TOFW

This past weekend my eldest sister & I went to, Time Out for Women, and it was such a good time! We got to Seattle Friday evening, checked into the Fairmont Hotel, which was BEAUTIFUL, went to the Friday session & then to dinner @ The Cheesecake Factory which was Yummy! We had plans to go back to our Hotel, have a wonderful little spa night but we both bailed cuz we were exhausted...oh well! The next morn we got up at the butt-crack of dawn, got ready, went to Saturdays session, ate lunch at Wild Ginger- which is a really good Thai place, we went back finished the last part, & then went home! It was such a fun & uplifting experience! I would suggest every women try to go at some point! heres some pics...

Outside of our hotel

The Fairmont.

All the speakers & Mercy River!

Michael Mclean

John Bytheway

So glad I got to go w/my sister & share this experience together!

One quote that DeAnne Flynn said during her talk really stuck with me: 

“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element [in my home]. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher [a mother, grandmother], I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated . . . and a child humanized or de-humanized.”

                                                                                    Goethe-  German philosopher

It made me realize as women how much of an impact & influence we have on our home and families! I want my home to feel peaceful and to be a safe- haven from the sometimes crazy & chaotic world! I'm gonna try harder to make sure i'm a better example to my children and keeper of my home!