by Robin | Oct 31, 2011 | Animals, Kids, Life with boys, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Teens & Tweens
"There's a snake in my boots." ~ Woody, Toy Story It didn't matter if it was 90 degrees in the shade and a thousand percent humidity, he'd paint on his Wranglers and cram his feet into miniature Tony Lama's. Cowboys don't...
by Robin | Oct 20, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Mom stuff, On my soapbox, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 14 ~ Eventually your t(w)een will get a cell phone; statistics suggest it's only a matter of time. According to a Pew Research Center article, 75% of 12-17 year olds own cell phones; one-third sends...
by Robin | Oct 18, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 13 ~ Parenting is swimming upstream, especially when you're countering culture. There are so many pressures and "acceptances," it's easy to become desensitized to issues worthy of The...
by Robin | Oct 18, 2011 | Beauty, Favorite things, Gratitude, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters
She is full and hungry when she arrives. And ready. I didn't like that part, though. Ready made me wait. But Ready made a heart grow impossibly fonder, love smothering complaint like snow blanketing barren ground. I'm full...
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...
by Robin | Oct 13, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 9 ~ In writing my 31 Days of Parenting Teens and Tweens, I've talked to other parents about what they'd advise if they were writing in my place. My sister, whose two daughters, 18 and 19, are six shades of...