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After I wrote about my oldest son’s less-than-awesome first day of middle school a while back, I had people asking me for a follow-up for weeks. The first day was a jarring slap of reality, but in the weeks since, we have all adjusted — some of us better than others. Namely, my son is…

I’m honored and excited to announce that I now have the chance to write for What to Expect.com as one of their Word of Mom bloggers! My first post is live tonight, and in it I muse about how I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about how much I do and will…

I had a moment yesterday. I was driving my husband to the airport, where he had to depart our family vacation for the very un-vacationlike reason of having to return to work so we can actually pay for this sojourn. We were talking about the days he had spent here in the mountains of North…

“Farewell, best of wives, best of mothers.” The words on my Facebook page stopped me in my tracks. They formed my college friend’s status update — solemn, careful words, the likes of which rarely grace my newsfeed. Below, he posted his mother’s memorial page, explaining that she had recently succumbed to lymphoma. [Sidebar: I HATE CANCER.]…

They grow up so fast, says everyone. He’s so big, they marvel. Look how grown up he is now. And my heart hurts. It’s been an emotional week for me. My oldest son, my first baby, started middle school today. It was not long ago — not in my (admittedly addled) mind, at least —…

This summer will always stand out in my memory as the Summer I Acquired a Tween Boy. One day, my child was sleeping with eight gazillion stuffed animals (approximately), and the next, he was lying on the bed with earbuds in his ears, eyes trained intently on YouTube Minecraft video, not a stuffed animal to…

My personal Facebook posts sometimes confuse my friends with younger, not yet school-age children. I admit that, to the exhausted eye of a mother with less years under her belt, they might seem slightly crazy. At the beginning of the school year, I am full of relief and It’s-the- Most-Wonderful-Time-of-the-Year status updates. Though each fall…

I have been writing a lot from my bay-windowed bedroom in a hundred-year-old Victorian rental home in a small town in North Carolina. I have a post up on Brain, Child‘s blog today as well about how sometimes I still feel like maybe the real grown-up needs to come take care of these children before…

Today I have my first post up on the website Mamaapedia. I wrote about summer — how I am so excited for it to get here and have so many ideas and plans for it, and then sometimes I feel defeated when those plans don’t happen or turn out like I plan. But summer is…

My oldest don turned eleven in June, and since then, it has been jarring how fast he has blossomed into a full-fledged tween. Today on Scary Mommy, I focus on the bright side of his new status and stick my head firmly into the sand about the teenager I’ll soon have. Hope you will check…