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To my teenage son, Here you are. Standing on the doorstep of total teenage-ness. Brace yourself, buddy… They don’t refer to them as the years of angst for nothin’. There will be irrational emotions that arise in your heart and plummet into your gut without warning. There will…
Don’t Get Me Started On The Bloody Car Line It’s petty. I know. But. For. Gosh. Darn. Sake. (Trust me. I could say it differently, but there are children present, after all)… I digress. What is so hard about it? The car line. The morning and afternoon torture-chamber…
I pretty much earned the title: Mother-of-the-Year (please hold your applause). air kiss, air kiss. Yep. I called my kids A-holes!!!! LOUDLY. Unapologetically. In my defense… These dweebs turned into complete maniacs. small detail. Albeit, they both are deaf and with their…
We spend so much of our time in the throes of the daily grind. Alarms and wake-ups; carpools and car lines; homework and activities. We go. And go. Only. To repeat. During those times we tend to get short, our patience thin. There’s little time for carefree, kicking back…
I want to raise a daughter who is kind, empathetic, and thoughtful. But I also want to teach her it is OK to defend herself when needed. A girl can be all these things. Strong, bold, kind, and caring. But, if you don’t respect her boundaries, she should know how to…
Raising kids is hard work. Raising good humans is even harder. There are so many things I want my kids to know, but these are just a few that came to mind on a road trip to our favorite mountain town. Riding in the car has a way of giving you plenty of time to reflect.
Kids these days! Let’s just be thankful for growing up before social media. What a gift to survive the teen years in a time where there is no proof of all the dumb things we did (with the exception of strips of negatives in the bottom of a box somewhere!) Slow clap to that!
I hope everyone finds at least one friend who will be their biggest cheerleader but will also call them out on their crap. I have been blessed to have two of them in my life. They are the first to sing my praises but never hesitate to be my truth tellers…
We spend so much of our time in the throes of the daily grind. Alarms and wake-ups; carpools and car lines; homework and activities. We go. And go. Only. To repeat. During those times we tend to get short, our patience thin. There’s little time for carefree, kicking back…
