Category: Conversations with Colin

My son’s 4th-grade teacher asked me to describe my son in “a million words or less.” I was tempted to send her my coffee table book

If you’ve been around here long, you know I love to write about my 9-year-old son Colin. He’s fabulous: very clever and extremely sweet. It takes

If you’ve been around here long, you know I love to write about the quirky conversations that my son Colin and I have. He’s fabulous:

Some days I’ve got a shorter parenting fuse than others. Last week was one of those times. I went into my daughter’s closet to find a

A week before Easter, my son and I had an interesting conversation about the Easter Bunny. If you know my Colin, this could have gone any

For sixteen years, we had a cat named Chili. We found her as a kitten abandoned in the parking lot of Chili’s restaurant (don’t judge—I

My 8-year-old son Colin and I were sitting in the car waiting for my daughter to finish her music lesson. He was reading a book,

My husband and I do regular date nights with our kids. We alternate which kid we go out with, and we let the kids

When we bought our house, we spent every last dollar of our savings on the down payment and closing costs. We were completely and totally

When Kramer (you know who Kramer is, right? RIGHT?!) created his coffee table book about coffee tables, I fell in love with the idea of

My son Colin and I pull into Target after dropping off my daughter at dance. His eyes light up. (He loves Target as much as

Sometimes I worry about my son Colin. I worry because he tends to play by himself rather than join in group play. I worry because