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The Direction of His Beautiful Dreams: Thoughts on Sending My Firstborn to College

August 22, 2016 By Lorilee - 16 Comments

Yeah, I’m not quite ready to let my son go, yet. But the day draws nigh. Nigh! We are three days from “move in” day, and no amount of cheery videos featuring the Anderson University football team lugging boxes and bedding up three flights of stairs is making me feel better. I know—this is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teenagers Tagged With: Anderson University, Rob Lowe, sending children to college, teenagers, University

11 #Awesomesauce Mom Observations about the Care and Feeding of Teenage Boys

May 11, 2016 By Lorilee - 7 Comments

They will not, under any circumstances, take Women’s Multivitamins. I believe this is rooted in an unspoken fear of sprouting Fallopian Tubes.   If you take them on a Very Special Pilgrimage to the home site of your favorite childhood book—say for example “Anne of Green Gables”—one of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mom Humor, Teenagers, Uncategorized Tagged With: teenage boys, teenagers

11 Thoughts About “Eleanor and Park”

June 4, 2015 By Lorilee - 3 Comments

  1.The El DeBarge mention cracks me up. (Isn’t part-Korean Park supposed to look like Eldred himself?) It’s actually El’s 54th birthday today. Aren’t you wondering why I know that? 2. The book is set in 1986, the year I graduated. So, Rainbow Rowell kinda had me at 1986. Although…I did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teenagers Tagged With: Eleanor and Park, John Green, Rainbow Rowell, The Fault in Our Stars

Back to School Musings from Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, Rob Lowe, and Me

September 2, 2014 By Lorilee - 6 Comments

My sweet friend Heather recently dropped off her firstborn child at Smith College in Massachusetts. She’s a mess, of course, and deeply sentimental about this passage. Even though it’s a grand thing altogether that Sophie was accepted into such a magnificent university, and her future looks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mom Humor, Teenagers Tagged With: back-to-school, Little House on the Prairie, Rob Lowe

10 Thoughts on “The Fault in Our Stars”

June 18, 2014 By Lorilee - 16 Comments

  1. The book is better than the movie. (As if anything else was possible.)   2. Hazel Grace and Augustus are stellar character names  John Green had me at Hazel and Augustus. (Okay, so I’m a name freak.) I honestly think these honest, real-as-flesh-and-blood characters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Heaven, Movies, Teenagers Tagged With: John Green, TFIOS, The Fault in Our Stars

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