Sending Love
Hopefully, Mother’s Day for you and/or your mother was splendid indeed. Here in Petroville, it was a Girly-girl love fest. As it should be…
My daughters let me sleep late, brought me a Luna bar covered decorated with some sort of weed petals (shut up) in bed and sang “Happy Mother’s Day to You” to the [...]
The 13th Part-ay
Yesterday, I got all weepy & sentimental, partially due to pms, and cried into my keyboard as I typed about my daughter turning 13. I am now able to label some of those feeling as mourning the loss of childhood as well as the birth of crow’s feet. (Thank you very much Ms. Childless Therapist.)
Today, [...]
Thirteen
If we were somehow 13 years old at the same time, in a crazy parallel universe, I know we would be the very best of friends.
Today you turn 13.
That age doesn’t seem so far away because I feel like I was still a child myself when I had you. I remember how it [...]
Sing. Sing a Song.
I’m down by JMU for my daughter’s All-State Chorus practice and performance weekend. My near 13 year old and I both have a little spring-fever-playing-hooky feeling going on. She actually is missing school while I’m just missing out on feeding the dogs, cooking, dishes, laundry, what’s left of my mulch pile and did I mention [...]
What Would Katie Do?
My 12 year old had soccer try outs this week. For 3 days after school, she worked her hardest to make the team.
Last night, after she went to bed exhausted from 3 hours of soccer, the final cut was posted on the school website. My heart sunk as I scrolled for her name.
She didn’t [...]
