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Why I’m celebrating the college drop-off*

August 21, 2017 By Wendy Willard · 2 Comments ·

Here's why I'm celebrating my kid leaving...

Well, we did it. We made it 18 years and dropped our first-born off at college. There are so many thoughts going through my head about this college drop-off that I realized it was time to write some down. I have three main points I’d like to make. *Note: this is about college drop-offs, not […]

Filed Under: + Growing Up, + Parenting, Family Life · Tagged With: college drop-off, college-bound, high school graduation

Growing up at summer camp

March 20, 2015 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Chop Point Summer Camp in Maine

Portions of this post were originally posted in the spring of 2012, but I wanted to revive it since it’s that time of year again… time to think about summer camp! I enjoyed a very Peter Pan type of childhood… well, if Peter Pan lived in the concrete jungle. 🙂 All the neighborhood kids spent endless summer […]

Filed Under: + Growing Up, + Parenting, Family Life · Tagged With: chop point, maine, summer camp, teenagers, teens

On Turning 40

February 20, 2015 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly (Photo courtesy of Iskra Photo)

A few years ago I started writing a post entitled “things I want to do before I’m 40.” I had forgotten all about that post until I found it in the bowels of un-published content on my site. I hadn’t gotten much past the title, so I’m not even sure exactly what I was thinking […]

Filed Under: + Growing Up · Tagged With: birthday, getting older

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