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I’m So Proud of the Young Man You’re Becoming, My Son

That first day of kindergarten feels like a million years ago when I think of all that you’ve learned since then. And yet to my mama heart it feels…

A boy sits across the table from me. He is about half-grown, he just recently reached double digits. He looks at me and I see his daddy. He laughs…

Hey kids, I love where you’re at right now. Like, right this moment. No, it’s not because both of you are tucked in bed, the sweetness of sleep…

Yes, I should’ve seen . . . or smelled it coming. On a recent shoe shopping adventure, we stood in the aisle and I wondered who I could give a…

There are a few things I want to share with my daughter about the strangely awesome rollercoaster ride she’s about to take called middle…

“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain…

I watch her as she sits on the back porch, laughing with her friends. She pushes her long, dark hair behind her ear and talks excitedly. She smiles…

She is quietly fierce, intensely independent, and passionate about her beliefs, but a soft-hearted caregiver who is loyal to the end. My girl. My…

“You’re going to read her texts, right?” other mothers asked, when I bought my daughter Molly a cell phone in fourth grade. I thought back to…