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Giveaway #21—Seeing the Everyday
“Jeesie-Pooh” and Rebecca have won this giveaway!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
In my motherhood post I shared with you a beautiful publication that inspires me to continue on, that brings my spirits up in times of need and helps me realize how sacred my role as a parent is.
Seeing the Everyday is awarding two yearly subscriptions to their wonderful publication.
“Seeing the Everyday is a quarterly, advertisement-free magazine focusing on the family interactions taking place at home. Although these exchanges are often seen as mundane or inconsequential, the sum of our daily exchanges is what shapes a family, for better or for worse. Building a strong family truly is a prosaic work.
There are many important things worthy of our attention, and of utmost importance is strong relationships in families. For when children learn to be honest, work hard and communicate well at home, they develop into sound individuals who take their experience into their community and future families. These virtues are developed most profoundly in prosaic moments together, and it is the collective sum of these moments that shapes the character of an individual. Seeing the Everyday hopes to encourage individuals to think about prosaic moments and realize all that can takes place within them.
Seeing the Everyday seeks to honestly tell and simply show the everyday beauties found in quiet and humble moments of our own homes and yards with those whom we love most. It documents through word and image real stories of the ordinary scenarios that occur in family—finding poetry in the prosaic.
The stories demonstrate the true nature of family and how daily, “mindless” tasks such as cooking meals, cleaning the garage, making beds and taking out the trash become critical exchanges and valuable moments together between parents and children. As shared by a mother in our first issue, “Every time I invite a child to place their hands into the warm, soapy water with mine, I learn something new about their spirit and life. It is only when doing dishes together that my twelve-year-old son, who mostly speaks in monosyllables about his experiences at school, reveals who his friends are and why he has chosen them, the pressure he feels about his grades, how much he likes math, and what he thinks about his teach.”
We believe the words and images of these stores will inspire and encourage readers in their efforts to strengthen family interactions.”
To buy a subscription, click here.
To win this giveaway (and there will be two winners!):
-Comments on this post once
-Share what inspires YOU as a parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle, etc.
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Hello! I love watching my sons interact with my dad who is 90 years old. He tells them his childhood memories and his WWII experiences. Recently, my oldest son had to write a “Tribute”
speech and it wrote it about his grandpa. My husband is also a very positive role model in our two sons’ lives. I couldn’t ask for more. Thanks, Cindi
I’ve never heard of this magazine but it sounds really nice, I’d love to be entered. Thanks.
Oh wow! I don’t know why I’ve never heard of this magazine before. I would love to have a subscription to this magazine. My children inspire me to be a better mother everyday. I watch them and their curiosity and desire to learn and it encourages me to learn with them – to go on adventures and make believe. I am grateful, and humbled, every day to be a mother and love my family. Thank you for pointing this magazine out.
Merry Christmas,
Brittany
As always, great giveaways! I have a four year old son and instill in him every day the importance of being respectful, honest to others and true to himself. I know when he grows up he will be such a gentleman. He is my best friend ever!
What inspires me is how great my parents were with me. I try to be like them with my daughter.
As a mother, I just love waking up to my beautiful little girl each day. She makes life so happy for me. Just seeing her face inspires me to be better that day, to play with her and make each moment something I will never regret.
I’m inspired on a daily basis by my three-year-old who looks at the world with new eyes, glimpsing the possibility and magic that comes out when she plays.
I love watching Roo (4 3/4) and Jasper (17 months) interact. I am an only child so seeing my kids develop their sibling bond is a source of neverending fascination for me.
My children constantly amaze and inspire me. I love watching them grow and interact. I have four, ages 8, 6, 3 and 9 months old. They are each so unique and wonderful. I feel like I have made a positive influence on teh world by raising four people who will be positive beneficial members of society.
Seeing the beauty in everyday life is not always easy but I try. I am constantly amazed by my daughter as she grows and having lost my mother just over 10 years ago I spend a lot of time thinking about the little things I do with her and sometimes remembering but often wondering if my mother did the same things with me.
My children inspire me.
Another very interesting giveaway. What I enjoy most as a mother of a 5 yr old and a 2.5 yr old is hearing their conversations with each other. They are so honest with their ever changing feelings and it is most evident when they speak to each other. They inspire me to connect and be honest with others around me. Even just giving a smile to a stranger could the way their day is going.
Looks like a really nice magazine. I like the theme of it.
What inspires me the most is my son. Hearing the things that he says makes me want to teach him and learn from him. The best experience of my life.
What inspires me as a parent is the profound things my children say, that remind me that they teach me as often and as much as I teach them.
Oh, I would love to win this – my second baby will be a week old tomorrow, and I know that in the coming months I will be NEEDING some inspiration as I wrangle him…and his two year old sister!
My inspiration comes from…meditation? Just pondering situations, and looking at them from all different angles.
I’m “only” a wife right now (unless you count mother to my two furbabies). But I love the simple evenings we spend together just watching a movie together or playing a game. These are the moments that will be rare whenever we begin our own family, and I cherish them all.
This sounds fantastic!
This is the first I have heard but sounds like a wonderful magazine that I will end up subscribing to in the future. I love watching my daughters grow up around my grandma who is 86. It is wonderful. They learn from each other and she has helped reinforce values, morals and family history with them. It\’s great!
adamnsarahsmall@yahoo.com
I really want this one, too. I would have to say that what inspires me as a parent/aunt is the creation process. I love to create things and I don’t have a lot of time to do that with a two year old running around but sometimes I get reminded that while caring for this boy, I am creating something more wonderful than anything that goes through a sewing machine (though he has tried to do that himself a few times).
Watching my daughters sleep at night puts parenting into perspective, as well as every time they crawl into my lap to snuggle
jceko77@yahoo.com
I am inspired by my teenagers and their perspective on life. I know that they will go out into the world and try to make it a better place.
thanks for sharing
ceashark at aol dot com
carolyn s
I am inspired everyday by the way my daughter looks at me! My boys have grown a little older and, for the most part, don’t still see me as infallable. She still does and it makes me want to at least try to live up to what she sees me as. Right now her face is always full of trust and love. I’m soaking it all in as a store for when the day come that she realizes I’m not perfect.
I am inspired by the fact that our goal of growing our boys to be self-sufficient is paying off in more ways that one. When I watch them navigate this world, it amazes me.
Inspired by the joy in simple things that my daughter (all kids) enjoy.
The arts inspire me every day, would love to get this publication.
“Seeing the everyday” seems to try to hide its Mormon roots. I wonder why that is…