Adam heard something very interesting on a podcast the other day, which said often they see couples all around them, who are in their mid 40s, get divorced over the 10% of things that frustrate them, or annoy them, or that they wish were different, etc. and they set aside the 90% of things that they love about their spouse. “It is so easy to get fixated on someone’s 10% if you’re frustrated with your own life.” In preparation of talking about the 10%, talk often about the 90% of things you love about your spouse to soften the blow when it’s time to talk about the 10%. - Fixation on the 10% 1:30 - A lot of the things you learn in marriage can guide raising children 7:30 - A simple example of showing affection 13:30 “What I should really do is learn to embrace it and be like ‘if he gets his hug, he’s not gonna worry about us being late.’ but I’m used to you not being late, so I’m prioritising rushing to get out, and then it’s like, oh my goodness, I don’t want you to be frustrated because we’re late. It’s like a lose-lose.” 14:05 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

Today we are meeting with Ellanee Wilson, the Sleep Coach Mom, and the purpose of this podcast episode is to help moms feel confident in whatever sleep choices they make. Rosie and Ellanee discuss the differences in how touchy your children can be and how this will influence their ability to sleep with you or on their own. Newborn babies often have fairly abnormal sleep patterns after leaving the mother’s womb, so it’s quite normal for things to be irregular once your baby is born, which many first time mothers don’t understand. - Becoming the sleep coach mom 1:15 - Co-sleeping with your children 7:00 - Everyone has a different experience 12:30 - It’s OK for your child to not sleep well at first 18:00 - Women need the right support 29:00 - It’s not about finding the perfect nighttime routine once biological needs are met 35:00 “I feel like there is an idea out there that if you do focus on independent sleep, it is like this rigid–and there is some level of like, you need to be consistent with things in the very beginning, but I feel like people have a preconceived notion that it means you just don’t respond to your child’s needs, and that’s just so very much not the case.” 41:39 sleepcoachmom.com @sleep.coach.mom https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

We are so excited for this topic because we feel the first year of motherhood is so special, so intense, it goes by so quickly and we become a whole new person in a short period of time. Jenna discusses how she was both ready to be a mother and follow a career in nursing, and the challenges that has posed, but also the satisfaction she has experienced as she just decided to go for being a mom after her first year of working as a nurse. - Jenna’s daughter’s 1st year and deciding about motherhood 1:00 - How it felt when Blake was born 6:15 - Learning to trust your intuition 16:00 - Getting into a natural rhythm with her child 19:50 - The most useful things people did for her 27:30 “ I was honestly terrified of getting pregnant before that and just really didn’t want it to happen. I know I always wanted to be a mom like I said, but it just didn’t feel right, and then at some point it just did, and I just know that God was in the details of that helping me feel ready.” 4:50 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

Today is a short, but very specific episode, which is something that we’re seeing unfold as our kids get older. We have 5 children at this moment, including an 11 year old boy, 7 year old girl, 5 year old boy, 3 year old boy, and 2 year old boy. Something we’ve been observing the past few months is how much the oldest two adore the baby. We have come to realise something important and maybe useful for those who are trying to decide whether to have more kids or not. - Something we’ve noticed 1:00 - Preparing for parenthood 1:40 - What we have come to realise 3:05 “If the older sibling gets married and has a child and the younger sibling is still young, then the younger sibling will learn parenting from being an uncle or an auntie because they’ll have nieces and nephews. So the cycle kind of continues.” 3:46 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

We feel a lot of people struggle with this issue where they are ambitious, goal driven, and a little overwhelmed, and then they bring that home and it interrupts the flow of family life. The difficult thing can be when you are going a hundred miles an hour at work, and then you come home only to bring all that to a complete halt and the transition can be a little jarring. You can turn a blowtorch on your family if you’re not careful, so it’s important to come up with a plan on how to deal with the stress of your career and adjust back to family life regularly. - Going into a different mode 2:20 - Make the time to decompress 3:35 - Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon 8:50 - Becoming irrelevant 10:15 - A plea for peace 12:20 - Differences in intensity 13:00 “I was listening to something really impactful last Friday and it’s like, OK well that’s great. You might be the biggest hero in the workplace, but if you can’t be a hero at home, then it’s not worth it.” 9:47 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

