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“One generation full of deeply loving parents would change the brain of the next generation, and with that, the world.” ~Dr. Charles Raison
“This is magic.” Only a child would say something like that while walking the halls of a children’s hospital. We had just exited the elevator taking us from the registration floor up to the pre-op level for my daughter’s scheduled surgery –a tonsillectomy, a frenotomy (lip-tie cut), and a myringotomy (ear tube replacement). When we…
This morning my two-year-old locked me out of my house. I stepped out back on our patio to let our aging Labradors out to relieve themselves. While I usually leave the back door open so that I can hear my kids fighting for the three to five minutes that I am not in the room,…
I claim (and complain) that I get the worst of you, but the truth is that I get the best of you. I get the you who is on the journey. I get the you who is slightly naive and curious. I get the you who is learning and growing. I get the you who is…
I thought I knew what was important in life. So God made you (and you and you) to show me what important looks, sounds, and breathes like. I thought I knew how to recognize beauty. So God made you (and you and you) to show me that beauty can look different and make you feel different…
Today, my daughter and I wrote a story. So did my son and I. Let’s start with what prompted this: Last night, my daughter said something that hurt a bit. She said that she needs more attention and that I am always saying “one second” or “in a minute”. I sat there on the floor…
Hi There, I’m so-and-so’s Mama Bear, but I think you already knew that when I showed up twenty minutes early to “Meet the Teacher” and made a beeline for the front row center seat inside of your impeccable classroom which I was sure to study from the moment I walked in. Yep, that’s me, being…
Just kidding. Beer is not my why! In truth, it’s usually my “why not!?” But really, the title and image together intrigued you, didn’t it? A little clickbaity maybe, but that was not my whole intention. The truth is that I couldn’t find a picture of all my offspring where at least one of their…
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