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PCS Season

The PCS season starts earlier than you think.It usually hits right after the chaos of the holidays. You get the kids back to school and can’t catch your breath—you hit the ground running with preparations, and then you ride the back-and-forth wave(from Jan-June)—the one where you try to keep one foot in the life you’re […]

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Too Many Goodbyes

I was pregnant with our youngest son when 9/11 happened. In the first ten years of his life, Daddy deployed 11 times. Even when he was stateside and considered “home,” Dad was often still traveling for work. The leavings were hard, but so were the homecomings. There was this unspoken pressure put on the limited […]

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A woman looks stressed while working on a laptop and talking on the phone. Two children beside her focus on drawing, with sunlight streaming in.

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Life as a Mom with ADHD

I remember the day my son’s kindergarten teacher held my hands and pleaded with me. She was a patient, experienced and gifted teacher who absolutely loved my firecracker baby and I had learned to trust her. It was January and she knew she only had half a year left with him. She looked me in […]

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