Tag: siblings

• 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

• 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

• The Things that Matter Most

  

  Dear Cade, You challenge me! You challenge me in ways all 16-year-olds challenge their mothers, but it’s so much more than that! You also challenge me in ways only an absent-minded professor challenges and confounds everyone they meet. While you miss obvious and practical realities staring you in the face, you’re more awake to the…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 20, 2022

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

  Children, church, diversity, Education, Faith, Family, gifted and talented, grace, high school, joy, Parenting, siblings, teenagers, truth, twice exceptional, unity

• 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

• Teenagers!?

  

  Dear Lacey, About six weeks ago you turned nine years old! Almost double digits! For months I had been planning to sit down on the 30th of September and write you a lovely birthday letter about how precious and unique God has made you. I even started it at one point but never got past…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 28, 2019

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

  butterflys, Children, Family, grace, growing up, high school, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, puberty, siblings, sisters, teenagers, time