Lisa writes: With summer moving swiftly, and our past family vacation just a file of photos in my camera, I realize that my reason for traveling with my kids has changed. When they were little I wanted to get them out of the house. With three small boys, a cramped space and a cold climate, …
The father daughter dance you’ll never forget. How Mary Dell Harrington’s father started a family tradition. Read more from Mary Dell on her blog about the empty nest, Grown and Flown. Mary Dell writes: Tonight I feel like Cinderella, left behind to clean while her step-sisters attend the ball. My husband and our sixteen year old …
Mary Dell writes: As the mom of a teenage daughter, I occasionally feel like I am parenting on a separate planet from my friends who have teenage sons. At Lisa’s house, sports are in full swing, and the mountains of standardized tests and specter of finals loom ahead. At my house, we have all of that plus what can …
Lisa writes: A few months from now my husband and I will truly live in an empty nest and our real problems will begin. With two boys away at college and one to go, we are in a period of transition that helps me get ready for that day when time will stop. Unfortunately, nothing can fully prepare …
Mary Dell Harrington, one half of the Grown and Flown team, writes about one of her favorite things – dogs! On that late afternoon last August after we dropped off our youngest child at her freshman dorm, my husband and I returned home as empty nesters. Having dogs (in our case two) but no children …
