our 3rd loss. A name I kind of didn’t think had significance anymore. That was “long ago”. We dug back in to that vault and that perfect name He sent 2 years ago after heartbreak and loss. ⠀ Ah, yes! God is never late, always on time. - Romans 12:12 - Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. - His name is… Roman!
I never knew someone could love being a big brothe I never knew someone could love being a big brother so much! In awe of his love! 🤍
The Rose of Jericho was gifted to me for our birth The Rose of Jericho was gifted to me for our birthing space. - When the birth begins, the dry, twiggy Rose of Jericho was placed in a bowl of water next in our birthing space. During childbirth the cervix softens and opens, and so the dry Rose of Jericho begins to soften and expand and open just like the process the mother goes through at birth. - Our special gift has served as a reminder of our newest life change. Our family was changed during the birth of this child. Our marriage strengthened, our love blossoming because of this wildly empowering decision we made. - Some days we smile at one another in disbelief. God stretched us. Like stretttttched us in the years, months, weeks, and hours leading up to each child’s arrival. Especially this one. - This flowering plant represents our birth, but also 16 years of what God was bringing us to… & will continue to take us through. - This flower was a gift in so many ways! Thank you @heathersaa for the gift. - If you know a Momma in this season, I believe a Rose of Jericho is a special gift.
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