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A Rose By Any Other Name
Written in December 1998 A rose by any other name … just doesn’t smell as sweet. At least not to my 3-year-old son Tanner, who was planted this year in the preschool class of Mrs. Heather Rose. To...
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Love Lives On Through Grief Rituals
Republished Sept. 23, 2015 on Military Spouse To honor her husband’s 40th birthday last month, my friend Chrissy thoughtfully planned a day filled with his favorite festivities: a competitive round of...
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Confessions of a (Not Yet Ready to Retire) Baseball Mom
In our family, baseball has always been less of a pastime, more a way of life. So when faced with the question of whether our daughter would embrace the sport with equal zeal, we knew she was coming to...
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The Pitch That Launched A Thousand Emotions
While pitching an inning in the final game of his college season today, my son intentionally tried to peg a batter. And I couldn’t be more ecstatic. Yes, I recognize that as a parent, this isn’t the...
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An Open Letter To My Daughter’s Preschool Teacher
Dear Mrs. Kloos, Please forgive me for barely managing to eke out a hurried “hello” this morning when I dropped off Aubrey at preschool. I’m sorry I couldn’t make eye contact with you, or ask how your...
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15 Things I Almost Missed Out On (Before Having A Girl)
By the time my daughter, Aubrey, made her unexpected debut into the family, my resume as a proven MOB (Mother of Boys) was padded with 15 years of hard-earned, sweat-stained experience. Forget snakes...
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Note: Please ingest your sarcasm pill prior to reading. Oh Facebook Friends, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways … I love you first thing in the morning, and at the end of a long day. While on...
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Why I No Longer Have Any Desire To Be The ‘Cool Mom’
We were vacationing in Maui last summer, celebrating my oldest son’s high school graduation and savoring the final weeks before he would be traipsing halfway across the country to college, when I made...
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5 Things That Don’t Change When Your Kids Go To College
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy / Club Mid Republished on All 4 Women It’s that inevitable time of year again. Social media is ablaze with tear-stained posts by...
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7 Things To Expect When You Have Another Baby After 40
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy / Club Mid We call Aubrey our “unexpected blessing.” It has a better ring to it than “Whoops Baby.” To say that my third child came as a...
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What I Learned When My Son Gave Up His College Scholarship
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy / Club Mid After just one year, my son is walking away from a near full-ride college scholarship. He doesn’t have an offer to play...
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7 Ways My Husband’s Exercise Routine Is Like A Teenage Girl
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy / Club Mid If our house was on the verge of burning to the ground and my husband had time to grab just one possession, he would flee...
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My Unexpected Struggle To Embrace 46
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy / Club Mid Today I celebrated my birthday with 46 candles adorning the cake. Normally I would insert some lighthearted, pithy,...
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The 4 Stages Of Tracking My Teen’s Cell Phone
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy / Club Mid Just call me Stalker Mom. I admit it: I tracked my teen’s cell phone, and I make no apologies about it. Of course, he is a...
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Rediscovering The Write Stuff
This story is my first contribution to the blogging group, Finish the Sentence Friday. This week’s writing prompt is: “In 2015, I learned….” In 2015, I learned I was a writer. Actually, learned may not...
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6 Life Lessons I Learned From My Ovaries
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy Last year, my long-standing love/hate relationship with my ovaries came full circle: I had a complete hysterectomy on my oldest son’s...
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Confessions Of An Acupuncture Virgin
This post was originally published on Ravishly Like many people, I’m not a huge fan of needles. So while acupuncture wasn’t my first choice to treat bulging discs in my lower back, over a 6-month...
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We Made It: Reflections On My Divorce
This post was originally published on Ravishly and later republished on Mamalode I am rummaging through kitchen cabinets — scrambling to piece together a “starter cooking kit” for my eldest son, who is...
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6 Tips For Surviving Your New Teen Driver
©2015 Melissa Tamberg-Heffron, as first published on Scary Mommy Few teenage rites of passage are met with as much sheer excitement (for them) and unsurpassed terror (for us) as when our offspring hit...
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What Does A Bucket List Look Like For A 5-Year-Old?
This post was originally published on Ravishly Today I did something I had never before even considered; I contemplated the activities that might comprise a bucket list for my 5-year-old daughter. If...
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A Letter To My Son On His 20th Birthday
Twenty years ago today, you alone forever altered the framework of my life, transformed the tapestry of my very core. You made me a mom. As you pushed your way into this world after 12 hours of labor,...
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Beyond Words
It’s not often that I find myself at a loss for words. I’m a writer, after all; words are my lifeblood. Normally they course through me like the tides, rising and falling with the gravitational forces...
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6 Reasons I Support My Son Being A “Quitter”
Few things have the power to instantaneously pulse terror through a mom’s veins like hearing your teenager gasping for breath on the other end of the phone. I discovered this firsthand a few weeks ago,...
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On Strollers & Car Seats
This was originally published on Mamalode She responds within minutes to my post on Craigslist, visibly grateful to have stumbled upon such a terrific deal on a brand-name jogging stroller. (Full...
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The 45 Thoughts You Have After Getting A Post-Mammogram “Call Back”
This post was republished on Blunt Moms and Maximum Middle Age. Nobody ever bothers to answer the landline in our house. There’s really no reason to pick up the antiquated appliance, because every...
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The Most Important Question To Ask Your Teen
This post was originally published by Grown & Flown I pop my head into my son’s room to say goodnight and am not surprised to discover him in the same position I find him almost every weeknight:...
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What Matters Most
When I said my prayers last night, I forced myself to give thanks for liquor and lice. Yes, liquor and lice; indisputably the two greatest challenges of my weekend. I had discovered on Friday that my...
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This Is Why I’m Crying Over The End Of College Baseball
In light of the gravity of the Coronavirus pandemic, the grief I have been experiencing the past few days over the dissolution of the college baseball season has been accompanied by a nagging sense of...
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