Can I get a Hail Mary and an Amen?

It’s that time of year when the kids head back to school after the holiday break….can I get a HAIL MARY and an AMEN??  It’s both a blessing and a curse……huh?  All kidding aside, I love when my daughter comes home from college, but I dread it at the same time too! She is independent at school, can come and go as she pleases; but that doesn’t work so well when she comes home.  Let me rephrase that….it doesn’t work so well for me.  I am a worry-wart by “mom-ly” nature and want to know she is safe on my watch.  I can’t tell you why it is so different when she is at school, but it is.

We usually come to a compromise, both secretly wishing we had it our way; but making a workable situation for mother and daughter.  As parents, we think we have prepared our children to be responsible adults, but when they really are, we wish we still had all the control.  Somewhat reluctantly…..fly my little bird, fly.

This almost empty-nesting gig is hard; I am guessing many of you feel the same.

xoxox….Sheryl