by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Jul 22, 2022 | Parenting
Tomorrow we leave to move our son into his college dorm. Emotions come crashing expectantly and by surprise. It’s a culminating moment for a mama. It’s a theater screen in my mind as I play back snapshots and soundbytes of our son from womb to graduation. All of the...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Jul 20, 2021 | Life, Parenting
Summer of 2021 has been full of travels to colleges for Justin. All have promising programs for mechanical engineering. The very last one was John Brown University, a Christian university in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. I distinctly remember telling him, the night before...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Jun 10, 2020 | Life, Parenting
Can’t believe we are already in June!! Where did May go?? Some big things happened in May. One of those big things is our kids completed the school year…. with all A’s. Looking at their report card, you wouldn’t know that anything happened. They both...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Jun 6, 2019 | Parenting
For all the parents who are in the adolescent stage, what big lessons have YOU learned? I would love to know. We have a 13 (soon to be 14) year old daughter and 15 year old son. We are hitting some bumps around parent imposed boundaries, integrity and social media, a...
