This morning I dropped off my oldest for an 8th grade overnight field trip. As I watched the bus get smaller in my rearview mirror, I couldn’t help but feel all the feels. This isn’t the first time that my...
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A friend sent me a really great article on parenting. It was called Raising Your Successful 35-Year-Old. In the age of helicopter parents, it talked about being a lighthouse parent–where the goal isn’t to constantly hover and fix, but to...
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As much as I look forward to vacations, I always look forward to coming home and the familiar routine when I return. Last week I was away in St. Louis visiting family. It was a fabulous trip–the perfect mix of...
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Last week has left me needing guidance and inspiration from those who are wiser and more eloquent than I… “To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the...
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Don’t let the sleeping puppy fool you… Have you seen the movie Marley and Me? Yesterday Riley had a Marley kind of a day. We’d been warned that our good little puppy was going to begin to test boundaries....
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