My Clipboard Planner
This week’s episode is all about My Clipboard Planner!
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Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
- My Daily Dashboard Template (click to open and download PDF)
Join the conversation!
What does your planner look like these days? What’s working for you, and what’s not working?
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Relaunch!
I’m baaaaaaaack! I’m so happy to be recording again, and I’ll be back every Monday with a new episode. Make sure you are subscribed to the podcast, and you won’t miss the new episodes as they come out!
Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
Join the conversation!
What do YOU want to hear about in a future episode? Do you have any questions for me?
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Season 2 Episode 3 When You Forgave But Can’t Forget
This episode:
- sharing some solid spiritual advice I received on forgiveness
- how I use my “moral imagination” to expand on the advice
- show and tell: my slippers!
Links/Resources Mentioned:
Join the conversation!
- What do you do when you’re struggling to forget after forgiving?
- What are YOUR favorite slippers???
- Do you have a question or topic you’d like me to take up in a future episode?
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E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
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Season 2 Episode 2 Family Pictures Are Like Going to Disney World
This episode:
- why family pictures are like going to Disney World
- sharing stories about previous family photo sessions
- sharing things I’ve learned along the way
Links/Resources Mentioned:
- Trying on Apple TV
- Season 1 Trailer
- Season 2 Trailer
Join the conversation!
- What would you add to my list of family photo recommendations?
- What do you wish you had known when you started doing family portraits?
- What are you watching lately?
Get in touch!
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
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Season 2 Episode 1 Acting Like a Daughter
While You Were Folding is back with Season 2! The last time I recorded was back in March 2020, so we have a lot to catch up on!
This episode, I did a quick catch-up, talked about today’s topic (Acting Like a Daughter), and introduced a new segment called Show & Tell.
This episode’s links & resources:
- Abiding Together Podcast, The Wounds of a Daughter
- When God is Silent: Finding spiritual peace amid the storms of life by Archbishop Luís M. Martínez
- The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
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060: Coronavirus Chronicles – Boundaries – Two Weeks In
This week is all about BOUNDARIES! Fighting for them might cause initial discomfort, but they’re essential for healthy relationships–especially during pressure cooker moments like the coronavirus pandemic!
Links/resources mentioned this week:
- Boundaries by Cloud & Townsend
- Girlfriends Podcast by Danielle Bean, “How to Set Healthy Boundaries”
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry by Jennifer Shannon
Questions for You:
- How are you doing with your boundaries during this time? Were you good at setting boundaries before coronavirus?
- How is this experience changing you and your family dynamic?
Get in touch!
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
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059: Coronavirus Chronicles – One Week In
What’s working one week in to school at home:
- Routine (shared below)
- Lots of recess and walks
- Each kid has a job after each meal
- Rotate who plays with the baby or toddler during school time
- Journaling
- Mindset stuff
- There is no getting “behind” right now, so keep letting life happen at home
- The relationship with my child is always more important than the power struggle
Our working routine:
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- Breakfast/morning time/breakfast jobs
- Journaling
- School
- Recess
- School
- Make lunch/lunch/lunch jobs
- Afternoon walk
- Show/naps
- Snack/play outside/free reading/games
- Dinner prep/dinner/dinner jobs/baths and showers
- Read aloud or show
- Bedtime!
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What’s helping me right now:
- Headspace
- Morning prayer and exercise
- Evening walk by myself or reading in our room
- Evening prep for the next school day
- Serenity Prayer
- God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
- God, grant me the serenity
- Janet Lansbury’s graphic (see below)
- Remembering “Romance” (letting God romance me 6/7 days of the week, and I romance Him on Fridays)
Favorite online resources right now:
What’s working for your family right now? Do you have any favorite resources to share?
Get in touch!
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
or
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058: What a Week!
What a week it’s been!
- Great news: I went to the Great Homeschool Conference in Texas and got to meet Sarah Mackenzie and Pam Barnhill!
- Bad news: It got shut down halfway through, and I regret going
- I came home a homeschooling mom because our kids’ school is closed for the foreseeable future. It’s actually going really well so far!
I thought I’d share our general schedule, and I’ll update it as we make adjustments! I know there will be many! So far so good, but we’re only a few days in. Stay tuned!
Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- Sarah Mackenzie and the Read-Aloud Revival (great source for children’s book recommendations!)
