Terri Spaulding, Contributor

Ask Terri who she is and she’ll look you in the eye and tell you: woman, wife, mom, friend and worker bee. Her stories originate from life as she knows it, with an added dash of humor and a splash of optimism. Never afraid to take a stand, she occasionally finds herself in the wrong, and isn’t afraid to admit it. At the end of the day she believes that you can’t sit back and wait for life to happen, you have to make it happen. And it has to matter.

Terri writes about life, marriage, growing older, parenting and many things in between. She draws inspiration from her 26-year marriage to her college sweetheart, Mike, and parenting insights from raising their two teenage boys, Alec and Mitch, and their “almost” daughter, Sadie.

For more of Terri’s musings, please visit her blog, When I Grow Up

Follow her on Twitter at @spauldingterri