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• 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

• Sports, Space, Racecars, and Excavators

  

  Dear Cade, Daddy and I both, for different reasons, hoped that our first child would be a boy. I’d always dreamed of an older brother, so I thought it would be ideal for my oldest to be male, but for your sports loving Daddy he dreamed of shooting hoops and playing catch with his son…

  Laura Spaulding

  April 23, 2021

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

  Children, college admissions, counseling, Education, Faith, gifted and talented, grace, healing, high school, home, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, Parenting, teenagers, test scores, twice exceptional