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I knew the day was coming. Almost every mother of a son I know eventually becomes dwarfed by her baby…
Continue Reading“Oh, really?” “Are you sure?” “You can always try for a fourth!” “You just have to have one, they’re so…
Continue ReadingToday, my 19-year-old son moved out to go live on his own. He has been preparing to move out for…
Continue Reading"We should get married someday, Mama!" your eyes lit up with excitement as if it was the greatest idea in…
Continue ReadingYesterday, I sat at my dining room table across from my 16-year-old, watching him wrap a Christmas present. I indulged…
Continue ReadingPeople prepared me well to parent babies and toddlers. There were lots of books, advice, and frequent check-ins. I couldn’t…
Continue ReadingYou are about to turn nine. That puts you about halfway to the age at which you will leave home…
Continue ReadingThis is the one I lost for 42 seconds at Garden of the Gods last summer because he went off…
Continue ReadingIf you haven't listened to the new Christmas album from Carrie Underwood entitled My Gift, I highly recommend it. I've been…
Continue ReadingI saw a British McDonald's commercial yesterday featuring an animated mom and tween boy that got me RIGHT in the…
Continue ReadingThirteen years ago, after two failed inductions (who knew you could be on Pitocin TWICE and still leave the hospital…
Continue ReadingI plunk down into my restaurant chair, four busy children under 10 scuttling around me. The baby squalling because he…
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