When a big milestone like high school graduation is reached, sometimes you have to look back before you move forward. Writer Kate Kopp wrote this for her daughter to reminder her of where she’s been and where she’s going. Read more from Kate Kopp on her blog, Kate’s Peace of Mind. I remember all your firsts: …
This post is brought to you by a recent Facebook status update where I mentioned that I was taking my teenage son driving. To follow-up, my son and I didn’t end up driving that day because of the weather. To be perfectly honest, I felt relieved. Then I felt guilty for feeling relieved. (Why? Because …
Debbie Pfitzenmaier and her son were pleasantly surprised to find college connections at a math meeting. Who’d of thunk it? Read more from Debbie on her blog, Freeze Dried Hippie. Spring semester – junior year. BG (my son) and I are deep in the forest. Like Hansel and Gretel, we’ve been thrown out there, not of …
So then…my grinning tween daughter Chloe says, “Oh, Mom, you’re so aDORable!” (a bit patronizingly, if you ask me) “What? I am not!” I say. “I’m a ‘hip, cool, with it’ Mom!” She laughs. “Mom, the very fact that you used those terms means you are anything but those things.” Lately I feel my …