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The Lie Every Parent Wants to Believe

August 29, 2015 By Lauren

We tell it to our kids and ourselves. It's the lie every parent wants to believe.

  I stand in your bedroom doorway as tears create rivulets down my cheeks, pooling on my chin for a millisecond before splashing onto my shirt. You are sound asleep, curled on your side facing the wall. The Lie Every Parent Wants to Believe I sneak across the wood floor and lay beside you, on top of the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: growing up, heartache, motherhood, school, son

Dear Teacher, Don’t Let Him Fool You

August 17, 2015 By Lauren

A letter from a mom to her child's new teacher

  Dear Teacher, In a couple of weeks my son will walk through the doors of your classroom and for the next nine months many of his waking hours will be spent with you. I know as the days, weeks, and months pass, you’ll get to know a side of him that even I am […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: kids, mom, parenting, school, son, teacher

To Eli, on your 7th Birthday

May 12, 2015 By Lauren

To Eli, On Your 7th Birthday

  Dear Eli, Back in January we spent a bitterly cold afternoon visiting Daddy while he worked on a construction project. We slid around on the ice-covered ground for a while, then hopped into his truck and cranked the heat in order to regain feeling in our fingers and toes. As we slowly warmed up, your […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays, Uncategorized Tagged With: birthday, letter, letter to child, mom, mother, seven, seventh birthday, son

What Would It Be Like to Raise a Perfect Son?

December 20, 2014 By Lauren

Perfect Son

This time of year always gets me thinking about Mary. Not just about the pictures of her we see in the nativity scenes that pop up everywhere in December, but about what it must have been like to be her. What Would It Be Like to Raise a Perfect Son? Before I go any further, […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, jesus, love, mary, mother, motherhood, nativity, parenting, perfect, son

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