Category: Words to Lacey

• ~Life is Not a Fairytale

  

  Dear Lacey, Between your busy social calendar, rigorous gymnastics training schedule, drill team practices, and keeping up in school, it’s common for you to be very hungry and very tired by the end of every day. After Thursday practice you mysteriously turned down Cane’s Chicken Fingers, insistent you needed to get home and finish schoolwork.…

  Laura Spaulding

  September 24, 2025

  Family and Faith, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Lacey

• Beautiful Crazy Love

  

  Dear Lacey, Do you remember the long-gone years of being strapped in a booster as I chauffeured your siblings all over town for hours a day? You didn’t complain much until you started getting physically sick every car ride, necessitating hospital-grade plastic receptacles be kept in the seat pocket in front of you. Boy, am…

  Laura Spaulding

  February 10, 2024

  Family and Faith, Words to Lacey

  Children, Faith, Family, friendship, grace, growing up, joy, love, marriage, middle school, motherhood, mothers, Parenting, siblings, valentines day

• Seasons Always Change

  

  Dear Lacey, After entertaining the idea of moving last year, Dad and I decided to settle in and get you and your sister graduated before leaving our beloved home of 15 years. Then the first week of March, just after my sycamore tree finally sprang back to life, a house came on the market tempting…

  Laura Spaulding

  June 10, 2023

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Lacey

  anxiety, cancer, change, Children, death, Education, Faith, Family, flood, grace, Grief, healing, homeschool, hurricane, joy, moving, natural disaster, nature, Parenting, recovery, seasons, survival, teenagers, trees

• Dinner Table Conversations

  

  Dear Lacey, I’m constantly wavering between guilt and thankfulness as I watch you grow up in the chaos and shadow of your three older siblings. One guilt, for example, is there are significantly fewer evenings all of us happen to be home and ready to eat at the same hour. And even fewer evenings I…

  Laura Spaulding

  May 13, 2021

  Family and Faith, Parenting Teenagers, Unity in Diversity, Words to Lacey

  Children, conversation, dinner table, Faith, grace, healing, justice, learning, listening, Parenting, politics, teenagers, thankful, truth, tweens

• Covid-19 Home School

  

  Dear Lacey, Every August for the last 12 years in anticipation of a new school year, the same conversations fill our home, the same shopping trips are taken, and the same prayers are prayed. Conversations that beg the questions- what if there are no friends in our classes, who will we sit with at lunch,…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 22, 2020

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  anxiety, beauty, Children, corona, covid19, Education, Faith, Family, grace, high school, homeschool, homeschooling, invisible illness, joy, junior year, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, middle school, Parenting, social distancing, top ten

• Teenagers!?

  

  Dear Lacey, About six weeks ago you turned nine years old! Almost double digits! For months I had been planning to sit down on the 30th of September and write you a lovely birthday letter about how precious and unique God has made you. I even started it at one point but never got past…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 28, 2019

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  butterflys, Children, Family, grace, growing up, high school, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, puberty, siblings, sisters, teenagers, time