Sharing Our Childhoods With Our Kids
My family and I spent the last two weeks “back home,” “back home” being central Iowa and eastern Nebraska where my husband and I spent our formative years. Our kids think it’s weird when their parents talk like this because to them, home is where the puppy is. Where Dad and Mom grew up (read: no puppy…) can’t possibly be “home.” Ironically, my daughter challenged me to read and finish a book on the plane trip back to Iowa: On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the diary of the trek she and Almanzo and Rose took from DeSmet, Dakota…
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Confucius once said," You give your children two things, roots and wings". Aren't roots fun?