Not Disappointed in Their Disappointment

Experiencing disappointment is never easy, no matter how old we are or how many times we’ve experienced it before. It still tends to sting and stir up our emotions, emotions that are seemingly incongruous at best and difficult to sift through and process. Still, I...

Putting the Flex in Flexibility

As with many children, especially toddlers, there was a time when our girls were young when they were far more stubborn than flexible. About pretty much anything. And everything. I took this all in stride because I remembered a story my mom liked to tell about one of...

What’s Possible

There’s something beautiful about the journey of parenting. And while so much of the wisdom shared around parenting focuses around how quickly time goes, including the idea that there are only 940 Saturdays or weekends from when your child is born until they turn 18,...

The Shape Shifting of Parenting

When my girls were very young, they were almost always in my line of sight. Whether they were reading or watching a movie (at the time it tended to be on one of our laptop screens) or playing, they were within glancing-up-at-them distance. I don’t know if they were as...

My Dragon Slayer (Saver)

I am not an outdoorsy person. I suppose I should have preceded that statement with the now-popular catch phrase, unpopular opinion. No matter. I am a city girl through and through. I do not love hiking (I have gone and don’t hate it, but it is not one of my go-to...