At the end of the school year, my daughter looked beautiful, dressed for her senior prom. Her long waist-length black hair was pulled back simply from her face and flowed down her back in long cascading waves thanks to her friend’s efforts with a curling iron on her straight locks. Her off-white dress was […]
I thought that it had been two weeks since I last blogged but see that it has been three. These last weeks have been an adjustment to a different sort of “normal” since bringing our son home from Wilderness.
The challenging part of the adjustment to having my son home is the desire I still […]
I spent this afternoon moving a desk and bookcase into our downstairs bedroom. It used to be my older son’s bedroom and have wanted to turn it into an office since he moved out almost two years ago. Before I could turn it into an office however, my youngest son staked a claim on […]
This past week was an intense mix of emotions. I braced myself for the possibility of my daughter being incarcerated only to read in the online court minutes that the pretrial was delayed until early December.
I picture one or both lawyers on each side asking for more time to gather evidence with the judge […]
Sometimes I think an ostrich has the right idea. When life gets a bit scary, put your head in the sand. Don’t look, don’t think. Danger…what danger?
My daughter has her pretrial hearing this week for her 3 felony theft counts… one count for stealing a computer and 2 counts of identity […]
At the moment, I am feeling like the picture to the left with lightning crackling down to the ground from dark, rain filled clouds. I must be sending off electric charges of irritation as my husband took one look at my face a little while ago and gave me a hug. I’m […]
The picture above touches my heart. The mother is loving and protective, the baby contented and trusting. I held my daughter at this age with the same wonder and delight. I saw a bright future: a happy little girl, a teen, a college student, a young woman, a bride in […]
With five active kids spanning nine years, we kept plenty of Band-Aids on hand…big ones for knees, round ones for small scrapes and of course brightly colored Sesame Street and Winnie the Pooh strips in the early years. There is something satisfying as a mom to hug a sobbing child after a fall, clean […]
There is a metaphorical cliff edge that I have been trying to keep my daughter away from for 8 years now, since she was twelve years old and we realized that she was stealing…prison. I see the cliff edge looming now just up ahead. It’s an abyss; it’s dark, there are ugly sharp rocks […]
Here I am beginning to blog about emotions and how to use them in a positive productive way and I have been stewing all week about my daughter. I think that is equivalent to about a C- in the Better direction. My husband said “Bitter to Better” to me twice this week. I think […]
