6+1=6
I know I’m not the only woman who has done this – stayed silent in her grief because this is a thing we just don’t really talk about.
One Day They’ll Leave. And Have Sex
One day, they’re going to leave. Your kids and mine. They’ll go off to college, a shared apartment, a gap year backpacking in distant countries—whatever it is, one day they’re going to leave. We can’t afford to stay silent about their value and gamble on them figuring it out some other way. We can’t afford to withhold affection or kind words. We have to tell them and show them. TODAY.
Motherhood Mondays: Selfishness
I mentioned here that enjoying my children was a difficult concept for me to understand, let alone live into. I was confused and ashamed at first. And you might be judging me. But trust me, lots of parents struggle with how to fit children into all of their other hopes and dreams and goals and plans….
Motherhood Mondays: One Day They’ll Leave (Part 3: Middle School)
She’s going to middle school. MIDDLE SCHOOL! In just FOUR months, she’ll be a middle schooler and the anxious dreams have already started. That’s actually what signaled to my conscious brain that the anxiety had set in—the dreams. Of course I knew that 6th grade comes after 5th. And in this part of the country,…
Motherhood Mondays: One Day They’ll Leave (Part 2: Kindergarten)
The first day of kindergarten was the first big day of “leaving” for us – much moreso than the first day at this daycare or that one. Kindergarten signals the beginning of the educational journey that now has a departure date: 13 years from now. Thirteen years from now, for college or career or something…