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Starting Over- In My 40's
Your Twenties are normally when you become an adult, with bills, starting a family, and having your own place. I was married for the first time at age 19 and again at age 23. It wasn’t until I met my now husband, when I was 28 that life finally started to click, but due to medical issues, I couldn’t work.
By Crystal Nicole2 months ago in Families
Grief
"It's okay to have your sad days, just don't live in them." I had an Auntie Jo memory pop up today. The timing of this memory was too fitting and perfect. I wanted to share it.
By Chloe Unfiltered2 months ago in Families
On Drives.
On Long Drives I just had my 17-year anniversary of becoming a Texan (by address, if nothing else.) Daily, I don’t understand how I have been here almost two decades, because A, how is that possible and B, I can’t possibly be that old now.
By Morgan Longford2 months ago in Families
MOM AND THE HELM
MOM AND THE HELM She swept them away ! ! ! Mom had the whackiest sense of humor. She enjoyed making others laugh and often at her own expense. She said that if you can’t find humor in yourself, you shouldn’t look for it in others.
By Margaret Brennan2 months ago in Families
The Tortoise on the Sixth Floor
My mother’s name is Margaret. She is ninety years old. She lives alone in a red-brick walk-up in Queens, on the sixth floor.
By Jin2 months ago in Families
Not Quite There II
I. The engineer—the one with iron in his head—never read Lao Tzu. He was a man of blueprints, not poetry. Of steel beams, not parables. His mother taught him to be honest, to keep his word, to build things that stood. That was his scripture.
By Nier Rossi2 months ago in Families
Not Quite There
I. There was a world. In it, the sky was a man—the kind of man who believed what his mother taught him. That a man's word is his bond. That honesty is its own reward. That if you build things well, with clean hands and a straight back, the world will treat you the same.
By Nier Rossi2 months ago in Families
The One Parenting Style That Builds Unbreakable Girls
Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, spent a decade tracking over a hundred families. Her conclusion still sits in every parenting textbook: the children who grow up confident, independent, and resilient are not the products of authoritarian “spare the rod” households, nor of permissive “anything goes” ones. They come from what she called the authoritative style.
By Jin2 months ago in Families
Nothing as it was before
Just the other day I cried to my mom because while I have spend the last 3 weeks visiting home, I realized how selfish I have become and how I like it that way. I mean its easy to be selfish when you live in a studio apartment by yourself, in a different city nonetheless. I am away from everyone by choice, in a self proclaimed decision of building a new life in a new place. My calendar is stacked with plans, dreams and a job I love, everything is moving so fast. Its like I am running on a balance beam knowing, I am bound to overthink a step and fall flat on my face one of these days.
By Rilee Arey3 months ago in Families
Lost at Sea
My father loved ships. He would often go to the ports and just hang out there. He would talk with the crewmen and fantasize about the countries they had visited, the things they had seen, and the food they had eaten. He was a dreamer.
By Alexandra Grant3 months ago in Families
2 best friends that be came a beautiful family at the end of time Short story
This is a short story about how two best friends became a beautiful family. It starts with two people named Jessica and Ryan that started as friends in middle school. Then, they had plans to start a family after they graduated high school. A couple of years after graduation, they got pregnant with their first child. After the child was born, they named her after a Disney princess named Aurora and her middle name was her motther’s favorite flower which was a rose. Then, when Aurora was a toddler, she asked for a sibling who she wanted to share her toys with. A year and a half later, they had another child and she was named after her mawmaw who was having a little bit of health issues. When Aurora saw her mom and dad walked in the door with her baby sister, she wanted to hold her and help feed her. Each day that passes with a smile on their faces. Aurora and Christina share the most magical bond that their mom and dad didn’t have growing up. Jessica and Ryan have been blessed with the two beautiful girls that they planned on having, whenever they were just making a list of goals for their future. Jessica looks at her beautiful girls and smiles and tells Ryan this is what she wished for since she was a little girl. Aurora helps with getting her baby sister dressed and ready for bed that night. Ryan tells his beautiful daughters that they mean the whole world to him including their mother Jessica. They would spend time as a family at many cool places, like the museum that the kids can play at, or a restaurant that they haven’t been before. The best part about their family adventures is that they get to experince all the new things together and make trips to see Jessica’s family in Florida, during the holidays, or special occasions. For Ryan‘s birthday, Jessica, Aurora and Christina was introduced to his family and they loved all three of them. Aurora loved sharing her favorite toys like her baby dolls with her cousins or friends besides her baby sister Christina. Christina loves to be around her sister no matter where she goes. Jessica and Ryan loved to teach their kids about how to be kind and help others out when needed. There was a couple of trips that they made was to see Brandon, Kimmy, C.J and Regina Bell, who are their family who always have their back no matter what. They were part of a wedding before Christina was born and it was beautiful. Jessica and Ryan are planning to get married once everthing is going perfect for the whole family. There is plenty of adventures for them to come and many other things to enjoy for their big beautiful family adventures. Jessica really loves to her beautiful family that she has been praying for that would change her life in so many ways. Ryan has been looking forward to spend father/daughters dates and many other opportunities with them. Throughout the years from being in middle school and high school, they wanted to have a beautiful goals of having children and protecting the family foundation that they built from the ground up. Their family trips are very special to them by seeing the world together and they take pictures to have it in their memory box. Jessica and Ryan have made a special music playlist for their daughters to the have as a memory of their parents when they get older and know how their parents met back then.
By Jessica Bankston3 months ago in Families
The Biggest Mistakes Parents Make During Summer Break
While my girls were young, I worked during the summers, so they were in daycare. And summers in daycare were full of scheduled activities to keep the kids busy and engaged all day long.
By Sherry H. Bowen3 months ago in Families