I told my daughter Sarah the other day (who is 32 years old) that I remember what it was like being 14. Alas, I spent a couple of hours today with three 14 year old girls where my primary function was transport to, transport from, and low key supervision at the Street Fair - and [...]
Tag: teenagers
If only I owned a hair salon…
If I had a dollar for each time Cheyenne lamented - "Why can't you just own a hair salon or something? Why do you have to be in emergency management?" - I would have a fist full of dollars. It comes up every single time I reference anything about her safety or security. I am, [...]
14 years of sparkle…
Today is Miss Sparkle's 14th birthday. And no, that isn't an April Fool's Day joke...well, at least not this year. As I say every year on this day, the universe was likely trying to layer on a sarcastic commentary when I had Cheyenne on April 1, 1999 - just three months before my 40th birthday. [...]
And the winner is…me…ho hey. ;-)
Cheyenne had me tape the Grammy Awards so we could watch it together when she got home from visiting her dad's house. Wow. Three and a half hours. Watching the entirety of that show was a feat for me even with the ability to fast forward through the incredible number of commercials. I am not [...]
The zen room…
Cheyenne is in the process of switching bedrooms in the house. She waged a long campaign and enlisted the support of her siblings to likewise campaign on her behalf. After a couple of years I finally acquiesced to the constant begging and occasional nagging. You wouldn't think moving from one room to another in the [...]
I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
It was always my goal to raise strong, assertive children. In addition, I was particularly determined to instill in my daughters a sense of equality. I never wanted them to feel as females as if they were secondary or needed to be submissive to males. I wanted them all to be comfortable in their individuality and fierce in their defense of [...]
Mama knows best.
When I moved to North Dakota in 1997, my two oldest children were teenagers in high school. They were not fond of the idea that they were moving from Orange County, California to Kindred, North Dakota. When we arrived in small town North Dakota and settled in on the corner of Elm Street they captured their [...]
THE NEW FORTY 