When a Fall is Beyond Band-Aids and Kisses, Part 1

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 […]

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The Prison of Addiction

Every week I go babysit my daughter’s baby for half a day at the family home of the birth father so that he can go to class, study or just have some time off from being a single dad. The young man’s mother is normally the one who comes to relieve me of babysitting […]

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