Embrace Your Everyday podcast Leah Simpson

Take charge of this Christmas by planning to enjoy it thoroughly. This Christmas checklist offers ideas for more choices encouraging you to create an intentional Christmas for your family. Enjoy more. Do less. Embrace preparedness. 
More on this topic at www.nurturingmynest.com.
More podcasts on Christmas:

More Presence than Presents at Christmas
The Little Known Story of Christmas
Christmas Stovetop Potpourri
What I LOVE About Christmas!
Christmas Musings with Ronnie Stevens
High Hopes with Low Expectations for Christmas
10 Ideas for Centering Christmas
 
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While traditions certainly hold value, they also can involve stress. Holding too tightly to unreachable expectations can evaporate all the joy out of the holidays. Letting go of expectations can eliminate stress and make room to create happy new memories. Check out these 10 Ideas for letting go of expectations this holiday season.
For more on this topic, check out the blog on www.nurturingmynest.com
More podcasts on Christmas:
More Presence Than Presents this Christmas
Christmas Stovetop Potpourri
What I LOVE about Christmas!
Christmas Musings with Ronnie Stevens
High Hopes with Low Expectations for Christmas
10 Ideas for Centering Christmas

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People with grit are some of my favorite people. When I am building a team, finishing a project or just need encouragement, I look for my gritty friends. Over the years I have determined that grit is essential to academic and career success. Grit is the inner power to stick with something or someone when it is hard. Let's dig into the nitty gritty of what it takes to recognize a person of grit, or better yet, to be a person of grit. Check out these five characteristics of GRIT!
More on being your personal best:
Private Worship
10 Secrets from 35 Years of Marriage
Emotional Intelligence
How to Make Friends and Keep Them
Radical Monogamy
 
Books on HOME and FAMILY on Amazon:

Hum of the Home: Routines and Rhythms of Homemaking
Nurturing My Nest: Intentional Homemaking and Custom Built Education
 

Perhaps you have been thinking about making new friends. Perhaps you need to find better healthy friends. Perhaps you need to be a better friend? Friendship with family and others is the most meaningful ways to spend your life. Vunerability, honesty and loyalty are all features of a quality friend. Success in friend making is partially determined by your discretion in knowing what NOT to do when making friends.
 
Read more on this topic @ www.nurturingmynest.com
More on FRIENDSHIP: 

How to Make Friends and Keep Them 
Emotional Intelligence
Neighboring
 
More on HOME and FAMILY in these books on Amazon:
Nurturing My Nest: Intentional Homebuilding and Custom Built Education
Hum of the Home: Routines and Rythms of Homemaking
 

Friendship has always been important to me. I believe that the relationships that we have in our  family and friends are our real legacy. The experiences and life energy of friendship create our most meaningful life. Nothing is more important than the investment we make in the people in our lives. To maximize our everyday life, it is imperative that we know how to make friends and how to keep them. Listen for 10 ideas to make quality friends and 10 ideas to keep those friends. 
 
Read the companion blog @ www.nurturingmynest.com 
https://nurturingmynest.com/2023/08/09/how-to-make-friends-and-keep-them/
More on FRIENDSHIP:
Neighboring 
Emotional Intelligence
Loving on Moms with New Babies
Books on Amazon:

Nurturing My Nest: Intentional Homebuilding and Custom Built Education
Hum of the Home: Routines and Rhythms of Homemaking

One of the easiest and most productive habits that a mom or dad can cultivate for noticeable success is implementing car school. Whether you homeschool or choose traditional school, you likely realize how difficult it is for your child to sit still to read, memorize or listen. Because I have succeeded wildly with this idea over my twenty plus years of parenting, I vouch for it enthusiastically!
More on FAMILY: 
The Value of a Mom
10 Secrets from 35 Years of Marriage
Loving on Moms with New Babies
Books on Amazon: 

Hum of the Home: Routines and Rhythms of Homemaking
Nurturing My Nest: Intentional Homebuilding and Custom Built Education