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"Carolina's pearls of wisdom have become
a highlight of my week. She has an uncanny ability to communicate the joys and sorrows, ups and downs, highlights and lowlights
of everyday life. While her target audience is primarily Moms, I have pased along her newsletters to a much broader audience
(husband, children, grandparents and friends). She gets rave reviews from each of them!" Abigail Cahill, mother of three
"I just wanted
to thank you for sending me the ROCKET MOM! newsletter each Monday morning. It is such a bright spot in the beginning of my
week. The time and energy that goes into writing something both inspiring and informative must only come from your heart.
Thank you for my weekly "pick me up" and for reminding me of the bigger picture when it comes to mothering. Your contribution
to my life is truly appreciated." Heather
Schmid, mother of two
"Your newsletters are so
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interesting. Of course, being with young people always creates excitement and interest!" Janet English, Rocket Grandmom!
"Dear Carolina: I love Monday mornings! I feel like it is Christmas every
Monday. I get up a little earlier just so I can have time to open your e-mail. Sometimes I am really pushed for time
so I just print it off and take it with me in the car. When i do this, I always hope the first stoplight I have leaving
my neighborhood is red. It is a full five minutes! I know I can quickly read your ROCKET MOM! newsletter within that
time. Then I look forward to reading it later on in the day with a hot cup of tea so I can savour every word of it....."
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Carolina - your ROCKET MOM! newsletters
are such a blessing!! I am planning to print them all out and place them in a notebook!!!
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"Carolina-have I told you how much I enjoy reading your newsletters
each Monday? What a joy to begin the week with inspiring thoughts from you..." Kathy
Brooks, mother of two
"My days are full of this and that, and today I was so tired even thinking
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amusing letter from my daugher, and my weekly newsletter from you. What cheer you often bring to me in this isolated place."
Orlanda Rowan, mother of one
"Dear Carolina: Great Newsletter! You have such a gift for writing AND for
staying up-beat! Very inspiring. Thank you." Terri Kohart, mother of two
"I read your newsletters each week with interest and attention. Although I
approach my parenting tasks from a non-religious perspective, I arrive at the same ethical destination: striving to raise
moral, thoughtful, happy, and fulfilled citizens of this world...This
newsletter...touched a chord when you talked about the universality of feeling overwhelmed. And as you said this week, that
"met me exactly in the moment in which I needed it." I know that at least once a week, I will get another confirmation that
I'm doing difficult, important work as a mother; and perhaps, I'll get a boost or a pat on the back for some particular aspect
of that work. Thank you!" Naomi Kroeger, mother of three
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Look no further. Every Monday morning--at 5 AM (EST)--my
weekly Newsletter will pop into your Inbox.
Read it in your jammies. Read it while you're nursing
your newborn. Read it and laugh. Or weep.
I'm coming from where you are. Kids underfoot. Sleep-deprived.
Staring at laundry piles. Packing lunchboxes. Dreading after-school traffic.
Visit with me. Pick up an insight or two. Share
a story with me. Gleam a mommyhood tip from my anecdotes. And then pass it along to your friends.
Together, we can enjoy the rocket ride through motherhood
with fresh wit, energy, and inspiration for building families of excellence!
Hugs and God bless,
Carolina
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Spinning Your Holiday Web
If you’re in the same part of the Holiday preparation cycle as I am, you spent a good portion of this weekend shopping,
standing in lines and fighting traffic. Making your list. And checking it twice. I was so crazed for a couple hours out that
I actually did some shopping without first making my list…only to find once home that I should have doubled or tripled
or even quadrupled some of the goodies discovered along the way. Nothing like hyperventilating for some shopping time sans
kids or spouse without a little mental preparation first……
I faced the weekend wonderfully exhausted, returning about 1 AM Friday (after weather delays into La Guardia stalled my flight
into the wee hours of the night) from a four day trip to Art Basel Miami Beach (organized by a man genius in the art world
but for crying out loud, certainly not a rocket mom! I mean, who in their right mind would organize an international art fair
during the month of December? Does he not have shopping-wrapping-shipping responsibilities?!?)
Anywho, I came back with my new friend with whom I attended the fair. Spectacular! And she wound up spending the night with
me before heading back home. With about one hundred friends coming for brunch that morning, she went into over-drive to help
me get my act together! Making ham party sandwiches, putting desserts on platters, lighting candles. She was a dream! And
a brand new person spun into my web.
The doorbell rang all Friday morning, with friends popping in for coffee, cheer and chats. Holiday hugs were freely exchanged.
It was a delightful way for my husband and I to kick off the holidays in our own little corner of the world.
And so as I watched each person come and go, I couldn’t help but think about how many of these friends have been in
my web for less than a year. Many were professional associates, met in the normal course of business in my day job; others
were friends of friends or spouses of friends. And some have been friends since we moved to Connecticut the first time, a
little over seven years ago.
So when I finally took the time to do the preparation for that making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice-drill, I was struck by
how, over the years, friends come and friends go. How they seem to be there for a season of our lives…and then quietly
disappear as we enter another one. How they come in and spend a lot of quality time there and we assume that they’ll
always be this intertwined in the daily activities of our lives, only to wake up to the realization that they will undoubtedly
move on. And that others will fill that space that formerly held their reservations. And that it will happen without fanfare.
And that one day you’ll realize as you look at your Holiday list, that some of your closest friends from last year do
not even share a space in your life anymore.
And that it’s okay.
Because I tend to be like a golden retriever—holding on to people and rarely ever letting go—this sad little fact
of life always used to put a lump in my throat. I hated how friends from past homes and cities around the country are simply
no longer in my life, since the “exiter” was almost always not me, but the other party. He or she had simply dropped
out. Moved on. Not meaning to be mean or hurtful or rude. But just because others now met needs once met by me.
Perhaps it’s called maturity. Or maybe it’s just waking up to some un-desired facts of life. But friends will
not always be friends, except in a very few rare instances. And I am blessed beyond measure by those few precious gems. For
webs get spun. And then they blow away and need to be spun yet again. With different threads. Different patterns. One not
more beautiful than another necessarily. Just different.
One of the lessons of this Holiday for me has been the sharp realization that some of my friends will be with me forever and
some will not. Some have come into my life and I into theirs because we are supposed to be bound forever and others have come
into my life and I into theirs because we needed each other but for a season.
As you make your list and check it twice, give yourself—and others—the freedom to move on as needed. The separation
might hurt for a little bit. For a day or a month. But others will silently move in to fill the void. And you will meet each
other exactly where you need to.
Enjoy the Holidays with those whom you really love. Really enjoy your in-your-web friends. Don’t take this season of
these friendships for granted. Meet them exactly where they are and enjoy them for all they are meant to be.
Until next week, many blessings….
Carolina
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