Parenthood

  Daughter had a nice senior year schedule: 2 AP classes, 2 fun classes, 1 university class,and theater. She came into my room and announced that she wanted a more challenging workload this year and wanted to take AP Chemistry and drop her badminton class. Huh? At our Stanford campus tour, the admissions counselor pointed

Daughter had her wisdom teeth taken out this week. On the way to the appointment, I asked her what was the worst pain she had ever had. She was unable to produce an event that created said pain. Wow, really? What about the half dozen injuries she got while in cross-country last year? She couldn’t

My kids went away for almost 3 weeks. Someone asked how it was for me with them gone for so long. It had been the longest I had been away from them. Ever. I think of it as a warm up for next year when Daughter goes off to college. What was the same in

Getting ready for National Jamboree, the kidss received ~30 patches each to prepare their different uniforms for  travel. I could have been a mom who did all of the sewing myself but 1. I didn’t want to sew on so many patches and 2. There was no reason they couldn’t do it themselves. Knowing that

Daughter is dragging her feet on the college application process. There are some writing prompts for essays that she is supposed to respond to: Describe a significant event in your life. How has it shaped the person you are today? Describe a significant challenge you have faced in your life? Daughter is unable to answer