I held my son's hand until the teacher asked all the parents to leave (oh please, I thought, not yet). My legs felt like lead as I drug myself to the door. My eyes moistened. My throat tightened. Like most Moms, I felt pretty anxious about school. How could he already be in Kindergarten? What [...]
When my daughter Caroline graduated from college, I was thrilled to have at least one child out of school. But in 2018, she headed back to school. AGAIN. The day she began graduate school, I had a lot of conflicting emotions:Nostalgia: how can this be? Seems like only yesterday I was sending her off to first [...]
Seriously: I. Was. Not. Okay. It was 96-degrees the day we moved our twins into their dorm rooms, but my heart felt like a block of ice. Back and forth to the car I trudged, as if it were the end of the world. My boys were leaving home. Leaving the nest. Leaving me. As [...]