February Family Matters Photo Challenge: Day 11! (And our shots from Day 7-10)

If you're doing the February Family Matters Photo Challenge, you should have at least a few pictures under your belt! Here are my Days 7-10:

Day 7: Rumbly

Were the trains that went by (and the one that stopped forever-sigh)...and made us impatient to get to the Superbowl party!!!

Day 8: Crunchy...

...were the left over yummy chips from the superbowl, that without that event, who knows HOW long before we'd have them in our house again!?

Day 9: Lovely.

Here comes the snow again. (Which normally I'd be in Heaven with, but kind of not psyched about since the winter has been so mild-I'm over it I think!) At least the walk really IS lovely:) <3

Day 10: Sweet!

My fourteen year old with her favorite snack of goldfish, took a photo for day 10 of her nestle quick cocoa after school (heat up your milk in the micro for approx. 1 minute and 20 seconds, pour in some nestle chocolate syrup and enjoy:) It was her first time and she likes it better than regular hot cocoa packets!

Today is Day 11! Are you going to take a picture of something FANCY!?

I am!!!

Good luck!

Back to School Anxiety: Bullying

Download “School Boy Being Stressed” by David Castillo Dominici via freedigitalphotos.net I recently wrote about how to help your child if they’re struggling with going back to school because they were bullied. My biggest most important tip was to listen, because I honestly could not write a ‘How-to-make-them-not-afraid’ column. Frankly I thought that was absurd. Fear is sometimes real. Anxiety is sometimes truly there, and for a good reason. Our job as parents isn’t to try to make it go away, it’s to try to find out the true source of those worrisome feelings. If you’d like to read more, click here. And if you’re child is struggling to find excitement about the new school year, don’t deny it, just accept it and move forward gently. Here’s some more on bullying: Family Matters Links: A Touching Story/Song Bullying: A thing of the past A Peace Poem By My Teenage Daughter A Deeper Insight into My Thoughts on People Who Bring Harm to Others Other Links: Stop Bul

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Green Punch Buggy....!!!!

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