Start your day over...with a Magic stick

As I embark on my journey to Nashville, please enjoy all of the bloggers who have been so gracious with their time ( especially during the holidays!!) and wrote guest posts for me!

Elena is author of Noodles On the Wall, a space where moms take on the creative! She is also a very dear friend of mine, you know the type of person that you meet and you just KNOW you are going to be friends? that was me when I met her! Take a minute to check out Noodles on The wall for great ideas, Inspiring mompreuner stories, and real life hysterics!

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Recently, my son and I had one of those days. The kind of day when getting out of bed maybe isn’t the best decision. Unfortunately, we didn’t just get out of bed….we fell hard to the floor and ended up with a big chip on both of our shoulders. From the moment we crossed paths, we both knew, it wasn’t going to be a great day. We were grumpy, whiny, tired and truthfully, not feeling like ourselves. After we both ended up crying over why it takes so long to get dressed and put shoes on, I knew something had to shift. I decided that we needed a change of scenery, so we went outside for a walk around the yard.

On our stroll, my son collected sticks while I tried to make peace, “I’m sorry that we’re having such an off day buddy. I wish we could start today over.” He looked up at me and smiled, “like magic?” I took one look at those beautiful sticks in my son’s hands and my mama light bulb turned on. “You know what we’re going to do today? We are going to make our very own magic wands and start today all over again.” My son’s face lit up as we ran inside and rummaged through our craft box. We took out buttons, stars, hot glue, paint, stones, rope……anything that would work on our, Start A Brand New Day Magic Wand Project (is that a tongue twister or what?).

First, I cut the bark off with a butter knife while my son peeled the remaining pieces.