This gallery contains 7 photos.
This list is a piggy-back to my last post (see HERE), when a fight with a grocery cart led to a revelation on just how empathy-deficient we have become in America. My revelation further led to some unscientific (re: Google) … Continue reading
This gallery contains 6 photos.
Today was a bad day. I’ve been battling some sort of sinus infection for about a week now. This morning I woke with pasted eyes shut and a painful headache. A trip to urgent care was in my immediate future. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
Dear Teacher, I am your student’s parent. I know that she’ll have plenty of teachers along her path in education, but there’s only one me. I’m the most important influence in her life, or at least I’d like to think … Continue reading
This gallery contains 4 photos.
Yesterday, while driving my two younger kids home from seeing Earth to Echo (think E.T. meets Blair Witch Project), I heard an enlightened radio announcer discussing ways to keep our precious children safe this summer. Her ramblings went from bike … Continue reading
This gallery contains 4 photos.
My memories of summer as a child were…well…mostly uneventful. We drudged through week after week of school, counting the days down ‘til summer, and then our dreams finally became reality somewhere in the early weeks of June. About 2.2 days … Continue reading
What a wonderfully insightful post on what it really means to have a troubled teen.
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Somewhere along the continuum of historical parenting, it’s become norm to demonstrate our love for our kids by making them the center of our world. I have encountered countless parents who have prided themselves in this single, all encompassing statement: … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
Every parent dreads it (or will). Every grandparent remembers it with a mildly disdainful grin. Every child (pre-10) cannot wait for it. Every teacher cringes daily because of it. And absolutely no one (no one, I say) can figure it … Continue reading
This gallery contains 3 photos.
When my mother-in-law suddenly passed away this April, I helped plan a funeral for the first time in my life. With death comes a sudden realization of our own mortality. Sitting in a small funeral parlor, making decisions on caskets, … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
Many a mother (and father) has wished to be cloned. In our moments of desperation, we’ve imagined some yet-to-be-invented machine that would magically make two (or three, or ten) of us so that we could get done all the … Continue reading
Just another WordPress.com weblog
Living naturally with food allergies
"Its not the ups and downs are usually that bad, but it's the damn twists and turns that get me every single time." - J. Hasamear
There are 5 sisters. She's the middlest.
Keeping the end in mind. Always.
A Support And Educational Blog for Parents with Hurting and Troubled Teens
with Shelly Birger Phillips
Keeping the end in mind. Always.
. . . is quite friendly, actually!
Just another WordPress.com weblog
Living naturally with food allergies
"Its not the ups and downs are usually that bad, but it's the damn twists and turns that get me every single time." - J. Hasamear
There are 5 sisters. She's the middlest.
Keeping the end in mind. Always.
A Support And Educational Blog for Parents with Hurting and Troubled Teens
with Shelly Birger Phillips
Keeping the end in mind. Always.
. . . is quite friendly, actually!
