Sweet Shoppe Designs

Build Your Own Alpha Template by Libby Weifenbach
Good Morning Sunshine by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Laugh Your Cares Away by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Meg Mullens
A Whimsical Garden by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Happy Go Lucky by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Pop Goes the World by Dani Mogstad

Ingredients
to make me a better person

Optimism - This funny little word - pretty much another word for hope. For a few years I forgot what hope was. I forgot what it was to think happy thoughts. How I missed those happy thoughts. It's hard to bring back your optimism when everything around you is black. For now, I've made it part of my daily routine - how can I change my outlook on things. Not everything that happens means the end all be all of life. No matter what happens it will be OK - the world won't stop turning. That was the key I needed to bring my happy thoughts back.
Caring - I’ve lost touch with caring for awhile. I didn’t care much for
anything - especially myself. How am I to make a myself a
better...mom? wife? teacher? If I don’t care enough to put my whole self out there. Caring scares me a little because I put my heart on a sleeve. But then again maybe it’s just the change I need to make a difference really reach my students. The change I need to create a little girl that changed the world. It could my own boost to get back to heart of the matters in my life
Love - I’ve always loved my husband and daughter more than anything. That love has never been a problem. I’ve even found my love of teaching again this past year. The love I really need to work on is loving myself. It’s something I’ve always struggled with. It’s something I’m working on but it’s a conscience effort I have to make. I hope someday soon I can just simply say - I love me. It’s the biggest lesson I learned from my grandma is to just love. So I need to send it out in the world so it can catch on.
Compassion - No man is an island - we can not do anything alone. So just as we are relying on others to help us we all need to be more open to helping. We never know how far someone really has to walk before they come through the door and into our lives. I know I need to open my mind more and show the same love that so many have shown me.