Momma Said, “Let Them Go.”
I know it’s not easy when you’ve spent the last 18 years carting them to lessons and practices and looking over homework and softening the blow of a broken heart. But let them go. We raised them to leave us. That was the whole point.
Life 101: This is How it is for Me Now
I take my job as Mary’s godmother seriously. My first lesson for her: Every woman should have her own money. So I gave her a $100 bill to get her started.
The Summer Before the Summer Before College
It is the summer before the summer before college for my soon-to-be senior. My kids are lined up like tennis balls at the base of a ball machine chute. Before I know it — WHOOSH! ….WHOOSH! They’ll be gone.
What Are Your Kids Putting in Their Eyes?
You can’t unsee what you’ve seen, and other people’s real life horror is not something to carry with you through life.
Do Your Shoes Fit Your Motherhood?
For moms, the sensible shoe years are really quite short. Yet we keep them thinking that’s who we are.
Moms Don’t Matter So Much After All
Or maybe this Mom’s Time with the Kids Doesn’t Matter study if the very one we’ve been waiting for…
Grace and Fuel on My Son’s 18th Birthday
About all anyone at the retreat knew about me is that my name is Jennifer, I am from New Jersey, and I prefer the meat-eater’s line at the buffet.
