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“Can someone please turn that music off,” yells the introverted mom (me)!
Last night felt like a perfectly orchestrated episode of the Odd Couple, with me as the odd one out. My daughter Nicki and I were hanging out coloring a winter scene together. For me the scene was nostalgic as the … Continue reading
Posted in Introvert overstimulated, introverts and parents, introverts in life, Quiet, Uncategorized Tagged being soft spoken, coping, differences between introverts and extroverts, how introverts process infromation, introvert, introverted parent, introverts and stimulation, quiet, Quiet Strength, relationships, slow down 3 Comments
Rainy days and Mondays . . . an invitation to ease into the week
This Monday morning we woke up to a dreary sky and resistance from enough children to go to school that it smacked of organized groupthink! As I was loading my daughter Nicki into the car for her preschool one of … Continue reading
It’s Friday. Enjoy down time
Fridays I am tired. After a week of all my family activity with a soon-to-be-5-year-old daughter (whose social life alone exhausts me : ), seeing clients, writing blogs, and everything else in my juicy life – I am pooped when … Continue reading