Minutes to Moments

My friend Patty Cook offers these words of wisdom for moms: 
I am a late-blooming step-mom. After rising from the ashes of a career burnout, I found myself falling into the same old traps when children came into my life. Use these guidelines to strengthen your ability to thrive – as a mother, as a woman.

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“I think I’ve had in the back of my head that surely one day the hard stuff would stop and I would have a really long remission. But I don’t think it’s like that. Granted, I know some people who somehow skate through life. Who really have had almost nothing hugely bad happen to them. I don’t know if I really get those people. Because there is such a depth to people who’ve really been hammered by life but keep getting up again. I love people like that.” Elisabeth Corcoran, “He Is Just That Into You”

My dear friend Renee is facing her first born headed off to college.  Here are some of her thoughts, in her own words.  Dear reader, can you relate?:
My oldest daughter has been talking about how much she wants to leave home since she was in the third grade.  She is both blessed and cursed with [...]