by Robin | Oct 6, 2014 | 31 Days: Hints & Tips for College Bound Students
{Haven’t yet subscribed? Please do!} Do you remember how you would answer the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” when you were around five or six? What would prompt us to do that, to ask children to speculate as to what they’d...
by Robin | Jun 11, 2012 | Parenting, Teens & Tweens
"…I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. Try and talk some sense into him…."~ Red, to the Parole Board, Shawshank Redemption If you're a parent, even if...
by Robin | Apr 16, 2012 | Family, Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Music, Videos, youtube ROCKS!
I like to car dance. It's not like I set out to shake-my-groove-thang when I get in the car; it's more a subconscious respond to happy tunes jammin' on the radio (closet fellow car dancers HOLLA!). My heart spins merry to see someone else at a...
by Robin | Nov 12, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Family, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
No matter what you do in your life, what you create, what career you have, whether you have a family or kids, or make a lot of money… your greatest creation is always going to be your life’s story. Because it’s like this container that holds all of those other things....
by Robin | Oct 15, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 10 ~ In a country where the divorce rate hovers around 50%, it's hard for me–a recovering people pleaser–to say what I'm about to say. I realize potentially I could offend or hurt every...