We didn't really know what we were getting into when we put our five-year-old on a swim team. But we were too deep into it when we started hearing things like, "Warm up starts at 6:30am!" and "Every parent needs to volunteer!" This, of course, would all have been manageable stuff if our oldest ...
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How to Keep Your Kids in Touch with Long Distance Grandparents
My parents regularly tell me that the best thing I’ve ever given them was a grandson, and the worst thing I’ve ever done was to move him one thousand miles away from them. It’s been three years since we committed the terrible offense of moving to my husband’s hometown in Texas. We've since added ...
Your favorite person in the world may not exist yet
Have you heard about the bride who asked her 89-year old grandmother to be her bridesmaid? What a sweet story! You can just see the joy in their faces. It reminded me of these really inspiring people I met a few months ago. I saw them from across the parking lot. A young guy, maybe in his early ...