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Guest Post: “Nobody Wants Koolaid” by Brie Tucker
This a monologue-type response to an article my mom wrote that I performed for my speech class today. It’s called Nobody Wants Koolaid (alternatively, “Things I Learned When I Moved Out”) and I wrote it about twenty minutes before it was due. Go me. Yay college. My mom wrote an article for a magazine the other night. The first line: Someone is always gonna want Koolaid.” It was essentially an article about how my parents are empty-nesters And no longer have four toddlers pleading for sippy cups to be filled with Koolaid. The take-away is that nobody wants Koolaid Because we are all self sufficient adults now. I’ll tell you the…
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Miss 14: The Year that Was and the Year to Come {Guest Post}
Once upon a time, Miss 14 went through my blog and counted how many times I mentioned her and found her numbers to be woefully low. As a remedy, I suggested that she write a guest post about whatever struck her fancy. She took the challenge and has now written her second guest post for me. Here, she shares her thoughts on the year that was and the year to come… A lot of things have happened this year for example: My dad got a promotion and we moved to Missouri, I go to a church that I absolutely love and the people are absolutely wonderful, my family is closer…
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Guest Post: My Daughter Shares Her Feelings on Moving
As you may know by now, my family is in the process of moving to Missouri from Pennsylvania. This whole event has been a whirlwind ~ everything is just going so quickly. But this move isn’t just happening to us adults, it’s happening to the our kids too. And, sometimes as parents, we get so caught up in how we feel about things that it rarely occurs to us to ask our children their opinion about events. After talking to my daughter, I decided to give her the opportunity to share her feelings with my readers. My dad told me things were going to start moving really fast. I didn’t…
