Empowerment Coach & Blogger
Empowerment Coach & Blogger
Can you believe you have made it this far ? Your son/daughter is ready to start the application process. Let’s get ready. Preparedness is the key to a smooth application process. Each college may have a different set of requirements so it is best to do your research, take notes and gather everything before starting. …
Well. It’s been a long processes. It’s included tears, laughter, stress, joy, heartache and its time for the final decision. The Time Between. Between submitting the college applications and all the paperwork and the arrival of letters, our sons used the time to complete scholarships. I will be honest. There are a ton of scholarships …
Well, you have navigated through Step 1 and Step 2 in your college decision process with your son/daughter. You’ve got a pile of mail and a ton of emails and you can’t believe there will be an end in sight. Your mailperson is giving you a hardy handshake from having to carry all those parcels. …
You’ve completed Step 1 and your son/daughter have decided that college is on their radar. Where do you go from there? If your son/daughter has taken the PSAT/SAT/ACT then you have probably already started getting emails and stuff in the mail. It can be really overwhelming when it starts flooding in. If they haven’t taken …
As readers here at Before and After My Empty Nest, you know that I am mom to twin boys. We’ve raised them, sent them off to college and now it was time for them to graduate. How could four years have flown by so quickly? Besides regular everyday life, there were so many things to …
They Are Home!!!! The holidays are fast approaching. You’ve cooked for days. You’ve planned all of your child’s favorite meals. You are picking them up from the airport or their college on Friday and keeping them until Sunday. You have every minute of the day planned. You have missed your child so much your heart …
We’ve had over 31 years of adventure days, my husband and I. When people ask me how we’ve made our marriage work for over 30 years, this is what I tell them…. The Best Advice A month before my wedding, my grandmother pulled me aside and gave me two pieces of advice. One, marriage is …
I always hated “Double Trouble”. I always responded back, “Double Blessing!” After 9 years of married life, several jobs, multiple moves and a second house later we had twin boys. I will never forget dialing into my work voicemail at the Detroit airport before my flight home to Milwaukee. This was before cell phones, so …