Wordless… My baby boy is in middle school. For more, visit Wordless Wednesday.

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Milestone Alert: My now-officially-a-middle-schooler son got invited to his first for-no-reason-other-than-to-get-together-and-goof-off party. It was last Thursday night. I KNOW. Yikes. I am so not ready for teendom. But we did let him go, even though: We didn’t find out about it when he received the invitation early in the week, but rather TWO HOURS before [...]

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Today when I arrived at the kids’ school, my clock read 7:59. Ack! I think that’s the closest we’ve come to arriving late this whole year. Of course, only if you define “on time” as “while the carpool line still has cars in it.” The line at the drop-off area was getting perilously short when [...]

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My older kids turned 9 and 11 last month, so I suddenly find myself the mother of Tweens. And I’m finding it a bit, shall we say, challenging? I’ll tell you, it’s not all High School Musical and helping with harder homework. Noooooo, Tweenland is an adventure unlike anything I’d ever experienced. In fact, it’s [...]

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