Not Sure If She’ll Join Your Girls Night Out? Invite Her Anyway.
Who doesn’t love dinner out with friends? Maybe some tacos with a slice of cheesecake at the end with lots of laughter and witty or heartfelt…
Continue ReadingWhat’s a Mother to Do When Her Kids Are Grown?
“It’s as though I’m facing a forced retirement,” I whispered with a tear-choked voice to my husband while attempting to explain my…
Continue ReadingGrown Children, Motherhood, Teen
Dear High School Senior, I Can’t Believe We’re Here Already
I never imagined these days of preparing for graduation, senior prom, senior photos, and you actually moving out would come. A few weeks into your…
Continue ReadingSome Days We’re Strangers, Some Days We’re Stronger
Some days we’re strangers. Some days we’re stronger. It’s a feeling I’ve stumbled across in my marriage, particularly after we became…
Continue ReadingI’ll Hold on To Moments of Childhood with My Preteen as Long as I Can
This Christmas season, my husband took our laser light projector and aimed it at the Australian bottle tree in the front yard. It shone like a…
Continue ReadingYou Are Worth Being Well
I stood on the scale and took a big sigh. This was almost 50 pounds more than two years ago. Fifty reasons why I don’t feel pretty in my clothes.…
Continue ReadingSo God Made Me a Dog Mom (Again)
If you had told me that day we were bringing home a puppy, I would have said you were crazy. The deep hole in my heart left by our first family dog,…
Continue Reading“Tell Me Another Story, Daddy?”
“Tell me another story, Daddy?” I had heard these words since we had finished supper. My 5-year-old son loves hearing stories. He loves…
Continue ReadingMay is Complete Mayhem: 8 Tips for Making it Through
Dear moms, Before I had kids, I didn’t know about the turbulence in the chaotic month of May, the most wonderful season that feels busier than…
Continue ReadingKids, Motherhood, Teen, Tween
Getting Glasses Can be an Adjustment
On their last break from school, my daughter and son happily enjoyed a nice week of catching up with friends and having a relaxed schedule. I was…
Continue ReadingLosing a Brother, Understanding My Mother
At the end of his life, I didn’t like my brother. That feels awful to say. It probably is awful. My brother died at 35 years old of liver failure.…
Continue ReadingYou Make Our Marriage Work and I Love You More than Ever
I used to write love letters to you. I’d sit in my dorm room for hours, penning pages of poems that you’ve apparently kept in a drawer in our…
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