Motherhood has been one of the greatest joys of my life. There is nothing like holding that newborn for the first time and seeing them do all their firsts. Parents have the opportunity of seeing things fresh with youthful eyes again, as well as watching their children try hard and succeed at a number of things. However, parenthood has also been one of the most difficult challenges of my life. I have cleaned up my share of puke and poop, protected the younger one from certain death by means of the older one, driven kids to numerous practices and school events and play dates, dried tears from heartbreak, taught them how to drive, endured many complaints and whining, received a handful of principal calls, punished them for bad choices, helped them through their failures, and sat beside them in the ER, but the hardest thing I've done so far is letting them go. My son, my oldest, graduated from high school in 2020. I was fortunate to send him off to a junior college in a small town, whi...
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