Spiritualmaya Blog Posts

• Summer Fun List 2016
  on Jun 28, 2016 in Kid crafts outside parenting preschooler activities St. Pete summer fun vacation with kids
  It is summer again! I have just a couple days left of summer school teaching, then that means fun filled days with my creative, enthusiastic little girls, 5 and 3. To me the most important thing is to do enough to keep them engaged, which is code for...
• #Thisis40
  on Apr 12, 2016 in balance keep it simple life
  #Thisis40 is this year's theme. My friends, my husband, his friends, and I are mostly all turning 40. To be honest, most of the time I am surprised that I am this old. Age has never been a worry for me. I have always loved my birthday and still do. B...
• Summer Loving 2015
  on Jun 25, 2015 in preschooler activities preschooler craft service with kids vacation with kids vacation with preschooler
  Every year way before even the hint of summer, I think of all the fun activities the girls and I will do, but this year work has been rewarding and busy thus my list is a few months behind. Tomorrow will mark my first official day of summer vacation...
• Easter Basket Advice
  on Apr 3, 2015 in 7 living balance children's books easter holidays kid friendly restaurant parenting
  Easter seems to be getting pretty big in terms of the gifting for the kids. As many parents, I opt forgetting them toys rather than candy. My kids don't eat a lot of candy, so what I buy ends up getting eaten by me. I am the sweet tooth in the house...
• Things to Remember as a Mom
  on Mar 30, 2015 in 7 living balance life mindfulness parenting
  1. It may seem fast in a couple of years, but today is still made up of hours and minutes to appreciate and enjoy. Like Walt Whitman, suck the marrow out of parenthood and take the good with the frustrating one step at a time. If you can take it in d...
• Painters Tape Saves the Day!
  on Mar 27, 2015 in preschooler activities summer fun toddler activities vacation family
  There are days that you just can't make it to be the outdoorsy family you usually are. Perhaps it's a late season snowstorm or hurricane day off of school or my favorite, is the Florida heat is so suffocating today that the layers of sunscreen and ga...
• My Top 7 Choices for Children's books with Black Characters
  on Mar 19, 2015 in 7 living balance children of color children's books diversity mindfulness parenting people of color
  All of these books provide a positive images of racial differences, however not all the books address this directly. In The Color of Us the little girl is struggling with her own skin color and begins to notice that all her friends in the neighborhoo...
• 3 Tips to Discussing Race with your Kids
  on Mar 18, 2015 in 7 living balance mindfulness parenting
  Keeping the silence about racial issues is often the response of many white educated American families in genuine hopes that this alone will be teach our children that there is an inherent equality among all people. Parents have convinced themselves...
• Lean In
  on Mar 17, 2015 in 7 living keep it simple outside parenting preschooler activities South Pinellas St. Pete toddler activities
  Recently, I read an yet another parenting article where the author gave great practical doable advice about reducing your daily parenting stress and keeping up with the daily things like making dinner, getting the kids dressed and doing one daily cho...
• Spring Break Bucket List
  on Mar 16, 2015 in North Pinellas Parks preschooler activities South Pinellas St. Pete Tampa toddler activities vacation family vacation with baby vacation with kids vacation with preschooler vacation with toddler
  One the greatest blessings at teaching at my independent school is the glorious two weeks of Spring Break that we have at the end of every March. Here is my Spring Break Bucket List this year.We are headed to Orlando for 4 days with Abuelos and littl...
• Making Bunnies
  on Mar 16, 2015 in easter holidays Kid crafts preschooler activities preschooler craft toddler activities toddler craft
  It has been a bit since I have blogged our happenings and I miss it tremendously. Over the weekend I had the girls make giant bunnies using the giant chart paper made by post-it. Since Lydia is 4 now I wanted her to practice her cutting skills. She d...
• Thanks and Giving
  on Nov 17, 2014 in 7 living balance preschooler activities service with kids toddler activities
  It turns out that having two kids under 4, a successful career, wonderful family and friends near by makes the opportunity to blog hard; almost an unsurmountable obstacles. It occurs to me to take some pictures and I make a mental note to jot somethi...
• My Own Mutiny Against Excess: 7 Goals for 7 Living
  on Oct 7, 2014 in 7 living balance life parenting
  It drives me crazy to think that my stuff is weighing me down. I worry that my girls’ stuff is too abundant. I worry that others may think that they have too much and that they will be spoiled and that they will grow up to not appreciate things. I...
• Summer Fun: Toddler Crafts and Kid Cooking
  on Jun 20, 2014 in cooking with kids preschooler activities toddler activities toddler craft
  A few weeks ago I had the rare opportunity to have time with each of the girls by themselves. This is very rare. I set a couple of things up for Vivi (22 months) to do. She likes to feel successful immediately when she is doing activities and so I wa...
• A Collection of Random Ideas and Little Crafts
  on May 6, 2014 in baby craft crafts keep it simple preschooler activities preschooler craft toddler activities toddler craft
  I was looking for some art for the  girls playroom. I didn't really want to spend any money. Lying around my garage was an old cheesy painting of of a women playing the guitar in a cool old green frame. I had some chalkboard paint lying around.
• Raising Children is No Joke
  on Apr 24, 2014 in parenting
  Raising children is no joke. It’s not easy. There is no right way to do it and there is no absolute assurance of the long term outcome. Your child will eventually make their own decisions and sometimes those decisions will be bad ones that result i...
• Summer List of Things to DO
  on Apr 16, 2014 in cooking with kids keep it simple preschooler activities preschooler craft summer fun toddler activities toddler craft vacation with toddler
   Summer Bucket List for 2014. 35 ideas and things to do locally and at home with my girls, one is almost 4 and the other almost 2. Most of these are free and the couple that have admissions costs are less than $30. You can't beat it. I...
• And We are DONE!
  on Apr 14, 2014 in Baby Friendly North Pinellas Parks preschooler activities South Pinellas St. Pete summer fun toddler activities
  April 11 marked the one year anniversary of our Park Quest. After reading some inspirational outdoor articles, we decided to venture to visit as many parks in the area as possible, the first goal was 50 between April and August. This goal quickly inv...
• Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
  on Apr 14, 2014 in Parks South Pinellas St. Pete summer fun toddler activities
  As a child this place was home to a lot of my memories. This is where I remember going on library field trips. This is where I pet my first snake and saw my first bee hive. I was not the kid that chased frogs in the mud, but I thought they were cool...
• Northeast St. Pete Parks: A Hidden Gem
  on Apr 7, 2014 in Parks soccer South Pinellas St. Pete
  On the Eastside of town, East of Fourth street down 62nd avenue north there are two parks seemingly on opposites of the road, both of which have a unique role for the neighborhood. However, the Northeast Park really could either be enveloped by Mangr...