Yet Another Thing I Will Miss When My Kid Goes to College
We are less than a month away from the day that we leave our older son behind at college and head home to a slightly emptier house. In order to avoid thinking about that for too long, I have been...
View ArticleI’m Fragile, But At Least I’m Organized
This is an emotional time in our house: our oldest is leaving for college and our youngest is starting high school. I feel like I have no control over the events that are unfolding and I’m not ready....
View ArticleWhen I Grow Up I Want To Be…
When you were little did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up? I mean really know? And, more importantly, is that what you became? I wanted to be, among other things, an investigative...
View ArticleGet A Job!
I was driving my younger son and his friend to soccer practice when they both started lamenting how busy they are this summer. My son’s friend is starting driver’s education as soon as soccer ends...
View ArticleA Different Angle
As I dropped my youngest son off this morning for the last day of his sophomore year in high school I was reminded of the day, two years ago, when I dropped off my oldest son at his high school for the...
View ArticleParenting In An Age of Uncertainty
I spent the morning setting up emergency contact information on my boys’ phones and researching the best tracking app to add to my 16-year-old’s phone for his weekend at Lollapalooza, the outdoor music...
View ArticleWhy You Couldn’t Pay Me Enough To Go Back To High School
I was flipping through channels on television the other day and came across the movie, Never Been Kissed, starring Drew Barrymore as a 25-year-old newspaper reporter who returns to high school for a...
View ArticleCollege Trippin’– Beyond the Guidebooks
Four years ago I took my oldest son on his first set of college tours—eight schools in five days. That’s a lot of schools in a short period of time and I normally wouldn’t recommend it but I brought...
View ArticleThe Last First Day of High School
When I first quit my job to stay home with my kids I had big plans. Being with my kids was my only job and I was going to make the most of it. Those warnings about “appreciating the time with your...
View ArticleIt’s Not Personal. It’s Parenting.
For a long time if one of my kids looked at me with disdain, snapped at me, or rolled his eyes, my blood would boil. How could they? I would wonder. I do everything for these kids and this is how they...
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