I Want to Keep Earning a Place of Honor in My Children’s Lives
A few months ago, I had to dig my college student’s birth certificate out of our locked fireproof box. My daughter needed it to apply for a passport for her “cross-cultural experience,” a graduation...
View Article21 Things You’ll Love About The Empty Nest
This time of year there is absolutely no escaping the plethora of heart wrenching articles about sending your kids off to college, and while we realize that this is a stressful, and anxious time, we...
View ArticleA Stay-at-Home Mom of Grown Kids Wonders What Her New Job Title Is
I’m struggling. I’m struggling with identifying my purpose, my role, my identity at this stage of my life. I suppose I am at mid-life-crisis age, but that’s not what this feels like. Becoming a...
View ArticleNow That My Children Are Grown, What Is My Purpose?
Even though being a mom was never my only identity, now that my sons are grown, I find myself wondering what my purpose is–what is important now? For reasons I can’t explain, I’m finding it hard to...
View Article8 Things to Remember on the Drive Back Home
We know this day is coming. We hope for it, work hard for it and yet…when it arrives, we can find ourselves wishing it away. For 18 years we prepare to take our kids to college. We cultivate their...
View ArticleEmpty Nest: When the Kids Leave Home, Who is the ME Left Behind?
When our four children were under eight years old, I remember asking my husband not for a spa day or trip for my birthday, but a weekend alone in the house. What would I do with a weekend alone in the...
View ArticleI Just Have One Question Where Did My Babies Go?
There was a time when my children were always underfoot. I couldn’t finish a meal or take a shower without interruption, let alone read a book or binge watch anything. For years, my time was not my...
View ArticleThree Words That Mean Everything to a New Empty Nest Mom
Three simple words that hung on our wall in the little apartment that became our home threeyears ago, post-Harvey. Three words that meant the world to me the day I closed my parent’shome down for the...
View ArticleI Will Be Paying It Forward With This Gift to Young Mommies
When my children were small, there was a charming little store in our hometown that sold dishes and pottery, home decor items and clever greeting cards. That might seem like an odd place for me to...
View ArticleTwo Ways to Head Into 2021 With Less Clutter and More Serenity
My oldest turns 24 next year, my youngest 20. Suffice it to say we are beyond the baby years. Yet my storage closet still houses tattered Baby Einstein videos and unopened Diaper Genie refills. Ah...
View ArticlePhysician and Mom: How to Stay Close as a Family Over Time
Once upon a time, long, long ago, all of our children, my husband and I lived under the same, familiar roof. As we knew they must (and leaving me with conflicted feelings of sadness for myself and...
View ArticleWhen Your “Grown and Flown” Moves Out of Town
Last July, my oldest daughter, who had just graduated from college, accepted a job offer in New York City. The fact that she had found a job—one that she happened to be very excited about—in the middle...
View ArticleLosing My Marbles, One Day At a Time
Nine hundred and forty marbles. On the day your child is born, if you fill a jar with 940 marbles, you’d have in your hands the number of weeks between that child’s birth and his 18th birthday. That’s...
View ArticleWhen Did I Become “That Mom?”
You look tired and overwhelmed and miserable. You’re standing in front of me at the airport on a long line of people waiting to order food and drink. The baby in the stroller is flinging herself...
View ArticleDear Freshman, Welcome Home and Here’s What Changed Since You Left
Like many empty-nesters, I spent all last summer reading countless articles about the whole children leaving for college process. From how I would feel to what to do about how I would feel, I typically...
View ArticleWarning: How to Prevent College Shopping Overload
College shopping is beyond confusing. There is the list the college sends, there is another list that the store hands out and that list is different from what your student is telling you she needs. You...
View ArticleHere’s What To Expect When Your Kids Are In Their 20s
I knew what to expect when I was expecting. Food cravings, weight gain, swollen ankles, and a baby. Fast forward 20 plus years. My expectation was that I would know what to expect when those babies...
View ArticleOnce My Nest Emptied, I Just Started to Declutter EVERYTHING
There were seven of us in our five-bedroom house. Every closet overflowed with toys and clothes and shoes. Oh, the shoes. The kitchen cabinets were crammed with three incomplete and chipped sets of...
View ArticleIt Took My Sons Leaving Home for Me to Realize I’d Lost Sight Of My Dreams
I’ll be honest right up front: I was never the Mom who martyred herself for her children. I never neglected myself or my needs when my kids were growing up — I’m definitely a “put the oxygen mask on...
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