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Grown Children, Kids
December 7, 2018
6 Minute Read

Battling the Sting of Toxic Relatives: Why Our Kids Need Us to Show Them How

In dealing with our difficult relatives, the troublemaker kind who seem to blight most family trees, my husband and I have always attempted to shield…

Grown Children, Motherhood
November 8, 2018
6 Minute Read

Dear Mom, I Still Need You

Dear Mom, After we welcomed my first baby—my daughter, your first grandchild—into the world, I was so overwhelmed with sudden and blindly…

Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
November 5, 2018
4 Minute Read

The Mental Load of Mothering a Teen

“Kids are messy.” I remember my mother telling me that, long ago when I was pregnant with my first daughter, and I didn’t believe her. How…

Baby, Child, Grown Children, Teen, Toddler, Tween
October 9, 2018
2 Minute Read

Our Babies Grow When We Aren’t Looking

I was going to sit with the baby this morning but the laundry was piled sky high. I placed her in the play pen to watch me fold the towels. I looked…

Grown Children, Journal
October 7, 2018
8 Minute Read

The Stranger I Call Mother

When my mother called me last September, I was surprised by how easily I still recognized the sound of her voice. When I was four years old, my…

Child Loss, Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
September 28, 2018
6 Minute Read

Why I Got a Tattoo With My Teenage Daughters

“We should get a tattoo, Mom.” I laughed. I knew it was just my younger daughter, Sarah’s way of getting herself a tattoo—to go along with…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood, Teen
September 26, 2018
4 Minute Read

I Miss the Chaos and Crumbs in my Backseat

I caught myself looking in the rear view mirror while driving yesterday searching for the little girls who used to sit in booster seats singing away…

Child, Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
August 27, 2018
4 Minute Read

Spread Your Wings and Fly, My Darling

Twenty years. It is hard to wrap my mind around that number. Twenty years ago this month, at the ripe old age of 17, I was in the process of sorting…

Grown Children, Journal, Motherhood, Relationships
August 24, 2018
4 Minute Read

Dear Mom, I’m All Grown Up But I Still Need You

Dear Mom, I get it now. I get why you would hide in your bathroom and beg us to leave you alone. You weren’t being selfish or crabby. You were…

Grown Children, Kids, School, Teen
August 22, 2018
7 Minute Read

6 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids Before They Leave the Nest

Your child is getting ready to fly away from the nest. He’s going to college—or moving away to work and live on his own. You’ve spent the last…