Welcome to Savannah Ivanitski (on Instagram - @sivanitski), writer, wife, and mom of two boys. I will never say “I don’t have time,” and it's not because I'm a superhero who has found a way to do everything and be everything. Most days there are things that don’t get done—to-do items that go …
The Lightbulb Moments that Teach Us to Slow Down
There's nothing like a newborn to make you realize how fast time goes by. Her eyes locked onto mine as she lazily sucked her bottle. I looked around at my friend's family room, where I sat feeding her baby a bottle. The sofa strewn with burp cloths and swaddling blankets, the kitchen counter …
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Get Through the Hard Parts of Motherhood with THIS in Mind
I'm a big fan of seeking out the positive and accentuating the best life has to offer, but today I’m going to be perfectly real in the sense that sometimes life, and motherhood in particular, can be tough—heart-wrenching even. I can’t help but ask myself the following questions as I think about …
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If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again | Printable
We all want to be present—to be really there—for the belly laughs and the mischief, for the toddler demands that are so unreasonable they're funny and for the surprisingly deep conversations with an eight-year-old. As I said in a recent post, this is our motherhood. We only get to do it …
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How to Have Less To Do
We all know the feeling—the feeling of swimming inside your brain because you've got so much to do you can barely keep track of it all. I don't think anyone likes it, but short of quitting your responsibilities and moving to an undiscovered island, how do you really have less to do? When It's …
What I’m Into | February 2017
Reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Something about me resists super-trends until they’ve died down. So now that everyone else in the world has read this book, I am. ;) As you know, I’m already pretty minimal, but this has inspired even me to donate another trunk-full and to continue …
