One-on-One Car Connections

Because I knew our week was going to kick off with a busy start, including a lot of drive time, 45 minutes with the 17-year-old in each direction to and from her teen hangout and almost an hour with the 15-year-old in each direction to and from her final counseling...

Ordinary Days of Extraordinary Love

Some days tend to be more ordinary than others. This is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it a good thing; it simply is the thing—the ordinary day. Even so, I do not like to mistake ordinary days for ones filled with ordinary joy and definitely not filled with...

Parallel Connections

There is nothing I like more than the moments when one of my girls plops down on the couch beside me just because. It brings me a deep joy to connect or reconnect in this way, when we are sitting there together not quite talking. Eventually we may, but when one of...

Catching Their Teenage Vibes

As I wrote yesterday, I am all about meeting my teenagers where they are because I love to find ways to connect with each of them. Of course, given that they are two unique, neurodivergent teens, they have equally unique interests. While there is some crossover and...

Escaping the Quicksand

When overwhelm settles over you and starts pulling you into its grasp, it can feel a lot like those old television shows where someone fell into quicksand and their efforts to escape only tended to make them sink faster. For those of you not quite as old as me, and so...