Day 3 I’m so grateful that the girls tell me as much as they do about their worlds. For both of them, the majority of the time we are apart with Hannah away at school and Hailey and I having completely opposite schedules/times when we are home. Over the years they’ve always kept me in …
Thursday and Papa’s Quotes
If I were to use some of my Dad’s stand out quotes that he uttered over the years in dictionary type format it would look something like: “WHAT THE SHIT?!” - expressing frustration, poking fun, confusion “Get out of the pool with your clothes on!!” - when my brothers were in their plastic kiddie pool …
Over scheduled teenager: I’ve got one
As I work through each new stage with my children I realize the saying holds true: little kids little problems; big kids big problems. The exhaustion of keeping up with toddlers and the three times per day bathing and the food in the hair feels like a walk in the park to what our issues …
Parenting: Keep on keeping on
I read or heard an expression once that having a child is experiencing a piece of your heart surviving outside of your body. (Or something like that) As I drive home from dropping Hannah, my oldest daughter (and first to “move out”) off at college this weekend I feel that statement. Hard. The difference of …
Thursday, Papa & College Stories
With these past couple of weeks revolving around planning for my oldest daughters departure from school I think of my own college experience. I went to community college for two years and played softball (and had so much fun) but lived at home. I chose to live in an apartment as a Junior which was …
Back to school then and now
You know how FaceBook reminds you of your memories for that day? Recently I have been getting daily memories revolving around back to school. In fact one of my recent post memories was just one sentence “I just aged twelve years in Target school supply shopping.” School supply shopping has really changed for me. …
My baby girl’s first apartment 😳
My baby girl got the keys to her first apartment! We have been planning this for a while. I knew this was coming. But still, somehow, can’t wrap my brain or heart around it now that it’s here. Sadly last year due to Covid she had to attend her freshman year of college …
The struggle is real and I’d like to excuse myself from figuring out what’s for dinner.
I am at a stage in my life called “getting people places.” It is almost done, as my youngest is allllmost 16, however it feels that the closer I get to my children ALL being able to get themselves where they need to go when they need to go – the intensity and frequency that …
It’s more than just a sport to me…
Currently my life revolves around softball. Three nights a week practice for my unlicensed Hailey and every weekend tournaments. I say unlicensed because this means where she goes…. I go. And we go and go and go… Am I crabby? Hell no! Every weekend of my adult (up for argument on that word) life I’m …
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