I’m writing this post in bed, under the covers, at 1:00 in the afternoon. I’ve been here since Sunday night, with some kind of funky lower respiratory infection that I picked up this weekend. I hate being sick…can’t remember the last time I felt so bad that I stayed in bed more than a day. …
I don’t have a lot of TV shows that I watch on a regular basis, but “Parenthood” is fast becoming my favorite, because of the way they portray parenting teenage daughters and other family issues. Sometimes I think the writers must have lived in my house and spied on my family to get ideas for …
When I was a little girl, I remember finding a baby bird under the tree in our back yard. I was so worried about it, because it couldn’t fly yet. My dad wouldn’t let me keep it…told me we needed to leave it alone. It seemed so tiny and defenseless, out in the yard, exposed …
Tuesday night I attended college night at H’s school. We feel fortunate that she is at a school with an incredible college counseling program. Now that she’s in 11th grade, the “counseling” portion of it is beginning…with a vengeance. She’s doing SAT tutoring, in preparation for her first test in December. She went on a …
It’s Saturday morning, the first weekend of the school year, and I’m sitting in the kitchen, doing the crossword puzzle, waiting for H to wake up. I just realized I’ve been doing this almost every morning for the last 16 1/2 years. I feel like my day doesn’t start until she’s awake. Typically, on the …
I am so livid about H’s recent experience on US Air that I just have to put it in words. We picked her up from design camp in Raleigh, NC last week, and drove to Charlotte to put her on a US Air flight to Denver for Operation Smile’s Student Leadership Conference. That flight was …
We’re back in lake Toxaway. Picked up H from the airport last week from her 25 day backpacking trip in California. This summer she decided that instead of going back to her all-girls summer camp, she was ready to try something different. She did an adventure treks trip, which was definitely different than anything she’d …
I know I post this sight quite a bit, but the summer view of the quiet lake showing the perfect mirror image is so beautiful! Yes, I am still alive. I am sitting on the balcony at our lake house in North Carolina, reading and relaxing before the weekend of July 4th activities begins. This …
I’m not the only one in my family who’s been hit hard by the pollen in Nashville this spring. For me, it has aggravated my asthma to the point that the medication doesn’t seem to be doing anything to help. I can’t run more than a mile without chest pain that feels like a truck …
Someone very wise once told me that parenting is like having a very long rope. That as our kids grow up, we let out the rope a little bit at a time. We might have to pull it in a little bit, but we never completely let go. As the parents to an only child, …