Tag: love

• 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

• 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