A few days ago, I got a PM from a childhood friend that broke my heart. It seems that her teen was completely left out of all the groups for Halloween. Since she had a previous conversation with a parent about their kid’s plans, she reached out to the mom to see if her daughter…
International Junior Miss Kansas Teen Gives Back
In February, my teen was appointed International Junior Miss Kansas Teen. She’s not your typical pageant girl. In fact, she’s not your typical teenager at all. In December 2014, she spit up a blob of blood in a parking lot and became seriously ill. It took us two years and countless hospitalizations, doctors visits and…
The complicated life of today’s teen
I was a teen in the 1980’s. It was a simpler time. I rode my bike all over town. When my parents wanted to call my sister and I for dinner, we had a big cowbell in the backyard that they’d ring. We played tennis and hung out at the pool at the club.We went…
Styling LuLaRoe for Teens
My teen and I fell in love with LuLaRoe leggings earlier this year. Not only were they buttery soft, they fit her double zero body which isn’t easy to do. Unfortunately, she and her BFF Blaine are caught in between the two worlds of LuLaRoe fashion. They fit into the larger kids Gracies, Sloans and Azures,…
Motherhood is not about me
Last year, at what I now know was the mid-point of this journey not the start as I thought, someone asked me this about motherhood: “What will you do when your daughter is healthy and she doesn’t need you anymore?” I was a little taken aback by the question. When you’re in the middle of…
