Here I sit, tissues and hand sanitizer at the ready, thanks to an inconsiderate virus that my dear son shared with me. Illness has little concern for the fact that school gets out for the summer next week, and it is my busy season of concerts, festivals, awards ceremonies, and parties. Ain’t nobody got time for that! But the kids are…
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Breathing is Easier When I Have Air
It had been a rough night. Spending the night in the hospital is always rough. But when pneumonia lasts for two weeks and does not get better with antibiotics at home, the hospital is the safest option. So there we were. All night long, my daughter tried to sleep. Between fits of coughing and visits from the nurse to check…
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A Few Questions I’ve Been Asking Myself Lately
The mercury here in Phoenix is inching up to 100 degrees, reminding me that summer is right around the corner. It feels like I was living through the whole high school graduation thing a few weeks ago, yet here I am again. Soon, we will be saying goodbye to son number two. Life is getting away from me. We are…
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This is What Motherhood Really is
There is something you should know about me. I am not a Pinterest mom. When I scroll through my Pinterest feed, I see a whole lot of ideas for adorable DIY projects that I will never attempt because adorable and DIY are not part of my genetic makeup. Also, I see list after list of things I apparently MUST do to…
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What it is Really Like to Be a Missionary Mom
My eldest son has been serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the past nine months. He left shortly after his high school graduation last summer to spend two years in Hawaii teaching and loving the Marshallese people there. (He learned to speak Marshallese before heading across the ocean.) Because a mission requires intense focus,…
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30 Things I Obsessively Say to My High School Senior
My second child is now in the homestretch of his senior year. Since I just did the whole graduation thing with another son last year, you would think I would know what I was doing. But you would be wrong. You see, this senior is about as different from his older brother as one could get. They are both boys;…
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A Case for Kids to Have Smartphones
Once upon a time, I had five babies over the course of a few years. They were little for a while, and life was not easy, but it was straightforward. I had a lot of control over the influences they were exposed to, and I liked it that way. Almost overnight, their chubby bodies grew until they were nearly as…
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