I wanted them to play, wild and free, so I could wash them clean and tuck them exhausted into their beds each night.

It could have been anyone’s child that went missing at Magic Kingdom on that summer day two years ago. But it was mine.

As a mother of six, finding good children’s music is something I have braved over the last 15 years.

I want my sons to replace fear with curiosity. To greet the unknown with wonder, and with a desire to explore and understand.

Parenthood calls you to do things that you never thought you would ever, ever do.

Today, let’s all stand a little closer. Let’s not be immune to one another. Let’s stare fear down and decide NO MORE.

For the time that my life has intertwined with theirs, I've been convincing them that they'll be all right without me.

You represent the best of me. You are my every-day reminder that I am beautiful, I am strong, I am smart.

But Lovey, she’s ten; it’s time to let her go. Everything she needs from you, she already has—except the will to leave you.

We keep peeking ahead like this, peering from the soft spot of childhood into the limbo between here and adolescence.