“It had been a great blessing to be a college parent: to witness how this beautiful, strong and capable child is growing into her own young adult self, to have the means to give her this opportunity to study and live abroad and to broaden her horizon as well as my own, to entrust this messy and exciting part of our lives to God.”
Tag: parenting
In the days and moments after I got home, I started to allow myself to feel everything, to stop beating myself up for crying at the airport, to accept my new normal as a wife and mother in a half-empty nest, a woman with a third of her heart living halfway across the world.
I left the funeral with a heart filled with grief and a head filled with the enormous, urgent task of calling on all of us – parents, guardians, adults, humans of the world – to take care of the children…
For many of us, May is the month of mothers. In a few days, it will be this year’s Mother’s Day celebration on May 12. […] Read More
My eldest child has been away, attending college halfway across the world from me, for about six months now. We were together briefly during the […] Read More
I’d always wanted my children to like me, to enjoy being with me, to think I’m a cool mom. This was fairly easy when my […] Read More
I don’t know many parents who are homeschooling teenagers; most of my homeschooling friends and online acquaintances are homeschooling younger children. So when I am […] Read More
Yesterday, my son had his last basketball training day for this summer. Just like in the previous summer, my son joined Complete Basketball Camp with […] Read More
When I look back at my earlier years of motherhood, I smile and reminisce at countless joyful moments: when my children took their first steps, […] Read More
I visited my mother yesterday, the first time in a little over a month. She asked me to look at what happened to her email […] Read More