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Healthy Lifestyle: Daily Journalling

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

Once I reserve time to sit down and write in my journal, more than one page is filled in no time.  The soul, body, and entire Self desires to be heard, to feel appreciated, and to suggest plans for future days.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

I love adding seasonal stickers to the blank page, lending a bit of fun and magic to tomorrow’s expressions.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

Knowing your inner world makes all the difference in your outer world.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

Snuggling up with tea and my journal helps me to feel safe, cosy, loved, and adored. All ideas are welcome.  All complaints are allowed, and they are considered clues.  I listen.  I reread.  I learn.  I change.  I plan positive ideas to try out tomorrow, next week, month, and year.  Journalling, I find, is key for positive parenting.  I also leave breadcrumbs in these books for older babies to follow and understand younger days.  Sharing your feelings matters, not only to you, but to those who are trying to support and love you.  Answering all of those questions you have is a valuable use of time.  There is time in the day, if reserved.  Unplug.  Write life down.  I love being surprised by what falls out onto the page.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

In future seasons, I will release a collection of guided journals.  I find this practice simply helpful and want to share it with you.  Taking time to get to know your days and inner self makes all the positive difference for a lifetime of peace, healing, and self-love.

We teach little ones to journal, too.  And, of course, they love the stickers!  What fun it is to play journal-ist of the self… (Sorry, I made a Papa joke.)

Make sure to set aside time to rest, heal, and recharge.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  Chopin

 

 

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Healthy Lifestyle: Stay Well Tea

Amor Milagre Stay Well Get Well Ginger Lemon Tea Self Care Daily Practice
Amor Milagre Stay Well Get Well Ginger Lemon Tea Self Care Daily Practice

Rainy early spring days are no exception for practicing my daily tea routine of grated ginger root and lemon.  Transitions in weather are some of the best times to bolster health.  This simple way to get well and stay well is magical for us, even for the someone here who doesn’t like tea.  This may be the shortest recipe in my upcoming organic vegan cookbook, but it just might be the most positively impactful.  The other like it is our weekly vegetable soup.  Boosted up by these two, we feel a bit stronger each day.  We don’t wait to eat healthy foods until we are ill, but enjoy this practice daily.  This helps us to feel like we are doing all we can to stay well, and more…with detailed homeschool health lessons.  Learning about what ails you can help you to heal yourself.  Playing detective and solving these troubling riddles makes a world of difference over the course of a week and a lifetime.  Stay well, Love ~ Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Stay Well Get Well Ginger Lemon Tea Self Care Daily Practice
Amor Milagre Stay Well Get Well Ginger Lemon Tea Self Care Daily Practice.  *Tip: Use safe stainless steel and glass strainers, not plastic, to prevent more microplastic invasions.  Just grate in a bit of organic ginger root, add lemon and warm water…et voila!  Sip and enjoy…  (Adjust amounts for your unique body’s system.)

 

 

 

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Renovation Diaries: In the Sitting Room…

Sitting Room Renovation Sensitive Home Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Sitting Room Renovation Sensitive Home Interior Design by Amor Milagre

In the finished sitting room, we puzzle, movie, dance, fold laundry, sew, and read.  I set out spring-themed books for little borrowers to enjoy, leaving tiny love notes for them to find by their hidden door in the tapestry-covered hearth.  This room will be a cool haven from summer’s shine.

This week, I tucked away the wintry bulbs and bows and out came out pink jacketed bunnies of straw, spring greens, and darling ducklings.  In the library-atelier, a spring ornament tree was decorated with little paws.  I’ll show this pretty scene soon…

Sitting Room Renovation Sensitive Home Artwork & Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Sitting Room Renovation Sensitive Home Interior Design by Amor Milagre Shop Other Tree Artwork Here

Dotted about our newly custom made bookcases are some springtime oil paintings.  My muse, during our first year renovating/living here, was the flowering apple tree in the back garden.  All pink, all of a sudden, and humming with bees.

Now, to sew up some summer breeze tea-length skirts in airy organic cottons…

Happy Early Spring to You!  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  A chorus of crows in the back garden.

 

 

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March & Spring Cleaning

Amor Milagre Golden & Earthen White Spring Moth artwork Nursery Art Butterfly Insect A Gentle Life Collection amormilagre.com
Amor Milagre Golden & Earthen White Spring Moth artwork Nursery Art Butterfly Insect A Gentle Life Collection

It’s March…

This is that time of year when the bookcases and closets need a bit of a tidying up.  Clothes need sorting and unwanted items are sold off.  Room for new possibilities, and just for breathing, is on the menu, here at Rose Cottage.  The robins are dotting the apple trees, icicles drip, and we’re planning new adventures, albeit small and local.

This March, I’m illustrating my children’s books, editing my novels, and releasing my wax seal stickers, fresh and hot from the stamper.  Soon, the first seeds of the garden will be planted.  The summery pajamas will be refreshed and put onto the shelves, ready for spring fae bedtimes.  Once our mounds and tunnels of white disappear, enriching the soil, the tulips and daffies will stretch up to the sun as we do in our daily yoga practice.

Already, early as it is for our spring here, the animals are showing excitement.  Every bug is coming out of the bark to sense the new air.  We dearly hope our neighbours do not repeat their pollution this year.  We need nature and have much to do in the gardens.  Gardening is a pleasure.  It provides organic food for our family.  It’s exercise.  It’s everything.  We find it intensely healing to sit with nature, to listen to her song.  As the world turns more violent, every soul must thaw their anger.  It’s always a good time for peace.

Plant seeds of goodness, Darlings.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

Some Spring Things

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Winter to Spring

Amor Milagre Winter to Spring Journal Post
Amor Milagre Winter to Spring- Watching the hyacinths bloom in the window-Sweet Valentine Gifts from my husband

Five Simply Romantic Ways

we enjoy Winter and plan for Spring:

  1. Drawing out colourful garden maps and organizing seed packets according to planting times.
  2. Reading seasonal stories and poetry aloud together in the library.
  3. Writing our own stories and illustrating based on our view of the transitioning garden and woods.
  4. Embracing the deliciously rare quietness of this time of year by deeply snuggling in for naps, long baths, and early bedtimes.
  5. Living each day loving the moment’s weather, mood, and needs.

Wishing you a truly accepting breath of nowness.

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

Music of the Moment:

The dainty drip-drip-drop of melting icicles outside my sunlit window.