Part 3: The Final Installment For a few weeks, I have shared both my experience in Part 1 and the experiences of two Moms in Part 2 of “Co-parenting During COVID-19”. There are two more stories that I wanted to…
Co-parenting During COVID-19
Part 2 Last week, I shared some of my experience in Part 1 of “Co-parenting During COVID-19”. I asked a few Moms if they would be willing to share how they have been able to manage co-parenting. Several moms shared…
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Co-parenting During COVID-19
Part 1 This past weekend was the first time my daughters got to spend time with their dad since spring break. Eight solid weeks with me, so it was definitely time for a breather. While I haven’t written much about…
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The Long Drive Home
*Deep sigh* I had several difficult conversations with my daughters this week. Some were difficult for me. One was difficult for them, but the common denominator in all of them was that they happened in the car after school during…
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Year of Yes
I’m not going to do a Top Nine of 2019, a list of resolutions, nor a monthly breakdown of what the last twelve months looked like. I will just simply acknowledge that 2019 was the year of YES. I experienced…
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The Struggle of an Only Adult
If I’m honest with myself, being an only child is hard. There’s just no other way to put it. As an only child in the middle of adulting, I’ve wondered, do parents really consider what it means to only have…
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Winners and Losers
My kids totally won today which in essence means I totally lost. Stinker, age 4, has separation anxiety, or more appropriately phrased as wanting to go where everybody else was going. Because I suffer from amnesia when it comes to…
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It Might Get Messy in the Middle
Summer is over. The school year has begun, and the inevitable has happened. Miss Double Digits officially started sixth grade. I have a middle schooler. Where did the time go? I mean seriously, where? Because the last I checked, I…
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An Open Letter to my Editor
Dear Editor, It’s not easy writing a blog. Trust me. While I am creative and I feel like I have something to say, I often struggle with “writer’s block”. Even me, after all these years of training and education, I…
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Parenting Sickle Cell Siblings
There are people struggling with diseases and disorders that you never know about. They look healthy and act “normal”. Often times they suffer in silence by choice, shame, or embarrassment. But many of these people are your friends, family, or…
