Open Door Policy
The best managers, co-workers and friends should have an open door policy. Who wants to have to knock and wait for permission to enter to speak freely about a project, their work or even what might be happening in their Read More …
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PSAT Nightmares
This week, and this weekend, begin the PSAT nightmares for both teens and their parents. For different reasons of course. Standardized testing, apparently was invented over a hundred years ago, something I would not have thought, but read (recently) from Read More …
Obedience Is Over-rated
This topic has my head spinning and I am certain that it will take several posts to truly convey how I really feel, and what I think about it, so let’s just make the general statement: obedience is over-rated. Early Read More …
Change Overnight
Unlike caterpillars into butterflies, we don’t change overnight. We still have fears. We still look the same, the hair may be a little bit longer, but only imperceptively. We are probably not any taller…. We have the same IQ – Read More …
Wind In Your Face
It is okay to have the wind in your face, but the Irish will tell you it is better to have the wind at your back. It is just that sometimes (and not to say the Irish haven’t experienced this Read More …
It’s Not About Me
One thing I have come to realize, (and many of us realize too,) as a parent, it’s not about me…It’s about them. Mostly because they didn’t have a choice in coming into this world as our children, we did that. Read More …
All Hands
Tomorrow, we will have an all hands kind of day. It is the big day, the move. The thing that we have been planning for all year, all summer and all month. We, however, took a break this weekend to Read More …
Party of 5
No special occasion needed, let us have a party of 5… Not easy to seat, but totally worth it. For the last several years, that is what we have been – out to dinner, lunch – brunch… the 5 of Read More …
Little By Little
Progress being made each day, each week and every month – little by little. Now, not today, but only a few tomorrows from now, all at once is how it will feel. Our baby…who isn’t really – she is a Read More …
The After Party
Ahh, the after party…always fun. No one ever wants the fun to end, even though the party, is indeed, over. On this special occasion, hanging out for a few more hours with family, was just what we needed. It couldn’t Read More …