Always a mother. In early June I watched my oldest daughter graduate from college. As I stared down in the auditorium, I felt my…
Letting Them Go
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Today, I did the simplest thing. I was scrounging my house for things to put in our garage sale and walked through my bathroom,…
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“Just make it to eighteen.” That seems to be the unspoken goal of motherhood. After all there are charts after charts of the growing…
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Sometimes the last times wash over my heart like a wave. The last time feeling their little hand tucked in mine as we navigated…
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It’s so easy to love those kids of ours when they are little. When the biggest issue tends to be bedtime or that their…
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I sat across from her. The girl, my daughter, the girl who is now no longer a girl, but a woman. I looked at…