There’s Something Special about Band Kids
There is something incredibly special about band kids. The hours of practice that begin in elementary school. It’s the squeaking…
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There is something incredibly special about band kids. The hours of practice that begin in elementary school. It’s the squeaking…
Continue ReadingHow do I best mother my 22- and 27-year-old sons? Naturally, I will always be their mother; it’s a lifelong…
Continue ReadingMy youngest daughter will start kindergarten in less than a week. She is the third of three girls, and after…
Continue Reading“Mommy, watch,” you say, as you are making a silly face with your tongue sticking out. That one little phrase…
Continue ReadingI adopted your babies today. We’re smiling in the pictures, but I also feel the pain deep inside your heart.…
Continue ReadingI love my children enormously, but I don’t always love the details of mothering. Loving my kids looks like quiet…
Continue ReadingI have four kids, so I have felt many levels of exhaustion over the past 13 years since becoming a…
Continue ReadingMy worst fear had been realized. When I heard his feet hit the floor and his door open, I knew…
Continue ReadingBecoming a stepparent actually doesn’t happen in one day or the day you say, “I do.” It takes time. Stepparenting…
Continue ReadingMy (almost) 8-year-old daughter came in from tidying the yard and readying it for play to hand me the plastic,…
Continue ReadingYou rarely hear about relationships built between people who've never met, much less with someone who has passed on. The…
Continue ReadingTeachers, thank you for all you do for our kids and for the ways you build them up. This past…
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