If you have teens, or have had them, you may be able to relate to why I am up at midnight unable to sleep, no grown up in my life to share this moment with right now so I instead will turn my thoughts to the random abyss I call cyberspace. Teens suck. Teens suck because no matter how many times we assure them that we have been there, right there in their shoes, they feel the need to argue about the differences in our time/space realities. How we could not possibly have experiences similar to theirs when we grew up pre-Internet, pre cell phones, in a time and place where kids got warnings for things instead of adult consequences. And that part is true. Things were different for us but there are still basic adolescent experiences that transcend most time/space warps. They suck because they refuse to believe that when we say no to things or put limitations around things, it isn't because we don't trust them or we are strict or we just want to keep them from growing up. And they suck because, really? That last part IS true. But mostly it's because we want to protect them. Becoming an adult is not all its cracked up to be. It brings harsh realities and tough choices and ...
Dallas Fort Worth Itinerary | I Left My Heart In Texas
Last November, Connor and I took off for a fabulous 3 day weekend for a Dallas Fort Worth itinerary. I wanted to wait and tell y'all about it because I had such a wonderful time that I didn't want this story to get lost in the holiday noise. If you have yet to visit the Dallas/Fort Worth area I hope that as you are planning your 2013 adventures, a trip to this area of TX lands on your map after this post. Fortunately a lot of friends attended this same trip with us, so for some of the details I will link you over to their posts. Our trip started off at the Omni in Dallas for the Family Travel Conference. I was really impressed with all the cool little features in the Omni rooms. During the conference, Connor snuck off down the street to the Old Red Museum. He loved it. We visited the Dallas Zoo one night for dinner. The food was lovely and we got some cool closeups of the elephants and the penguins. But the real star of the that trip was actually the Galleria Mall where Connor had a ball playing like a little kid. While we loved Dallas, Fort Worth is really the area that stole our heart. Really, we have met with plenty of CVB's (Convention and Visitors Bureaus) in our ...
My Hope For 2013 Simplified
And that is all I have to say about that Hope you have a wonderful, safe New Years and a very likeable 2013 ...
My Holiday Wish For You
I wish for you a 2013 full of the harmony, peace, love, joy and amazement at the possibilities that each and every ordinary day holds for us. I wish for you 365 days of amazing examples of what we are capable of accomplishing just like this. Thanks for sharing this Kristin. It is exactly what I needed! ...
You Are Very Loved
Dear Wyatt Samuel, You probably don't know this but in two days your mom and dad will leave your 3 sisters behind in California and make a 12 hour flight to meet you in Russia. That's them: I have to be honest with you little guy, when your mom first started talking about you I thought she was C R A Z Y! I thought it was a phase she was going through. I mean, seriously, she is just coming out of the hard years with Hannah (your sister who also has spina bifida), she has 3 girls, and to be honest, things in their lives have been a bit rocky the past year or so. Why in heaven's name would she really want to adopt another child with spina bifida? One child with significant special needs is already so hard. I clicked over to your picture on Reese's Rainbow and I saw what she saw. I imagined you not having access to the medical care that has made Carter's (my son who was born with spina bifida) life as full and wonderful as it. My heart broke for you knowing that your future would likely be spent in an institution because you had a physical disability. But I still thought your mom was C R A Z Y and, honestly, I doubted she could ever pull it off. Boy was I wrong! Your ...