Parents of teenagers don't chug - or so says Cheyenne, self-appointed arbiter of appropriate parental behavior as it applies to teens. Alas, I have been a fan of The Eagles for years and as such, I love chugging all night...or at least I love the song that espouses it. So I have it on my [...]
Tag: children
Mom-me
On any given day I can expect to be referenced as mom or mother by Cheyenne. I am sure she calls me other things as well when I am not around. On a rare occasion she will call me mommy - typically that comes packaged in the phrase, "I love you mommy!" Ah yes, I [...]
My happy place…
Years ago when I was a sign language interpreter for the Kindred School District one of the students gave me a little gift book filled with quotes at the end of the school year. I still have that little book which is kind of amazing since it was given to me in May 1999 (it [...]
Gentle nudging…
I learned BIG news last weekend, but I was told to sit on it. I was not allowed to tell a bunch of other folks, I was not allowed to post it on Facebook and I was told quite clearly that I was not to write about it in my blog. So I sat on it...somewhat. I had to [...]
A community embrace…
It has been a very sad week in the West Fargo School District. The death of 17 year old Eleni Wilson from a brain aneurysm permeated the district with the somber reminder that we never know how long we have with anyone. Even though we all intellectually understand that, the loss of anyone so young is difficult to [...]
Validation.
You won't ever catch me saying I am the perfect parent - I am not. To be a perfect parent I would have to be a perfect person. I am not a perfect person. I can think of plenty of moments over my 30 years of parenting to-date that I could have done better with. Unfortunately, [...]
I am a life ruiner…
I am a life ruiner...or so I am told. I have heard this many times over the past couple of decades. Those would be the decades of my parenting children who have advanced into the "I believe I know what is best for my life" stage of development. It starts somewhere between the ages of [...]
THE NEW FORTY 