Archive - April 2018

Step Four for an Extraordinary Life: Let Go

Apr 26 2018

Let it go, let it go Can’t hold it back anymore Let it go, let it go Idina Menzel owns this song. The only woman who owns it more is her Frozen alter-ego, Elsa, when she accepts her frigid powers and abilities. The power of letting go. What if we all did that? Maybe we can’t put the chill on global warming, or gift the desperately-needed snow to Colorado (but when you have any, please overnight it), but what if we let go of our fears and reservations? What if you told yourself 5-4-3-2-1-go!*** and asked your boss for that deserved…

Apr 12 2018

In the book The Mermaid of Brooklyn by Amy Shearn the rusalka admonishes Jenny: Why does something good happening to someone else bother you? I read that and the world stopped spinning. Because in just a few brief words, the mermaid spirit nailed it. She told Jenny, a mother of two languishing after her husband abandoned them, to stop comparing. Stop comparing. This is one tall order. Today’s world is submerged in a “sizing up” mentality. Advertisements promote this-or-that over the other, we scroll through albums of friends’ cherubic children and fabulous beach vacations on social media, and not go…

My name is Heidi Black and I have it all... Maybe not in the traditional sense of the phrase but I do feel I have it all: three beautiful, healthy children, a devoted husband and father and the privilege of being a Domestic Engineer. (I used to call myself a SAHM but that just doesn’t fit when my day is filled with coordinating 5 schedules and preplanning their execution, all up to a week in advance.) And now, indulging in a not-so-secret desire to write, and following the advice “write what you know” I am ready to share what I have learned from this ironic life journey and along with you, discover answers to those many questions related to parenting.