Giving Each Other Room to Grow Up

Beth VogtBeth K. Vogt, change, childhood, choices, expectations, family, Life, perspective, Quotes, Relationships 8 Comments

  @bethvogt   Sometimes I think my now-adult children believe I didn’t want them to grow up. Yes, there are days I miss their toddler voices. The funny ways they mangled words and their odd preferences for a particular food or a stuffed animal or a certain pair of pajamas. I’ll even admit to saying, “Why you want to leave …

In Others’ Word: More Kindness Than Necessary

Beth VogtIn Others' Words, Life, Relationships 9 Comments

It is kindess that is so often remembered. Not necessarily the grand gestures — although those are appreciated and valued and yes, even marveled at. But the little kindnesses can often be just what is needed to get us through those terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad days. The kindness of: a card that shows up in your mailbox at just the right …