Tag: growing

• The Relativity of Success

  

  Dear Cade, Two decades ago, when you first entered the world, I wasn’t much older than you are now. I was young, naïve, and full of hopes, dreams, and expectations of the kind of man you’d become one day! Slowly but surely, you’ve blow every one of those hopes, dreams, and expectations to bits! When…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 21, 2025

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Unity in Diversity, Words to Cade

  ADHD, adult children, belonging, Children, college, Education, Faith, Family, gifted and talented, grace, graduation, growing, growing up, joy, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, motherhood, mothers, neurodiversity, Parenting, seasons, siblings, son, strength, success, truth, twice exceptional

• Mothers and Daughters

  

  Dear Kori Jane, Being the mother of a published author fills me with immense pride and maybe just a tiny bit of fear of the stories you’ll tell about our crazy family! A few weeks ago, your little sister came home concerned about my reputation after being asked by a friend if your poems were…

  Laura Spaulding

  February 17, 2025

  Family and Faith, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Kori Jane

  beauty, childhood, Faith, Family, friendship, grace, grandparents, Grief, growing, healing, joy, motherhood, mothers, Parenting, travel

• Never Alone

  

  Dear Kori Jane, Last year, this mother of yours reluctantly agreed to an all-day bike ride through the mountains of Montana. As you are aware, I’m not exactly fit and I have no cycling experience. Our dear friend Devon, having traveled this road before, assured me the trail was mostly downhill, and the views would…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 1, 2023

  Family and Faith, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Kori Jane

  adult children, beauty, bicycling, Children, cycling, darkness, depression, Faith, Family, friendship, grace, Grief, growing, healing, joy, light, middle age, motherhood, mothers, nature, Parenting, strength, truth, tunnels

• Grocery Stores and Dirty Floors

  

  Dear Kori Jane, In the two years between Daddy and I’s wedding day and you crashing our party, I used to love going to the grocery store. Perhaps because I’d lived with my own mom right up until that very moment, so the thrill of being in charge of filling a refrigerator and pantry with…

  Laura Spaulding

  June 5, 2021

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

  childhood, Children, creating, Education, Faith, Family, grace, graduation, growing, growth, high school, joy, Parenting, siblings, spiritual gifts, teenagers, writing