Just A Few Really Crucial, Important Life Lessons I Somehow Forgot to Teach My Teen. (Also known as important sh*t I forgot to teach my child. Oops.) Yesterday, the unthinkable happened. My daughter started high school. (Here’s a recap of the evil ways I made her summer vacation before high school completely suck.) Hold the phone. How in God’s name did […]
How To Survive A Family Road Trip with a Teen. Eye Rolls and All.
How to Make It Through a Road Trip With a Teen. How I survived a road trip with a full on teen and actually enjoy it! Tips for parents included. We survived. We made it. Whew. I can now successfully check this off the parenting list. What exactly did we make it through? A road trip with a teen. Yes, an […]
4 Evil Ways I’m Ruining My Teen’s Summer Vacation.
My evil plan to totally wreck my teen’s summer vacation. I know, I know. It’s summer time. No homework, no early morning bolt out the door to get to school on time. It’s a summer break. Summer vacation. It’s supposed to be months of complete and total lazy, don’t-brush-your-teeth-for-days sloth. At least that’s what my daughter thinks. I’m OK with some […]
Middle Aged Moms. Why I Should Have Gotten Knocked Up At 20.
Just a few of the many reasons why I’m a moron for being a middle aged mom and not getting knocked up at 20. No one warned me. Not one single person pulled me aside to let me know this simple fact. One middle aged mom should have had the guts to tell me the truth. All that time you […]
Parenting Through a Broken Childhood. Can You Be The Mother You Never Had?
Can you be a good parent even if you had a broken childhood? I don’t often talk about my mother. In the language of a Facebook relationship status, “it’s complicated”. Other people talk to their mothers every day and share photos of their children’s basketball games or report cards. My mother and I haven’t spoken in years. When I’ve tried […]
A letter to my daughter’s birth mother.
A letter from one mother to another. Dear Birth Mother, I think about you. Often. I’ve never met you. I wonder who you are. Where you live. Every time I brush my daughter’s long dark hair, I think of you and wonder if she got her beautiful hair from you. If only I could meet you, my daughter’s birth mother, I would hug […]
How a bad case of head lice led to one of my best days ever.
I Heart Head Lice!Why my daughter’s case of head lice was actually a wonderful gift. A nasty case of head lice truly made for a nearly perfect day. Standing in the aisle at the grocery store, balancing a gallon jug of cat litter, I got a call from my daughter’s school. Just seeing that number pop up on my cellphone made […]
4 Things I Wish I Could Change About Adoption.
I adore adoption but as my child gets older, there are things I regret about adoption, things I wish I could change about life as a family formed by adoption. Here are 4 things I so wish I could change-for my daughter’s sake. If you know me, you know I’m a huge advocate and fan of adoption. I love it not […]