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Friday Fun Link

lynnmomevolve — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:10:47 +0000

“What’s for dinner, Mom?”

Has weekly meal planning been but an elusive dream for you? Tired of staring blankly into your fridge at 5:30 PM, as your family sings the “What’s for dinner, Mom?” chorus in the background? A friend of mine shared this on-line healthy meal-planning link with me, and I thought I would share it with you.

http://thescramble.com

Looks like a great resource for busy moms who want to create healthy, easy mealtimes!

Live Positively Fulfilled!

Lynn Ely
MomEvolve
Inspiring Moms to Evolve TM
www.momevolve.com

Announcing March as “Moms on the Move” Month!

lynnmomevolve — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:31:47 +0000

I hear it everywhere I go these days – “I am SO ready for Spring!”

From North to South and East to West, it seems to have been a colder than usual winter this year so far. Heck, it even snowed in the Carolina’s a couple of weeks ago!! Here’s a picture of my girls and their twin cousins thrilled by the initial flakes on the eve of their first snow ever – pretty magical!

As beautiful as a landscape of winter white can be, most of us are ready for the warmer weather to arrive and lure us outdoors so we can get rid our “winter weight” (anyone still working off those few last holiday pounds?) and get moving again! So MomEvolve is declaring March “Moms on the Move” month, and is encouraging all of us to begin shifting our focus toward the refreshing Spring season that is just around the corner.

I do want to share with you where the real inspiration for March as “Moms on the Move” month came from. I was inspired to make this declaration by a friend who, like so many other moms in so many varied ways, has found herself in a major life transition. Her specific life-change is that she is soon-to-be divorced and moving solo across country with her 3 young children. There is not a single aspect of her life that is going untouched by the humungo-changes taking place daily for her family.

In watching and supporting her transitions over the last few months, an amazing transformation has occurred for both of us, and I feel so blessed to have shared in this ever-broadening “A-Ha!” with her – the shedding of almost all of her material “stuff” has taken with it all of the internal weight and clutter that those external items carried with them. As we sat in her beautiful home one day, we realized we were surrounded by huge, heavy, cumbersome furniture , which would have been incredibly costly to move into the next cross-country chapter of her life. That was it – the lightbulb flashed on! All of this literally HEAVY stuff represented her past and the weight of it that she was still carrying on her shoulders. At that moment, she was able to see it as what it really is – just stuff – and beyond that, stuff that no longer serves her and really (both internally and externally) has no place in the new life she is creating for herself as she moves forward!

So my dear friend is my inspiration for recognizing March as “Moms on the Move” month, in support of us busy moms shifting our focus toward shedding and letting go of our “stuff” so we can enjoy the soon-to-arrive refreshing Spring season. It’s time to start thinking about Spring Cleaning! Whether you are getting ready to relocate your family to a new home or are just looking to get your internal and external houses in order, let’s get moving!

It is time to wake-up from our winter “hibernation” and get ready to dance into Spring with renewed inspiration and invigoration! Let’s get ready now to Let Go and Get Moving in March!

Live Positively Fulfilled!

Lynn Ely
MomEvolve
Inspiring Moms to Evolve ™
www.momevolve.com

Adding You to your To-Do’s this week!

lynnmomevolve — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:10:55 +0000

It is so easy to get caught up in our day-to-day To-Do’s and busy-ness as moms, that we can forget to make time to think about what truly makes us happy. Sure, we all know that spending time with our families is an important priority and a wonderful way to fill us up with joy, but we can also feel great about the many other opportunities we have available for celebrating who we are and making our hearts sing! We need to give ourselves permission and space to explore all of the opportunities for making ourselves happy, in addition to and in conjunction with the incredible blessing of motherhood. When you take time to check in with yourself in this way, you can re-energize and replenish from the inside-out, so that you can approach others in your life, especially your family, from the most positive and vibrant place. If it feels a little selfish at first, remember that the best way to show others how to love themselves is for you to come from a place of self-love– so try to shift your perspective from feeling self-ish, to feeling self-love, which is a beautiful gift you can share with others.

For a fun, quick way to check in with your Self and reconnect with your ME, find a quiet place today, relax, take a few peaceful breaths, and ask your Self, “What would I REALLY love to do for myself this week?” Then, listen carefully to what the inner voice of your ME tells you. Only you know what you truly need to feel happy and fulfilled, and when you allow yourself to be still and tune inward, your inner voice will be very honest in telling you how to best meet that need. Then make some time in your week, which may literally mean scheduling it on your calendar and making arrangements, to take one small step to address that need or desire. It doesn’t need to be some big huge commitment or undertaking – just a little something that brings a smile to your face and makes you feel fully alive in the moment. Being a good mom does not mean completely sacrificing everything about yourself in order to nurture everyone else in your life – Rather, give yourself permission to share some of your nurturing with yourself, so you can replenish what you have to share with the others in your life.

Live Positively Fulfilled!

Lynn Ely
MomEvolve
Inspiring Moms to Evolve TM
www.momevolve.com