My Love Will Follow You to College
My son is 18 years old—still a teen and yet headed off to a life at college where he won’t…
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My son is 18 years old—still a teen and yet headed off to a life at college where he won’t…
Continue Reading“Mommy, watch,” you say, as you are making a silly face with your tongue sticking out. That one little phrase…
Continue ReadingAs I sit here holding his hand and talking to him until he wakes up after his 31st surgery, I…
Continue ReadingI love that she looks just like you. She shares your fierce and wild, animal-loving spirit while also being sensitive…
Continue ReadingThere he is. Standing on first base. A boy who needs me less. I think back to 10 years ago.…
Continue Reading**Warning: The below post contains spoilers about the new Barbie movie.** “We mothers stand still so that our daughters can…
Continue ReadingThe beeping of the machine yelling to the nurses about the occluded IV snaps my mind back to the present.…
Continue ReadingMy darling daughter, Every mother wants to hand her daughter the world—not as it stands, but something better, something more…
Continue ReadingWhen I was younger, I am sure my mother yelled or lost it from time to time though I can’t…
Continue Reading“I just can’t sleep!” With red-rimmed eyes, tears still staining her cheeks, my 9-year-old daughter defeatedly shared, “No matter what…
Continue ReadingMy toddler was clinically diagnosed with autism. How do I feel about this new diagnosis? He has always been enough.…
Continue ReadingThe other day my 17-year-old daughter asked me if I wanted to see a movie. I was mid-house-and-bathroom-cleaning, and this…
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