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Because she loves to make sachet, I let my 11-year-old pick apart my anniversary bouquet of 14 roses, petal by petal. I handed her some newspaper and explained that she should spread the petals out to dry.
I came home to … a rose sausage.
She had decided to get creative. At first, she tried stitching the [...]

Thanks to Shamelessly Sassy for the inspiration for this post. I hadn’t thought about this in years. I know my oldest child doesn’t think I know what it’s like to be 18, but I do. I don’t know what it’s like to be young in her world, it’s true. But I remember mine. It’s not [...]

I’ve been prying staples from my teenager’s wall this week, pulling down her collage of images from magazines. Scraping candle wax off her nightstand. Emptying “her” bathroom drawer of lotions and eyeliner pencils. Sorting the tangled necklaces, stray playing cards, and other detritus in her room into logical piles and then packing them in cardboard [...]