
Author Archive | Chelsea Ellingson


He Wasn’t “Just” a Dog: On Losing a Family Pet

Wave Your Freak Flag

Family History: Find Your Story

Solo Trips: Rediscovering the Woman Underneath the Mom
Last Saturday, I was dragging a wagon filled with two blankets, a diaper bag filled with snacks and coloring supplies, three fold-out camping chairs, and my four-year old buried somewhere underneath it all to her older sister’s last soccer game of the season. There were two other families making the trek across the field with […]

Holidays as an Introvert: My Top 5 Survival Tips
I’m dreaming of a . . . quiet Christmas. Remember that scene in The Christmas Story, right before Ralphie finally finds his Red Rider BB gun carefully hidden in the back corner of the living room? It was the moment after everyone had opened all their presents; Randy was asleep on the floor with his […]

Dealing with your Explosive Child
Living with “The Hulk” Flashback to Summer of 2015. It was probably hungry-o’clock in the afternoon for my seven-year-old son (we’ll call him “L”). My girls were in the other room likely watching a show or playing nicely. I was crouched on the floor of my bedroom, taking a shaky breather and crying. I could hear […]

Discovering Real Value in Mental Pictures
Last week my family and I took our first trip together to my grandmother’s house in Rhode Island. She lives on a magical little pond (although out here we’d call it a lake…tomato, tom-ah-to) that was home to my most favorite childhood memories growing up; picking blueberries along the sand, endless afternoons of playing […]