- Pam Barnhill (great resource for “Morning Time” ideas)
- Our favorite shows:
- Current read-aloud: The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- Fun resources:
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (art classes on YouTube)
- Virtual tours of 12 famous museums
Questions for You:
- How are you and your kiddos doing?
- What’s working at your house? Have you found a great resource that your family is enjoying? Can you share that one thing that’s working or the awesome resource with the While You Were Folding Community?
Get in touch!
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
or
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057 A Mother’s Rule of Life: Provider
Today concludes my series on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life! I’m talking about the Fifth “P”: Provider. It’s finally to make *ALL* the chore charts!
Provider is all about:
- the time, talents, specific tasks God gave us in this season of our vocation
- the things and finances entrusted to us
The Spirit of the Mother’s Rule
- Like a Constitution of what your day-to-day life is supposed to be about. Living document to revisit over and over to check yourself.
- Summarize the main points of how you want to live out your vocation
- based on the five Ps
- the specific virtues you believe are most important to your vocation and circumstances
- particular goals
- attitudes/frames of mind and heart you believe God is calling you to
- Goal and guide, something you work toward–not something you’ll accomplish perfectly right off the bat
- Review monthly (and reassess entire rule once a year)
- To begin: start jotting down the essential points of what God is calling you to as a woman, wife, and mother
“Room analysis” to make home functional and beautiful (listed on your handout!) – get out those clipboards and excel spreadsheets!
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- Decide on each room’s purpose, find what you need for it
- Give each thing a home
- What shouldn’t stay in this room?
- Repair list (visit list when budgeting)
- Beautifying projects/improvements
- What needs to happen in that room to keep it clean (daily, weekly, seasonally), who’s going to do it, and when?
Home-and-property analysis
- Needs outside the house (lawns, garage, shed, garden, cars, etc.)
Look at your Finances:
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- budget, necessary expenses, debts, bills
- Tithing as opportunity to encounter God
Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- If you’re wanting to learn more about getting to a place of RESPONDING instead of REACTING in your parenting, you might enjoy listening to my episode 047: Wholehearted Parenting
Get in touch!
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
or
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056 A Mother’s Rule of Life: Parent
This week, we’re discussing all things Parenting and continuing our series on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life. (The series started back in Episode 50, so start there if you’re just joining us!)
Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- Sharing about our decision to start homeschooling next year: While You Were Folding Episode 055: If I Ran the Zoo: Our Decision to Homeschool
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- Other parenting experts I’d point you to:
- Janet Lansbury – Unruffled podcast, No Bad Kids
- Dr. Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson – co-authors of The Whole-Brain Child and The Power of Showing Up, he wrote No Drama Discipline
- Dr. Meg Meeker – Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker, many books
- Dr. Laura Markham, creator of ahaparenting.com and author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
- Working Out Your Essentials:
- Hygiene
- Clothing
- personal prayer
- Sports
- Hobbies
- Friends
- Catechism
- Sacraments: Mass, Confession
- school/homework
- sleep, naps
- For each essential item, decide:
- What supplies or materials are needed
- Where belongings go
- Put it into a schedule (decide with older children)
- Make charts and post them
- When can I help the kids?
- When you hit a speed bump:
- Confusion → more teaching and modeling
- Complaining → revise expectations
- Lacking motivation → something to look forward to
- Doing things grudgingly → importance of what they’re doing, teach to “offer it up”
- Sneaking away → make a freedom-within-limits choice (example: do the thing at another time)
- Sloppy work → stories of saints, logical consequences, suspension of privileges
- Keep an eye on how you are behaving
- Involved enough? Too much? Loving and patient? Consistent? Supervising? Teaching and modeling skills and virtues?
Next time: A Mother’s Rule of Life: 5th P, Provider
Get in touch!
Questions for you
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- Did you have the appropriate respect for parenting before you became a parent? What part of parenting is proving to be the most difficult for you? Have you brought your parenting challenges before God and asked Him for wisdom and help? Is there a mom a step or two ahead of you that you could meet with on a regular basis for some mentoring?
- Are your children’s essential needs being met? Does your family need to make some changes in your schedule to meet everyone’s needs? Is your day-to-day schedule reflecting your family’s values?
- Are you guilty of unrealistic parenting expectations? Do you resent “tending the garden” when it comes to parenting matters like discipline or teaching skills (like housework)?
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
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