Category Archives: Inspirational

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Events, Family, Favorites, Inspirational, Memories

Thirty Amazing Things About My Son Who Turns 30 Today

  • He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
  • He’s a super involved father
  • He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
  • He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
  • He accepts everyone exactly as they are
  • He is married to his highschool sweetheart
  • He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
  • He is adventerous
  • There isn’t a food he won’t try
  • While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
  • He’s an excellent cook
  • He reads to his daughters
  • He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
  • He’s calm under pressure
  • He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
  • On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
  • He’s always been my video game buddy
  • He is super creative
  • His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
  • He is musical
  • He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
  • For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
  • He can fix things
  • His sense of humor cracks me up
  • He is kind
  • He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
  • He has a broad perspective of life in general
  • He loves his family with everything in him
  • He memorizes random and ridiculous things
  • He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)
Events, Family, Favorites, Home, Inspirational, Memories, Words, Writing

Meaningful Questions to Ask to Get to Know Someone On a Deeper Level

  • What is one new thing you’d like to accomplish over the next year?
  • Where is somewhere you’ve never been that you would like to go?
  • When you are feeling overwhelmed or sad, where is the place you would like to retreat to?
  • What is the last song that made you cry?
  • What is a cherished childhood memory?
  • What is something you have done that was out of your comfort zone but you’re glad you did it?
  • What is the last thing you tried and completely failed at?
  • How many times have you been “in love”?
  • What is the difference between loving someone and being in love?
  • What is one thing you try to do every day?
  • If you were to write a book about your life, what would this chapter be called?
  • What would your favorite chapter be called?
  • When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe, and what caused it?
  • When your mind wanders, who do you think of?
  • What is something you’ve done recently that you’re proud of?
  • How do you know when it is enough?
https://www.lesleyslists.com/poetic-musings/
Favorites, Inspirational, Seasons

Life Is Too Short For…

  • Eating pickles
  • Folding underwear
  • Staying inside
  • Getting buried under debt
  • Raking leaves
  • Listening to bad music
  • Struggling to lose the last 5 pounds
  • Beating around the bush
  • Waiting to tell someone you love them
  • Dusting
  • Wearing ugly shoes
  • Always making the practical choice
  • Putting off the things you are going to have to do anyway
  • Not learning new things
  • Waiting for everything to be perfect
  • Trying to make everyone like you
  • Arguing with people on the internet
Events, Favorites, Holidays, Inspirational

Ways To Say “I Love You”

  • You inspire me
  • I’m so glad you are here
  • You make a difference in my life
  • I can’t wait to see you again
  • You always make me smile
  • You’re the best
  • Have you eaten yet?
  • I saved the best spot for you
  • Come sit next to me
  • I’m so happy for your achievement
  • I’m proud of you
  • Drive safe
  • Let me know when you get home
  • You can always make me laugh even when I’m crying
  • I feel safe around you
  • I think about you every day
  • I prayed for you this morning
  • You are brave
  • I knew you’d know the answer
  • Which do you prefer?
  • Thank you for being so helpful
  • Have the biggest slice
  • Can we hang out?
  • I can relax around you
  • I’m so glad we’re friends
  • You are important
  • I can’t imagine my life without you
  • Your face is my favorite
  • Talking to you brings me clarity
  • You are so talented
  • Happy Valentine’s Day!
Koala-ty Friend Custom Valentine Card | Paper Source
COVID-19, Events, Family, Health, Inspirational, Least Favorites, Seasons

Things You Do NOT Need to Feel Guilty About Right Now

  • Feeling depressed or anxious
  • Being tired
  • Missing the people you used to hang out with
  • Seeing the people you used to hang out with
  • Clinging to your family
  • Not being able to spend time with your family
  • Sending your kids to school
  • Not sending your kids to school
  • Having a cheap face mask
  • Having the most expensive face mask that exists
  • Not having a job
  • Wishing you didn’t have a job
  • Loving your job
  • Hating work-from-home
  • Loving remote work
  • Fearing the uncertainty of the future
  • Being sad about the world around us
  • Being angry about the world around us
  • Being closed off from the world around us
  • Eating at home
  • Eating out
  • Picking up food to eat somewhere else
  • Going for walks/runs/jogs
  • Cocooning at home
  • Not being able to concentrate on reading
  • Reading more books than ever because you have nothing else to do
  • Being unproductive
  • Being so productive people around you complain
  • Sleeping late
  • Not sleeping well
  • Doing whatever it is that you need to do to survive or even thrive
COVID-19, Family, Inspirational

Things For Kids To Do While You Are In Quarantine (and they won’t even realize they are all educational!)

  • Invent a new board game
  • Use chalk art to turn your entire driveway (or front porch, or back deck, or garage floor) into a mural
  • Write letters to people you know
  • Make hand made cards to mail to strangers in nursing homes
  • Bake cookies
  • Plan a menu based on ingredients at home
  • Learn to cook
  • Watch animal videos (Cincinnati Zoo, Shedd Aquarium)
  • Make up fun songs
  • Read Shel Silverstein online and then write silly poems like he does
  • Create a dance routine to a favorite KidzBop song
  • Write a rap about the period table of elements, (or the Greek alphabet, or mutiplication tables)
  • Film your rap on TikTok or SnapChat or Facebook live
  • Plant a container garden
  • Do a multi-week experiment about what kind of music helps your container garden grow faster, (find a “scientific method” chart online to help with recording their hypothesis and testing it)
  • Detail the inside of the car
  • Video chat grandma
  • Teach grandma how to use her video chat first
  • Read big books together (Harry Potter, Narnia, Animal Farm, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland)
  • Do YouTube videos for family meditation
  • Do online exercise videos from LesMills or your local YMCA
  • Measure all the things
  • Design charts to show the measurements
  • Create a stop-action film with Legos or play dough or stuffed animals (or, if you really enjoy Bob’s Burgers, with a pound of raw hamburger)
  • Write a movie script, design sets with items on hand, film it, post it online
  • Let them find Pinterest activities they can do with common household items
  • Build the Best. Fort. Ever.
  • Draw their own comic books
  • Make salt dough and play with it
  • Memorize something (Scripture verses, your favorite monologue from a movie, the preamble to the Constitution, all 50 states in alphabetical order)
  • Hide Easter eggs around the house
  • Do old fashioned calisthenics
  • Organize toys (NOT YOU… let them do it and then be okay with how they do it)
  • Create a time capsule to open in 10 years
  • Bury it in the back yard
  • Hide a “treasure” and then make a treasure map for others to find it
  • Use paper plates or construction paper to make giant Scrabble letters and play word games
  • Help change the oil in the car
  • Learn how to change a flat tire
  • Do easy science projects like eggs in various liquids, or testing air pollution, or the effect of germs on bread (all on Pinterest plus a million more)