Dear Daughter, As You Head Off to Kindergarten
Dear Daughter, You’re starting kindergarten. And the beginning of your school journey means that we’ve got 13 years left together under the same…
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Dear Teen, Your Mother Delights in You
I was there the first time you belly laughed. You found something uproariously funny and as that laugh bubbled up and sheer happiness burst from your…
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Dear Teen: I’ll Never Stop Asking For One More Moment With You
They will say no most of the time. When you ask them to watch a movie on a Friday night. Or go for a walk after dinner. Or search for sand crabs on a…
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While She’s Still My Little Girl
I can see them, the subtle changes happening in my daughter. I see them every day. In how she lingers in front of the mirror to arrange a strand of…
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I Was 15 When I Began Starving Myself
We stopped for ice cream on the way home from your last day of kindergarten. As chocolate ice cream dripped from your cone and melted onto your hands…
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We Must Teach Our Boys About Beauty
Hey, boy moms. I need you to listen up. Because we talk a lot about how girl moms get to speak into their daughters’ hearts when it comes to beauty…
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Baby Girl, You Were Never Meant to be Ordinary
Within our family, there grows a little girl. A mighty soul in a tiny package. A fierce leader who can’t help but grit her teeth. A tiny…
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I’ll Hold My Mother’s Hands as Long as I Can
These are the hands that held me as I took my first breaths. The hands that fed me and changed my diapers and rocked me to sleep at night. The hands…
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Some Dads Were Meant to Have Daughters
Do we have a hunter green bow is a text I received from my husband while I was at work. I didn’t even know he knew what hunter green was. Once I…
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To My Daughter, 11 Things I Want You To Know Before You Turn 11
To my (not-so) little girl, Here are 11 things I want you to know before you become an 11-year-old: 1. I will always love you, no matter what.…
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