My home is quieter today than it was 15, 10, even five years ago. My children are all in their 20s. And yes, it happened overnight, just as I feared.
I bowed to pray holding chubby toddler hands, looked up and they had moved out of the house. But retirement has not set in; the mothering never ends.
In fact, it gets increasingly complicated. I have found it much more difficult to parent grown people with ideologies, lives and free wills of their own.
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