Childhood Is Not a Race
Sweet child, I know you want to grow up. You want to get older and do more and more. I…
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Sweet child, I know you want to grow up. You want to get older and do more and more. I…
Continue ReadingThere is something incredibly special about band kids. The hours of practice that begin in elementary school. It’s the squeaking…
Continue ReadingOn her seventh day of school, my kindergartener doesn't cry. It was a long road to this day. For the…
Continue ReadingSix . . . Six is only one number more than five, one grade, one year . . . but it…
Continue ReadingThere’s something about football boys. Maybe it’s the sunrise practices when the heat is too strong mid-afternoon. Or maybe it’s…
Continue ReadingAfter putting in a full busy week, with countless other parents, we flocked to the sidelines to cheer our little…
Continue ReadingDear oldest child, Thanks for taking one for the team. You’ve probably thought by now that Dad and I really…
Continue ReadingI love to watch the moms in the stands. Because they know. They know the hours that have added up…
Continue ReadingWe’re on our way home from another weekend soccer tournament out of town, a familiar routine for my family of…
Continue ReadingAn encouragement to the mom of the strong-willed child . . . I didn’t realize that was a thing in…
Continue ReadingI’ve never been much of a New Year’s Eve person . . . maybe it’s the teacher in me, or…
Continue ReadingShe looked up at me with the most hopeful, delighted green-blue eyes, “Look what I got, Mama!” And out from…
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