I had the most amazing weekend with my sister and lots of other fabulous women! I am on the board of my friends Power of Moms website and last weekend they had a board meeting and then a mothers retreat in Park City. In 6 years, I’ve only left my kids for 1 night so imagine my excitement at getting a little break for 3 complete days!
Heavenly – Yes, Fun – Yes, Life Changing Ideas – Yes!
It was a lot of fun to meet the other mothers on the Power of Moms board. We email each other and work on projects together, but most of us do not personally know each other. (Saren's sister Shawni is an amazing photographer and took all of these pictures at the retreat)
We had a lovely dinner at the Eyre’s home in Park City. These are such great women doing their part to strengthen and promote motherhood.
On Saturday, my sister and I attended the retreat at the Eyre’s home. There were 100 women in attendance. It was truly an amazing experience and I'm so glad Trina got to go with me. I took pages of notes, but one mom boiled the ideas down so nicely: Being Deliberate not Complacent in mothering, Present for our kids not Distracted, Thriving not just merely Surviving.
We stayed at my in-laws home and I woke up early Sunday morning to a perfectly quite home (I find it funny that I finally have the chance to actually sleep in and I still couldn’t sleep past 6:30 a.m. any morning) The quiet was so wonderful as I was able to really think and ponder the ideas that had been presented. I took my pages of notes out and went through them and created my Things I’m Going To Do List – it was about 2 pages long. It’s going to take me awhile to get to all the things on my list, but I feel compelled to do it. My first big task – Think with the end in mind – when my children leave my home what do I want them to have learned, experienced and felt in our home. Thinking with the end in mind definitely influences the choices we make.
It was a lot of fun to meet the other mothers on the Power of Moms board. We email each other and work on projects together, but most of us do not personally know each other. (Saren's sister Shawni is an amazing photographer and took all of these pictures at the retreat)
We had a lovely dinner at the Eyre’s home in Park City. These are such great women doing their part to strengthen and promote motherhood.
On Saturday, my sister and I attended the retreat at the Eyre’s home. There were 100 women in attendance. It was truly an amazing experience and I'm so glad Trina got to go with me. I took pages of notes, but one mom boiled the ideas down so nicely: Being Deliberate not Complacent in mothering, Present for our kids not Distracted, Thriving not just merely Surviving.
We stayed at my in-laws home and I woke up early Sunday morning to a perfectly quite home (I find it funny that I finally have the chance to actually sleep in and I still couldn’t sleep past 6:30 a.m. any morning) The quiet was so wonderful as I was able to really think and ponder the ideas that had been presented. I took my pages of notes out and went through them and created my Things I’m Going To Do List – it was about 2 pages long. It’s going to take me awhile to get to all the things on my list, but I feel compelled to do it. My first big task – Think with the end in mind – when my children leave my home what do I want them to have learned, experienced and felt in our home. Thinking with the end in mind definitely influences the choices we make.
It was fun to meet so many great women. I had 4 different women tell me what beautiful eyes I had. Can I just say people used to tell me this a lot, but I think it’s been a few years since anyone complimented my eyes. It made me laugh as I thought why this may be. My conclusion – I’d FINALLY had a few nights of sleep. Jenna has been a hard baby and does not sleep very well, couple that with the other kids getting up every so often and I sometimes get up in the morning wondering if I really slept at all. Obviously I look that way too! But with a few nights of uninterrupted sleep I was a new woman!
I’m lucky to have Chuck who is a wonderful dad and had a great time with the kids while I was gone. I knew the kids weren’t going to miss me a bit when he came home Thursday night, just before I left, with bags of chips and cookies. He even took the kids hiking all by himself. When I called to talk to him one evening wondering how he’d survived he told me it was hard, but it was also nice to be your own boss. It really made me think, sometimes I forget how nice it is to be the CEO of the household. I am in charge of how our day goes, I do decide what we well do and how we will spend our time. Motherhood is hard at times, but it is also wonderfully amazing!
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