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Essential Oils for the Overwhelmed Mom: My Go-To Blends for Real Life
Let me paint you a picture: it’s 7 AM, I have four kids to get ready, homeschool lessons to prep, and I just realized we’re out of milk. Again. My 4-month-old is fussy, my 5-year-old can’t find his favorite shirt, and I’m standing in my kitchen wondering how I’m going to make it through another day. Sound familiar? This is where essential oils have become more than just nice-smelling additions to my routine - they’ve become emotional anchors that help me navigate the intensity of motherhood with a little more grace and a lot more presence. From Valor for courage before public outings with four kids, to Joy as my…
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Give Yourself Grace This Homeschool Season
Sweet mama, take a deep breath with me. August is here, and with it comes that familiar flutter of panic in homeschool Facebook groups. The posts are flooding in: “Still waiting on my math curriculum!” “My kids have outgrown last year’s books and nothing has shipped yet!” “I feel so behind and we haven’t even started!” Here’s what I wish someone had told me last year during my first year of fully homeschooling: The beauty of homeschooling isn’t in having everything perfectly planned and lined up on day one. The beauty is that WE set the schedule. Math books delayed? We’ve spent entire mornings playing Monopoly, naturally covering money math,…
