My Nest May Soon Be Empty But I Believe My Life Will Still Be Full
I talked to a neighbor recently who is expecting her first grandchild soon. She excitedly told me about how her…
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I talked to a neighbor recently who is expecting her first grandchild soon. She excitedly told me about how her…
Continue ReadingI grew up in a small town and I still live outside that small town. My high school was not…
Continue ReadingAs a mom, I’ve always wished a postcard would come in the mail informing me that I was about to…
Continue ReadingI expected the sighs and the eye-rolls and the closed bedroom doors. After all, I was a teenager once, too,…
Continue ReadingBeing irrelevant to my teenager daughter sounds amusing and inconsequential. Becoming irrelevant is different. It’s heartbreaking. The agonizing process of losing…
Continue ReadingEach school night, somewhere between 8:30 and 9 pm, my three teenagers begrudgingly leave their phones on what I lovingly…
Continue ReadingI slept on my teenage daughter's bedroom floor last night. It wasn't a slumber party. It was just all I…
Continue ReadingBehold the 14-year-old. Starting to spread her wings. Starting to turn her gaze outward from the walls of this house…
Continue ReadingBeing a teenager is hard. I sat at the DMV with my daughter, waiting for her number to be called…
Continue ReadingI was up before the sun again. It is creeping up slower now, as the month is drawing to another…
Continue ReadingThis post originally appeared on the author's Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob…
Continue ReadingI wash the dinner pots and pans quietly as I look over at my twin daughters who are high school…
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