by Kelly Richardson | May 19, 2022 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
Dear Class of 2022, Congratulations, you made it and the finish line is right there. You are breaking the tape that crosses from childhood to adulthood. Your first marathon—from elementary school to high school- is over and you are all winners for making it to the...
by Kelly Richardson | May 12, 2022 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
(Before I begin, I did ask this young man’s permission to share the story and his picture and his response was “Absolutely”). Last weekend at Senior Ball I was waiting to clean up as the dance winded down when a young man approached me and caught me off guard. Then he...
by Kelly Richardson | Apr 26, 2022 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
“Don’t blink” they told me. Not possible I learned. I blinked. Today marks the one month countdown before graduation. A journey that began when MySpace was popular. It’s the last hurrah of high school. Our last dance. The final chapter in Book 1. The end of a...
by Kelly Richardson | Feb 1, 2022 | Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
Once on a middle school field trip my good friend decided to moon a random car on the freeway from his spot in the back of the big yellow bus. Only that “random” car wasn’t so random, it was the car of chaperones. He got busted big time. In high school my friends and...
by Kelly Richardson | Oct 19, 2021 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Teenagers
It’s a moment I’ll never forget. I was a senior in high school and working on writing my college applications. Back in the day, everything was done on a typewriter or hand written. It was a long process and my parents’ dining room table became a makeshift...
by Kelly Richardson | Aug 31, 2021 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
It’s a story I’m embarrassed to tell. But we moms need to shed our shame-coats and share these moments because mom-love is a universal language. The day we dropped my oldest son off to begin his freshman year of college feels like yesterday. It was one of my proudest...