by Grown and Flown | June 12, 2017
If we could do it all again…it would involve a lot more video. We dare you not to listen to Mackenzie tell her Dad, Kevin Scruggs, about each year with a dry eye. But it is the end of this video which really did us in. Scruggs owns up to being a little sad the first day of 8th grade, knowing he and Mackenzie are facing high school the following year.
So here is a trip down memory lane for every parent who has traveled Kindergarten to Senior Year.
by Kirsten Harrington | December 6, 2022
I’ve been a stay-at-home mom for 18 years. I realized there were good things about the new stage of life I am walking into.
by Christine Triano | September 28, 2022
Day One 7:00 pm: I return home from dropping my youngest at college to two hungry cats and a piece of leftover chicken parmesan my son made the night before we left. It is especially delicious, washed down with a glass of Montepulciano wine. It is so quiet. I spend too much time deciding on my next binge-watch,…
by Fran Bell | September 16, 2022
Your youngest child is off to college. You’ve gone from the frenetic energy of planning, purchasing, and decorating to the disquieting emptiness of your childless home: no mess, no dirty laundry, no friends showing up announced and emptying your fridge. You’re miserable. There’s also an onslaught of emotions that come with the reality that you…
by Lisa Endlich Heffernan | August 9, 2022
We know this day is coming. We hope for it, work hard for it, and yet…we can find ourselves wishing it away when it arrives. For 18 years, we prepare to take our kids to college. We cultivate their independence, encourage their achievements, and sit alongside them through the roller coaster ride of college admissions.…
by Jyl Barlow | August 9, 2022
I know…I know we are all supposed to be offering odes to our college-bound children. I know, as we see the “time to move out!” pile grow taller, we are supposed to fully lean into our feelings of sadness and despair and question how, exactly, we will move on with an empty bed in our homes. And it’s…
by Laura Hanby Hudgens | July 19, 2022
When our first child left for college, it felt like a shift in our family dynamic–because it was. We went from six to five. It took some time to adjust to life without him there every day — to that empty seat at the dinner table. Still, we had three other kids at home, and…
by Lisa Endlich Heffernan | July 15, 2022
So this is it — the third and final time. Next week I will sit through my youngest son’s high school graduation. Like every parent in that audience, high school auditorium, and football field, I will burst with pride and a touch of sadness. We will have weeks and months before he leaves, but experience…
by Katharine Robertson | December 8, 2021
There were seven of us in our five-bedroom house. Every closet overflowed with toys and clothes and shoes. Oh, the shoes. The kitchen cabinets were crammed with three incomplete and chipped sets of dishes, mismatched pots and pans, souvenir cups, and mugs from trips long since forgotten. The garage stored old soccer balls, bikes with…
by Susan Kravet | October 3, 2021
I knew what to expect when I was expecting. Food cravings, weight gain, swollen ankles, and a baby. Fast forward 20 plus years. My expectation was that I would know what to expect when those babies grew up. I was wrong. In the 1990’s baby bumps didn’t have a cute name like baby bump.…
by Grown and Flown | June 27, 2021
College shopping is beyond confusing. There is the list the college sends, there is another list that the store hands out and that list is different from what your student is telling you she needs. You know your kid has never used an alarm clock (it is 2021 and he doesn’t even remember a time…
