Letters From Noe’s Garden
Bring Warmth and Wonder to Family Life
Solstice Blessings, from our family to yours ?
Dear Fellow Parent, It’s the Winter Solstice and I am wishing you a blessed solstice, today. Here, looking ahead to Christmas and the close of this year - a year like no other - I find I am feeling so much. Wow. I’s been a whopper. But we made it through. We made...
How to Make a Paper Bag Cutout Lantern
Here’s a lantern tutorial that’s so quick and easy, you can do it in around half an hour. It uses mostly things you have around the house, but if you need to purchase any supplies, you’ll find them easy to procure. You will need: Paper lunch bags. (Approximately 4 - 6...
How to Make a Watercolor Paper Lantern
As an alternative to the many glass lantern tutorials available online, here's a simple, unbreakable alternative! This is a wonderful, pretty simple craft for families to do together. Children aged three and older will be able to do many of the steps. My own...
Raising Children to Trust their Inner Authority
Ever since Me Too went viral, I've been thinking about how important it is for children to know and express their boundaries. I want them to have the confidence to say no, where they need to, and to hear that no, right where it begins inside them. This feels pressing...
Finding Our Village – The Power of Noticing
When I became a mother, six years ago, there was one thing that really surprised me. More than anything else. I was surprised by how lonely I felt. There were so many other feelings, of course. Joy, wonder, exhaustion, gratitude. These feelings, I had expected. I...
My Super Power is Love
I’m with my kids at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. It’s one of those perfect Sausalito spring days. Crisp but not too chilly, breeze coming in off the water, birds wheel overhead. It’s been a challenging week. My son has been up a lot in the night, so we’re all...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
As you may remember from my last newsletter, last month our family went through a rough patch. We had transferred my son to a new school, midyear, and he was struggling. We knew it was the right choice for our family, but it was a huge shift. Behavior-wise, things...
Lavender Foot Soak – A Self Care Ritual for Your Child
Every month, I share some of what I'm learning in my own parenting journey. This month, I've been thinking about self care. Self-care is a hot topic for us as parents. How can we find more time for it? What are the best ways to practice it? How can we support each...
It goes by so fast…
It goes by so fast. We hear it all the time. We say it to each other. “It goes by so fast” is a truth of parenting that we forget and remember, forget and remember. Forget during those long nights when we’re up every hour feeding our child. Remember when we look...
Singing Our Way Home – A moment from Mothersong Chorus
Yesterday, while songleading, I had one of those moments that reminds me why I show up every day for this work, and how deeply this work can transform us. I was leading my women’s chorus Mothersong in singing a song by Paul Barton called “This Path I Walk.” The song...
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