Grown and Flown

• This New Guide to Instagram Makes Parenting in the Social Media Age Easier
  When my fifteen year old son came to me last year and told me he wanted to sign up for an Instagram account, I said yes immediately because I knew this moment was coming. For several years before he decided he was ready to join social media, we talked almost daily about the effects of […]
• My Son Is a Sophomore And No, I’m Not Shoving College Down His Throat This Year
  After having my first child I don’t even think we were home from the hospital when questions started pouring in about when we were going to have another. I couldn’t even wrap my brain around nursing my first one much less thinking about having another child take over my body for almost 10 months. It […]
• All The Things I Think, But Do Not Say
  Hello. My name is Carrie. I am almost forty-four years old. I am married to a man name Joe, and we have five kids. As I approach the middle of my fourth decade, I am noticing more and more all the things I think, but I do not say. First of all, my body is […]
• As a Mom, Where Does Worry End and Anxiety Begin?
  As I was driving my kids to school the other morning I was asking them about their day and getting nothing in response except for a few mutters. I could feel myself becoming anxious, wondering if anything was going on they didn’t think they could tell me. I let them know I wanted them to […]