Confrontation to Restoration

Surviving Middle School: Foundation laying

My children are in the most dreaded season of their lives: Middle School and High School. It's hard, it's volatile, and it emotionally exhausting for everyone involved. Many moms struggle with middle school. One reason can be that they never dealt the pain of their middle school experience, we have moms reliving the trauma of middle school, and children trying to survive it. It can turn into a mess and our children can feel isolated and alone or disengaged. I want to help you, help them survive middle school. I have two daughters and one is a freshman in highschool, the other is a sixth grader and I can tell you I was not prepared for girls in middle school and my eldest barely survived it. I have moms who ask me how to survive it and this whole series is my take on what you can do to help you kids survive middle school. There are three questions I ask my girls everyday when they get in the car. 1. How was your day? 2. Who did you sit with at lunch? 3. Who is dea...

3 Things I Have Learned While Waiting

There was a commercial that was popular by JG Wentworth. The slogan was: It's my money, and I need it now! Typically it was a person yelling this out a window proclaiming that it was their money. I was in the generation that computers were introduced in mass numbers in school. The typing class was a must. We learned how to find information on the web rather than in the library. We learned that we were smarter than our predecessors, we learned there was a faster way, and that life didn't have to be hard. It was exciting to be a part of the dot com era, we didn't have to wait the way our parents did, we could have things instantly at our fingertips. It gave us almost a false sense of entitlement and security that life was going to be easy. Is it any wonder that we struggle with waiting? I have struggled with the dissonance of where I am and where I think I should be. Add into that my belief in Christ and God's Kingdom and s...

Three Perspectives to Help us Live In Purpose

There is no harder job than public service in any capacity, but especially the healthcare profession. As a nurse, I live in a problematic place daily. In my position, I am in between management, government, doctors, patients, and families. I live in the middle of every single statute, and here is where I have to serve people and bring them excellent care. It is so easy to lose yourself in the demands that everyone is making on you, to lose your identity in trying to please every single power that is telling you what you can and can't do, but I have learned how to shift my perspective in the midst of every single power telling me what I have to do. I am still Cassie as I follow JHACO policies, I am still Cassie as I am filling out government-mandated documentation, I am still Cassie when I am meeting my management productivity standards, and I am still Cassie when I am dealing with patients and families. Who I am does not change because my who ...

Cassie's Nimble Nuggets

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