Tonight was my daughters’ Middle School Spring Concert. All the hours of hard work, practice and driving everyone crazy at times this year paid off for Andrea. Out of all the 6th-8th graders, my 6th grader was awarded the single “Most Improved” certificate for the band at the end of the night. I’m so proud [...]

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If you are unfamiliar with the Type-A personality, I found a fairly succinct, albeit rather simplistic, definition: “Temperament characterized by excessive ambitiousness, aggressiveness, competitiveness, drive, impatience, need for control, focus on quantity over quality and unrealistic sense of urgency.” Wow. Did the author of this sentence have Andie in the forefront of his/her mind when [...]

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I wrote the following a couple years ago because the situation took me so off guard, but I feel it’s still worth sharing. The other day my daughter informed me that a boy in her second-grade class said she is “hot.” Excuse me?!?! Did I actually just hear this? Although my jaw pretty much dropped [...]

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