The Balancing Act

Hi.

Welcome. Here I'll share my parenting journey and hope you can connect and relate.

All tagged Grief

May 7

May 7 A dozen gone by

Adrienne Barnard

Balance, Family, Fathers, Grief, Groundlessness, Messy Reality

It was a spring morning like this one 12 years ago when my Dad took his last breath.

Dec 21
Dec 21 Lifecycles

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Balance, Emilio, Family, Groundlessness, Grief, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

"Talk with your children about loss. Share in their joy, and teach them about the cyclical beauty of life.

Dec 3

Dec 3 Giving

Adrienne Barnard

Balance, Family, Fathers, Grief, Groundlessness, Messy Reality

Reality check in the holiday season

Nov 13

Nov 13 The Blue Spruce

Adrienne Barnard

Attachment Parenting, Ava, Balance, Fathers, Family, Grief, Groundlessness, Home, Messy Reality, Motherhood, Parenting

"I stood where my Dad took his last breath. I stood and held you, my growing child and felt your breathing. Your steady, consistent, sleeping breath. I know how fragile life is. And I don't run away from it. You can't. Isolation is more painful than living and loving deeply knowing it can all be gone far sooner than you'd expect, or want, or think. "...