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Dear Son, When You No Longer Want Kisses from Mama

When you are older and moodier and when things no longer excite you like they once did, I’ll remember your pants on crooked as your little legs…

November is National Adoption Awareness month and over the years we’ve been an adoptive family, my feelings about this month have run the…

There is something about the wonder of Christmas through the eyes of a child. The way they stand in awe of a brightly-lit Christmas tree; how they…

I was never overly sensitive to other people’s comments about my life. Innocuous observations about how long my husband and I lived together…

Dear Grandma, I am one of the blessed ones to have grown up with you by my side. You taught me to crack an egg, do my own laundry, and that there is…

$My Son is More Than a Test Score$

I gave my 10-year-old a math test today. He spent nearly an hour and used four sheets of scratch paper. He worked each problem with intense…

I’m not sure why I have you or how come I get to, but I’m so happy that I do! Since the day I was born, you’ve been there with big…

“I’m going to say grace without you!” I remind my 5-year-old as he wanders around the living room. Everyone else is sitting at the table with…

I was at a wedding a little while ago, sitting next to a grandmother of three young children. “Honestly,” she said, “kids these days have no…

Is my kid too sick to go to daycare/school? Do I need to call in to work? Should I scramble and have a back-up sitter on call “just in case?” Am…