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I can generally tell when our youngest child’s birthday is nearing by the battle between my husband and me regarding whether or not it’s time to turn on our heat. For some time now, on the dry-erase ...

When my boys were younger, the magic of the holidays wasn’t hard to come by. They were all in. Santa, the naughty list, lights, and stockings were the talk of our house for weeks. Photo credit Maureen ...

My father is going to India for three weeks. His last trip was to Spain; the time before that, he spent ten days in Morocco. He goes there yearly. The previous trip was to Turkey, and honestly, I ...

Man, it’s tough to keep those connections intact once they’re out of the house. It seems to get harder the older and more independent they become, especially if they live far away. Is it just the ...

There is perhaps nothing more sentimental on a wedding day than mom’s first dance with her son, the groom, except the father-daughter dance, but that’s for another post. The mother-son wedding dance ...

I’ve always thought of myself as a cool-headed mom. You know, the kind of mom every teenager wants to have: chill, spontaneous, with the willingness to have fun. But when my baby, my ...

Grown and Flown was where I first saw the advice about how often to communicate with my college freshman. It was 2018, and we were just about to send the guinea pig off to a university three hours ...

Entering college is such an exciting time in your life! In just a few months, you will finally leave your hometown and move to a new place to live independently. There is so much anticipation leading ...

My oldest daughter leaves for college this fall. It’s taken me every bit of her 17 years to finally be at peace with being a stay-at-home mom. It’s hard to type those words and even harder to read ...