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Packing a House, Enjoying the Moments and Making New Memories
The last several weeks have been spent going through my entire house — deciding what stays and what goes — in preparation for our upcoming move to Indiana. I’ve been sorting, purging and filling the...
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Election Thoughts: Choosing Hope, Not Hate
I think we can ALL agree this week has been a whirlwind of emotion and chaos. It certainly has for me. I spent the better part of Wednesday and Thursday in tears, feeling as if I was mourning a loss....
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Painting Rocks and Creating Little Moments That Matter
There’s a line of dialogue from the movie “20th Century Women” that struck me when I first heard it, and continues to stay with me today. Annette Bening says to a friend of her teenage son: “You get...
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My Adventures as a Generation X Parent Raising an iGeneration Kid
I am a proud member of Generation X. I was born in 1975, making me 43-years-old. My formative years were the late 1980s and early 90s. I graduated high school in 1993. At that time, technology in my...
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And in a Moment, a Volume Closes and a New Book Begins
Today is a bittersweet day. It’s Sophie’s last day of fifth grade; her last day of elementary school. She’s now officially a sixth grader, bound for middle school in August. Some days, it feels like...
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Let’s Talk About What’s Not Talked About: Parenting in the Tween Years
When I started this blog, Sophie was a mere 2-years-old. I wrote about all those new milestone moments of motherhood, like going from the crib to a toddler bed, saying goodbye to the baby monitors,...
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Learning to Dance with Anger
This photo of a shattered dinner plate in my sink … this is anger. Last week, Sophie and I got into an argument that left me extremely frustrated. I won’t go into the specifics of why we disagreed....
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Back to School and Raising an (Almost) Teen in Unprecedented Times
This is not your typical back-to-school blog post. In September 1987, I started my seventh grade year in middle school. My biggest worry was whether I’d be able to handle being placed in GATE classes...
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Teach Your Children Well … Words to Parent By
I’ve been thinking a lot about parenthood lately (the status of being a parent, not the television show). Even though I’ve had so many things to write about, I haven’t been writing about the parenting...
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Accepting the Body I Cannot Change
This is a sensitive topic for me and I hesitated even sharing it as a post. But I remembered this is my personal space, and the place I feel most comfortable sharing my thoughts. And further, it’s a...
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