In today’s episode Adam and Rosie are talking about the importance of giving your kids responsibility as opposed to putting pressure on them, especially for older children. Why they thought about this topic is because there is quite a big gap between the eldest child and the youngest, and Adam has found himself leaning on the oldest for help, but he’s still trying to find that balance between treating him like a boy and young man. - Marble analogy 0:50 - Making it fun and exciting 2:45 - Helping them be the hero 4:20 - Where the responsibility lies 8:00 - Trying something new and enthusiastic 13:30 “I remember being drawn into conversations when I was a kid. I had NO capability of being able to process them, but people thought they were doing the right thing by informing me and communicating. So that’s where the other thing is it’s making sure there isn’t a co-dependent relationship. He’s the kid, I don’t talk to him about adult stuff. I talk to my wife about adult stuff.” 10:12 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

We are so happy to have Mike and Megan Knorpp with us today to tell us all about their amazing life journey with their family. Nearly a decade ago Mike and Megan decided that being afraid wasn’t a good enough reason not to do something. If they couldn’t come up with any other reason but fear keeping them from a dream, then they had to jump in and do it. Following that philosophy has taken their life from normal to amazing. Join us today as we hear about their amazing adventures and how this new way of thinking has helped them break out of the mundane and into a life of excitement and learning in an exceptional way. - Their life motto 1:00 - The first big thing they did 10:50 - Seeing miracles 23:00 - Travelling full time 31:30 - Solutions are just around the corner 42:00 - A magical space 51:25 - The importance of the feminine and masculine 57:35 - Training girls to create a home 64:35 “It is so easy when you’re in the moment for it to make sense to you, but when you look back and realise how crazy it was.. We were in a chocolate shop in the mountains of North Carolina on Valentine’s day and said ‘Let’s go.’ So we got on our phones and bought 11 one way tickets to Paris.” 32:38 http://www.knorppandsouth.com @knorpp_and_south https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

We apologise, Rosie got sick last week and lost her voice, so this episode will sound a bit like a whisper. We don’t know what it was, but on Sunday Rosie would just be staring at something and randomly begin to cry, and it wasn’t like little sniffles, but full on convulsing and sobbing. Rosie didn’t know where this was coming from, but then she realised that she was thinking about her mum constantly and that maybe she was now unleashing some suppressed grief. - Where the crying began 2:30 - Giving your kids opportunity to express empathy 8:30 - Where have these emotions been stored? 13:40 “So they came into my room and they had gotten loads of paper and cut out all these hearts and wrote notes to me on them, and then they took the babies and made handprints and dog prints, and they covered the front and the back of our bedroom door with just love notes to me and how much they love me. It was amazing and so nice.” 9:58 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

On today’s episode we have very special guests Glenn and Janet Colley and they share how Glenn became a one in a million medical miracle, being revived multiple times, and surviving Boerhaave Syndrome for 30 days before travelling from South Africa back to Cleveland Clinic for life saving surgery. They shared this story with Rosie a little while back and she thought it was crucial that it be documented and shared with others because of how amazing it is. - Where the story began 1:30 - Contacting the family and calling on a higher power 7:45 - Glenn’s take 12:30 - Kind and attentive staff 20:00 - An absolute powerful story 29:50 “They pulled him out and put him in a medically induced coma. The attending physician called me at the hotel that evening and said ‘There is a good chance he will not make it through the night. You need to call your family and prepare them.’” 7:45 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/

What are you fixating on to the point of an obsession? Or what are you incessantly thinking about, speaking about, or acting upon? Is it a career, a relationship, food, a material item or place, your body? Can you make it your intention to acknowledge and master this subtle distraction in your life? We all can get obsessive over all kinds of things and for various different reasons, some of which will be more healthy reasons, but others not so much and it’s our job as parents and spouses to make sure we are regulating those obsessions. - Adam’s obsession with anti-aging 1:40 - Big life changes and starting over 6:50 - Where these idols come from 13:00 “I feel like I’m nowhere near what I want to accomplish in this life, like at all, and I think that’s the other unhealthy obsession is like, creating wealth for our family, and not money for just buying stuff, but it’s more to create freedom and to create security, and to create opportunity for our kids. The world is not the place that it was when I was their age.” 3:35 https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/ Pick up a copy of Journal to Joy. My NEW 90 Day Goals, Gratitude & Affirmation Journal to Create a Happy & Abundant Life. https://www.theirishmummy.com/ Subscribe to Letters to My Sisters Newsletter. You will hear EVERYTHING here first. https://www.theirishmummy.com/