My prayers go out to anyone suffering right now – I feel like every time I turn on the news, something is happening that breaks my heart. Much of my last week was spent glued to the news too – there was a lot going on, and while I try my best to not get over inundated with current events for my own mental health, the past two weeks or so have demanded my attention. The timing of these events coincided coincidentally with a 30 Day Slow Down Childhood Challenge that I joined, and honestly, with the way I have been feeling, it was perfect timing. I needed something positive, and the challenge has forced me to do new things, and focus on my family and family time. And it is time very well spent.
For instance, last Wednesday I was having a rough day. Our challenge was to create a family moondala – something I had never heard of before but we were game. Billy and I are creative, and together make a good team, and it was fun to do a creative project with Wyatt. A moondala is a visual representation of what you hope to do in the next month, or lunar cycle. It can include drawings, bits of nature, whatever you want to represent these ideas. So, I poured myself into gathering the materials we might need, and then after dinner, we gathered around our table and started putting it all together. Billy and I really got involved in it, more than I thought we would! Definitely a case of the parents having more fun than the child. Lol. We had a lot of fun, and Wyatt did too, adding stickers and directing us on where he thought certain aspects would go. It was a hopeful, optimistic project, and it was just fun to sit as a family and make. I would think in families with older kids, etc everyone could make their own too.
I think we are going to try to do this every month!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
What a great idea! My granddaughter is spending today with me, and this would be a good project for us (Grandpa, too!) I enjoyed seeing your creation and reading your thoughts.
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It was a really fun little project! If you guys made one let me know, I’d love to see it if you wouldn’t mind sharing! 🙂
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I love the idea of that challenge! Thanks for sharing, and I applaud anything that takes us to a more positive place.
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We are having a great time with it! I’m being introduced to a lot of new ideas and concepts. 🙂 Tomorrow we are supposed to create land art- I’m not quite sure what that is but I’m looking forward to learning. 🙂
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What a fun idea! And how cool you guys did it as a family. 🙂
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It was fun! I think it was just nice to sit down, be together, and make something meaningful to our family. 🙂
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I love how you had this ohana art time.
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