My Story

Over the last sixteen years that I have been a mother, I have found the adventure of being a parent thrilling, exhausting, heartbreaking, heart-expanding, and humbling. Mine began with enrolling in parent education classes in a local parent participation preschool when my opposite-from-me-in-so-many-ways daughter, whom I will call S, was two years old. S’s classroom teacher was also my parent educator, and she became one of my greatest lifelines in those early years, during what I’ve heard called “the longest shortest time.” [Read More…]