My parents wanted to give our toddlers a yearly membership gift to visit their favorite places. It turns out, there are endless options in...
I dreaded it for years. The hormones. The backtalk. The eye rolls. Uncontrolled emotions. His awkwardness. My awkwardness answering certain "questions." Seven class changes...
"How was your day?" "Fine."
"Is everything okay?" "Yeah."
These one-word exchanges are all too familiar to parents of kids and teens. While it can be...
November is National Adoption Month, so there's lots of talk about surrounding giving children homes and families, who otherwise don't have them. But let's...
The first year I was eligible to vote was 1996. It was the year Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole (and Ross Perot) in a...
My daughter and I were out on a girls' shopping trip on Sunday afternoon. The boys were at home doing what they do —...
Thirteen. That's how many first days of school I've experienced as a mother. Some were filled with tears. Some were filled with relief, as...
As my daughter gets ready to start her senior year of high school, I am learning real quick that the idea of sending your...
Children get asked this age-old question all the time, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Oftentimes, they might ambitiously respond...
Saturday afternoon in midst of a Netflix binge, my husband suggested we put a sheet over our living room window to get rid of...
It seems like there is a day for everything — National Daughters Day, National Sons Day, heck, even National Pets Day. Don't get me...
The 5 stages of prom dress shopping. That was the original title of this scheduled blog. The idea capturing me as I spent a...