Mindful Magda

Also, different hacks for different seasons! BC when I’m sleeping through the night I love waking up at 6 to get some work done and have time to myself before the kids wake up but you’ll never catch me doing that when I’m nursing a baby all night long 😌

Calgary moms, joyful motherhood, staying in your lane

A rough night is a rough night.
A spill is a spill.
A meltdown is a meltdown.
Carrying her bike home is an extra 20 minutes.
Running late is an inevitability of this season.
The laundry eventually gets done.

Difficult moments pass and we get to decide if we’re going to keep calling them back in our minds. Some of my heaviest days had nothing to do with the size of the problems I was facing, but the way that I decided to carry them.
When we’re adding every small thing up up it can seem catastrophic - when we put our “ problems” into perspective and remember the size and depth of our life and love and everyone in it, it becomes much more manageable.

Keeping the small things small so that motherhood can feel lighter.

Working hard in this season to practice pausing and zooming out so I can fit my reaction to the size of the problem.

❤️

Yyc moms, joyful moms, mom of 4, big families, mindfulness in motherhood, perspective

The more I practice keeping my small problems small.

Why make a sensory box when we live inside of a giant one 😌 ☀️✨🌳🍃

Brb, summer mode 🌳☀️🌻🍃🪻🐞🐛✨🏞️

Your attitude might not be ✨everything✨ when it comes to achieving your goals but it sure as hell is a massive part. Always remember that pressure is a privilege ❤️

The first clip went viral when I shared it 2 years ago, so many positive comments highlighting how cute my sweet girl was and the patience and grace of the grocery store cashier who turned a hard moment into a core memory.

But it also got a lot of angry comments from people who assumed that we made a lot of people wait so she could help scan ( there was nobody behind us lol) and then from loads of people ( who I’m going to assume were always made to feel as though they were a burden in their own childhood, never to be heard but only seen) who were adamant that letting her be cheered up in this way when she was having a hard time would lead her to expect it every single time, never be able to handle her hard moments or be able to exist in the “real world”.

And here she is, a big and beautiful 4 year old girl who knows her way around the grocery store like it’s the back of her hand, who scans, packs up and pays for our groceries regularly. Who waits her turn patiently and quietly. Who still has big feelings and is always getting better and better at moving through them - who is the actual sweetest girl that is always the first one to try to make those around her feel better when they’re having a hard time.

We are so obsessed with rushing independence and it shows in the sea of anxious, dysregulated adults that society is made up of more and more.

Let them be little.

A baby that needs you to sleep is being a baby. A toddler that is having a hard time waiting is being a toddler. Children are not mini adults and they definitely aren’t convenient but here’s the thing, they aren’t meant to be - meeting them where they’re at allows them the space to grow at their own pace and become more confident as they grow while being securely attached.