There was an afternoon last fall when my 12-year-old came home from a co-op class and went straight to his room without saying a word. No snack grab, no loud re-entry into the house, no asking what was for dinner. Just silence. My husband and I exchanged that look — the one that says something
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It was a Tuesday afternoon in late October, and my 10-year-old had been counting down the days to his baseball team’s end-of-season party. He’d talked about it for two weeks. And then, the morning it was supposed to happen, his coach sent a cancellation notice. Weather. Scheduling conflict. It didn’t matter — the reason was
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Some mornings in our house start with laughter. Someone tells a ridiculous joke at breakfast, and suddenly all four boys are cackling so hard they can barely eat their eggs. Those are the mornings I feel like we’re doing something right. Then there are the other mornings — the ones where my 10-year-old is convinced