Tag: daughters

• The Nature of Time

  

  Dear Hallie, Last August, when you hugged me goodbye in a Target parking lot surrounded by your new roommates and a trunk full of last-minute dorm necessities, you were full of both anticipation and fear. You had no strong expectations and only a handful of concrete plans: be yourself, find a church, make some friends,…

  Laura Spaulding

  July 1, 2026

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

  adult children, belonging, change, childhood, Children, college, darkness, daughters, Family, Grief, growing up, home, invisible illness, learning, light, loss, love, motherhood, Parenting, seasons, success, survival

• More to the Story

  

  Dear Hallie, I can’t believe we’ve managed to keep you alive for 16 years. I believed I was a great mom until you were born, realizing I just had two somewhat predictable children before you – your older sister eager to impress and your older brother eager for peace. You were born the unpredictable third…

  Laura Spaulding

  July 10, 2023

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting Teenagers, Unity in Diversity, Words to Hallie

  autism, Children, daughters, Education, Family, grace, high school, joy, mothers, Parenting, teenagers