My son made me this card in school for Mother’s Day 2010 and it hangs on the wall of my office. I…
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raising teenagers
Mom, Can You Make Me Some Shrimp?
This is the question I got from my 16 year old son on a recent weekend afternoon. Mind you, the shrimp…
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Becoming A Parent Changed The Way I Saw My Own Parents
I wasn’t the happiest of teenagers and didn’t have the best of relationships with my parents. Our combative relationship reached…
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I Used To Stalk Our Neighbors When My Kids Were Little
There’s a couple that live in the house behind ours who are about our age and never had kids. Because…
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We’ll Always Have Paris
Last spring break I went to Paris for the first time. With my (then) 17 year old daughter. To share…
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Happy Birthday To My 16 Year Old Son
10 years old “Your son will hold your hand only for a little while. But he will hold your heart…
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