Tag: text messages

• The problem with one-sided conversations…

  My husband and I left for a semi-spontaneous, brief beach vacation, leaving our 19-year-old son at home with his college classes and pizza delivery schedule. He was hanging out with his older brother when we left home; I sent him a text to let him know we were gone and it was safe to go […]

  Sara

  October 26, 2015

  family, Humor, Laugh, parenting

  Humor, leaving children home alone, mothering, text messages, vacation, worry

• No news is no news…

  

  It was after 9:30 before I decided I should at least try to sleep, but knowing my husband was driving alone on dark, stormy roads with a cell phone nearly out of battery power made me uncomfortable. I felt the same dis-ease I felt as a parent who was trying to sleep knowing her teenager […]

  Sara

  August 17, 2015

  family, Humor, parenting

  family life, staycation, text messages, travel mercies, vacation, worry

• When the day’s trouble is 6’3″…

  It was the start of a good day. I’d exercised and mentally prepared for the day ahead of me, which included celebrating my husband’s birthday and our anniversary. But when I arrived at school yesterday, I realized I had accidentally left my cell phone in my van. In fact, I hadn’t had the phone on […]

  Sara

  November 20, 2013

  character, family, Humor

  children, hamster, important of cell phones, NaBloPoMo, punked, text messages, tight squeeze