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…
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“Kids are messy.” I remember my mother telling me that, long ago when I was pregnant with my first daughter, and…
Continue ReadingI was going to sit with the baby this morning but the laundry was piled sky high. I placed her…
Continue ReadingWhen my mother called me last September, I was surprised by how easily I still recognized the sound of her…
Continue Reading“We should get a tattoo, Mom.” I laughed. I knew it was just my younger daughter, Sarah’s way of getting…
Continue ReadingI caught myself looking in the rear view mirror while driving yesterday searching for the little girls who used to…
Continue ReadingTwenty years. It is hard to wrap my mind around that number. Twenty years ago this month, at the ripe…
Continue ReadingDear Mom, I get it now. I get why you would hide in your bathroom and beg us to leave…
Continue ReadingYour child is getting ready to fly away from the nest. He’s going to college—or moving away to work and…
Continue ReadingWhen your firstborn goes to college, he piles his things in the car and hugs his little brothers goodbye. “Why…
Continue ReadingTo my mom: I’m lying on my bed hiding right now. I can hear the kids bickering as they get…
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