Motherwise Cracks

All quiet on the Home Front as my son is back to college. He left enough to remember him by on the floor of his bedroom. So I wanted to know all about how he was doing so I texted him and asked. His reply? “Good” Filled with that complete and exhaustive description of his [...]

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My living room is now half full of my son’s stuff for his return to college. Monday it will once again be unnaturally quiet around here and the dog will probably develop a sore spot from me petting her too much as I adjust to the quiet. About as soon as I get used to [...]

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Yes, the start of football season and the prayers are offered up by mom’s afraid of hospital visits all over the country. I have felt your pain. And I see your increased traffic to my blog post “The Cowardly Mom’s Football Prayer“. Here it is but you can click the link and download a very [...]

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Today was my daughter’s birthday and it was the first one that she was not home for as she is now a working girl. By chance, her sister happened to be traveling to her town, so they had a birthday celebration without me – without the rest of us – but mostly me. Sad at [...]

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While moving my son back home after his first year at college last Thursday, I pinched a nerve. That is what I get for being too lazy to put the load I was carrying down to open the door and trying to do it with my hip. While I have plenty of hip to perform [...]

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Summer college break looms before me as I start to get used to having it just be my husband and me again at home. This means the dreaded move in (or out) of the dorm exercise is two weeks off. Up and down staircases with loads of smelly laundry, old TVs, rotting carpet and two [...]

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The good news is that my son told me that his Mohawk is gone. I hope he got that bold statement out of his system. And speaking of gone, my two girls have gone on a two week vacation to California, but not me. I am busy preparing a presentation that will make me sweat [...]

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How bad is it when your husband has to email your son to tell him to call  home. I mistakenly thought I was very close to my son. We talked about everything over the past 18 or so years. Then he went to college and…nothing. I mean nothing. I thought maybe it was first semester [...]

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