It’s impossible to predict what your kids will grow up to be like when they are born. You never know. It’s a crap shoot. But there are some aspects of their personality that are evident very early on. I was looking at some old pictures the other day from my grandmother. She was pretty good […]
Lessons I've Learned
The First Christmas Was Pretty Simple
Six years ago I wrote a post entitled To All the Moms At Christmas, and I re-shared it a couple days ago on the NYAM Facebook page. When I wrote that post the kids were 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 years old. Everyone believed in Santa. I was in the thick of parenting young […]
Lessons From A Swim Meet
It’s day three of a 4-day swim meet. I’m one of the chaperones for my son’s team, and we leave the hotel at 6:15 a.m. each morning for the pool. Breakfast doesn’t start early enough at the hotel for the kids to eat before they leave for the pool, so one of the other chaperones […]
My 2023 Goal
I’ve been pretty impulsive my whole life. Words come out of my mouth before I think about them. A thought comes into my head and I act on it. I hear about something cool and I sign up for it. Someone implies I can’t do something so I do it. This impulsivity has its pros […]
Time to reassess
Life has been a little bit crazy lately. Unmanageable. Not because of the holidays but because I’ve just had too many plates spinning at the same time. Tonight was the banquet for the girls’ high school swim team. I went from boys’ high school practice to the banquet. I have so much to get done […]
Keep Making Mistakes
Earlier today I shared this post from The Autistic Teacher on the Not Your Average Mom Facebook page: A reader left a comment acknowledging we all make mistakes, but also questioning, shouldn’t we be striving to be the best that we can be? I started to reply to this comment and then decided to address […]