Parenting

Junior high is right around the corner – this time for my daughter! I should feel like an old pro, but I’ll admit I’m a little nervous. I’ve charted this territory before with my son, but it’s a bit...

"Bye! Have fun! I love you!" I shouted at the retreating figure of my 10-year-old as he ran towards the door of my mother's house for a sleepover. "Remember ... no watching the news!" My mom loves the news. She watches...

Several months after my son was born, I was blindsided by a major realization. It wasn’t the one where I realized that many sounds he made would automatically make me run through a mental list of possible ailments. {Pneumonia?...

Recently I made my son do something he hated. Something that was hard and did not at all come easy to him. Something that for 14 straight days ended in him crying and telling me that he wanted to quit....

It's the middle of the summer. The house is a dump. The kids have devolved into something resembling several chapters from the worst part of Lord of the Flies, and I sit here in the floor, like Piggy holding...

Christina Yang and Meredith Grey. Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani. Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen. Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer. Woody and Buzz Lightyear. My son and his lovey. His lovey...his very best friend. His person. It’s so special to him; it’s...

The walls are quickly closing in on my time in my reproductive years. For the past 6 years, I've been having a constant conversation with myself {and my mama tribe} about planning to have babies, trying to have babies, carrying...

I never really cared for arcades - or video games in general. As a former high school teacher, I can recall countless parent-teacher conferences in which students were failing my class because of their after-school video game addictions. Instead...

There are three of them, one me. Life is moving fast these days, and I often feel like the day is spent in the details. Who has eaten breakfast? Does the youngest have a dirty diaper? Please hurry and...

We have all been there.  That moment when after a crazy day of work, chef duties, referee duties, diaper duty, and bedtime, you finally find 10 minutes to check Facebook and feel like for a brief moment you are...