I Hope To Become The Person My Dog Thinks I Am

I did a simple post with some tips for this awhile ago but I got another ask (two weeks ago…I’m very sorry @healing-sun-witch) and I wanted to share some more tips now that I’ve been in the game almost a whole year now!

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👛🎁✨-Make a wish bag/box! I know I mentioned this in my last post but it’s been such a great thing to look back through with her approaching birthday that I want to recommend it even more. Put in wishes on scraps of paper, little tokens of luck and health, herbs, toys, etc. while you’re pregnant. Continue to add to it after the baby is born (I added her hospital bracelet as well as a solid taglock!) Mine started as a bag when I was pregnant so I could tuck it under my pillow but I transferred to a box in her nursery one she was born.

💧-Bless and enchant some grapeseed oil (with sigils and intention or herbs placed around it- NOT in the oil). Use in place of baby oil or lotion- it’s the best for newborn skin, seriously. Especially for any cradle cap or dry scalp!

🤱-Pick a special baby blanket that speaks to you the most before you’re close to your due date and spend time sleeping with it and building all the good intentions you wish for your baby. You can also stitch simple and discrete sigils onto the edges. Use this when you bundle your baby up (but still practice safe sleep!).

🍓🍌🥕🥝-Make yourself simple smoothies with fruits (and a touch of veggies for the vitamins!). Include herbs with specific intentions you might need or basic ones such as ginger or cinnamon to help with tummy grumps. Good while pregnant or breastfeeding to help keep your body nourished!

💦-Charm the soap you’ll be using to clean bottles or pacifiers or other baby items to cleanse more than dirt and germs!

📓🖊-Start a specific witchy journal/spellbook/book of shadows that you would like to share with your child in the future. Include things you did specifically for yourself as a mom or them as a child as well as stuff you did for yourself in general. Explain correspondences and steps like you would to a new witch so it can be used as a heirloom or reference book (or just an interesting thing to learn about Mom if they go a different path- nothing wrong with that!)

🌳🌷🌿-If you have your own yard, introduce the baby to your plant and tree spirits as well as your house spirits! If not, introduce your baby to a local park’s spirits! It’s such a welcoming feeling to go on walks with your baby and have the spirits greet them directly. You may notice your baby even responds in some way 😉

☔️🌬-Take an extra moment in those crazy quick showers after birth (just a moment- I know you don’t often have long!) to center yourself and focus on the water cleansing you of stress and exhaustion in addition to dirt and spit-up. Every little moment of self care can boost you a lot in those crazy first couple weeks/months.

                               “Morning will break, O sleeper awake”

“for wakanda? No question.”

Day 1 —Select a book at random in the room.  Find a novel or short story, copy down the last sentence and use this line as the first line of your new story.

Day 2 —Tell about a character who lost something important to him/her.

Day 3 —Write about the worst time you’ve ever put your foot in your mouth.

Day 4 —Write a story/excerpt to include the line, “Sorry, we can’t insure you for a journey like that.”

Day 5 —Pick a letter of the alphabet.  Now imagine two aisles of your local supermarket.  List everything found in those two aisles that begin with that letter of the alphabet.

Day 6 —Write about a person who would buy all of those items in Day 5.

Day 7 —What sets you apart from the crowd?

Day 8 —Tell your life story from someone else’s point of view.

Day 9 —What was your favorite childhood toy?

Day 10 —What do you want to be remembered for?

Day 11 —What was your first childhood pet?  Describe it in detail.

Day 12 —What is your favorite day of the week?

Day 13 —Write about a random picture you would find in an envelope of finished prints at Costco.

Day 14 —Elvis still gets 100 Valentines each year.  Tell about one of the people who sent one.

Day 15 — Create a character who is falsely accused of a crime.

Day 16 —If we assume ghosts are real, what type of ghost would you like to see?

Day 17 — Write a short scenario set in the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant.

Day 18 —Take a reader behind the wheel with the worst driver you’ve ever known.

Day 19 —Write a list of 25 (or just 5!) things you want to do in your life.

Day 20 —If you could go on only one more vacation in your lifetime, where would you go and why?

Day 21 —Find a job ad in the paper.  Write about your life if you had that job.

Day 22 —You wake up with a key gripped tightly in your hand.  How did you get this key?  What does it lock or unlock?

Day 23 —Pretend you’re a cartoon character.  What type of a character would you be?  What would a day in your life be like?

Day 24 —Write about the longest amount of time you’ve ever gone without sleeping.

Day 25 —Write a story about ‘What the Neighbors Saw.’

Day 26 —Write about your worst habit.

Day 27 —Make up a near-death experience (unless you have a real one).

Day 28 —You read about yourself in your brother/sister, girlfriend/boyfriend’s diary.  What did you read?

Day 29 —You are at a cemetery reading gravestones.  Write about one of the people you find.