Tag: seasons

• 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

• 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

• 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