One thing I really miss about my life is appreciating beauty and creating beauty. In my youth, I’d spend hours and days, writing journals, sketching ideas, planning strategies, colouring, making, reading, communicating………..and absorbed the beauty of my surroundings. My parents were too busy doing their own thing thus my brothers and I, we were left with the string of maids and drivers for any and many of life’s lessons. Of course, that left me a lot of time to get up to my own devices! And although I got up to a lot of no good, I also learned to be an artist. Quick, let’s all abandon our kids now!
These days, I am too busy to do all that. But I am about to un-busy myself to start doing them all again.
It is me. I am a hopeless romantic and I want to make time to smell the roses. I want to get back down to basics. I want to put technology on the back-burner and focus more on the simple things. I want my kids to be artists too and for that, I need to be an example to them.
I don’t want to be the Mom who’s always too busy, uninterested in whatever it is they have to say. I want to be the Mom who is there. Available at any time. I want to be the Mom who nurtures and endears, not one who judges and criticizes. I want to guide my kids to have good values, good manners, compassion and a good heart. I want my kids to see the world, to learn about cultures and people, and never to look down on anybody, at any time. Ever. I want my kids to learn independence yet know that they can always depend on me, if they so wished. I want them never to lie and be dishonest. I want them to live with dignity and the highest integrity, never to cheat or be unfaithful. I want them to know that all we really need to be happy is a home to come home to, some food and water to keep us going, clothes to keep us dressed and love. Lots of love.
I want to teach my kids how to fish, how to fly and how to cook a mean dish.
I’ve been pressing these lessons little by little at every opportunity to my 6 year old and it is taking effect.
The academics of school don’t matter because the lesson of life, the journey of life, is far harder and tougher to master, than algebra and sodium chloride equilibria.
I want my kids to be loved so much that they never have to yearn being loved by another. I want them secure in their own skin, never having to succumb under pressure from anyone. I want them to be good citizens of the world.
Am I asking for too much? Of course not.
To love! And to life! *raises crystal champagne glass* Let’s raise great kids together – the future generation.
**************************************************************************Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin is a former Design Architect turned Multi-Million Dollar Digital Entrepreneur. She sets out to prove to all that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.
Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past and doubled her salary 5 times over 5 organisations but has grown THREE BUSINESSES to 7 FIGURES within an 8 year period. She now shows others EXACTLY HOW after retiring her own husband from employment. He is now the official dog walker, family driver, chef and THE BEST FATHER to their two girls and THE BEST HUSBAND to the woman who CHOSE HIM!
Mamapumpkin is the girl who has nothing but fights for everything including YOU. She is idealistic in her desire to put unbelievable amounts of money and extrardinary happiness into the lives of good people so we can change the world together believing in happiness for ALL. She strives to impact lives authentically wanting to reduce poverty cycles and enable quality education for all and always supports the voiceless. She believes we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.
A beautiful life without limits.
If you wish to learn how to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave to take action. Mamapumpkin's purpose is to build people. Her gift is to help them UNCOVER their HIDDEN GIFTS. She operates fairly and always leaves an impression. You either love her or not and she is alright either way.
She is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything with anyone, as she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.
Very well said. ‘LIKE’ 🙂
Only if you could spend less time on computer! :p
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