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kkoilpillai submitted a contest entry to
Write a letter about leaving your comfort zone 7 months agoMy dis-comfort zone
KimDear readers,
My heart and soul (and blood, sweat and tears!) for the past 26 years, has been to provide a comfort zone for my three children. While the zone’s physical boundaries were ever shifting, from townhouse in Michigan, to apartment in Japan, to a spec build back in Michigan, home has always been their place of comfort. Throughout the years, the zone’s emotional boundaries were always in flux as well. The walls of love, security, and trust held fast through the cries of infancy to the high school graduations, from the Terrible Two’s to the college drop-offs, from the 1st day of school to the wedding aisle!
Since moving my youngest off to college this fall, I’m in a new and awkward dis-comfort zone, the empty nest. I realize that creating and maintaining my kids’ comfort zone had become MY comfort zone. I’m leaving this comfort zone, ready or not. What will my next one be?Voting is closed
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Kim, Japan??? What were you doing there? That sounds like an amazing experience. It sounds like you were and are an amazing, dedicated and loving mother. Your kids are so lucky that you are their mom. I am sure you will find a great way to spend the extra time on your hands. You are wonderful and have such a big heart. Thank you for sharing and…read more
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Thanks so much for being a loving and caring parent Kim! I feel you wholeheartedly. When you stated that maintaining your kid’s comfort zone was your comfort I felt that so deeply. I try each day to make my childs life easier. I want them to expierence more joys than lows of life. I think you should celebrate yourself, keep crafting, take more…read more
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kkoilpillai submitted a contest entry to
Write a letter to your teenage self 7 months, 1 weeks agoMore & Less
Big KimDear little Kim,
If you only knew then, what I know now, you would have…
rested- MORE & worried- less
played- MORE & strove- less
laughed- MORE & cried- less
slept- MORE & tossed- less
received- MORE & pleased- less
accepted- MORE & controlled- less
stood- MORE & clung- less
celebrated- MORE & criticized- less
believed- MORE & doubted- lessbut you couldn’t know then, what I know now; you could only MORE & less… survive
Love,
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Kim, I love how this piece highlights how changing your mindset in simple ways can have a deep and powerful impact. Thank you for sharing and thank you for being part of our family. <3 Lauren
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This is such a gem; I’m grateful that you shared it
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The funny thing about life is that it will always give us more or less. How we utilize it is what matters. Just like then and now and then, you did the best you could with what you had and that means so much more even now. Thank you for sharing Kim this is an awesome piece! 🙂
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