When my daughter Caroline graduated from college, I was thrilled to have at least one child out of school. But in 2018, she headed back to school. AGAIN. The day she began graduate school, I had a lot of conflicting emotions:Nostalgia: how can this be? Seems like only yesterday I was sending her off to first [...]
Seriously: I. Was. Not. Okay. It was 96-degrees the day we moved our twins into their dorm rooms, but my heart felt like a block of ice. Back and forth to the car I trudged, as if it were the end of the world. My boys were leaving home. Leaving the nest. Leaving me. As [...]
Our featherweight wrestling match started about eight o’clock each night. It began with a round of messy water battles, colorful plastic toys and slippery children. Then my husband and I attempted to brush all 60 of their pearly whites (which was easier said, than done). Finally, after a chaotic round of storytelling, we wrestled our [...]