"Alexa wrote us a letter" my husband informed me as I arrived home from work the other night. (Alexa is our youngest daughter whose move away to college in September ended 22 years of fulltime parenting.) "You'll cry when you read it" he warned. He was right.
New Years always invites us to consider what we can become this year that we were not previously. (Thinner, smarter, cured of empty nest syndrome, etc.) So, having quarantined myself at home today with a head cold, I decided to make good on a long promised threat to turn my college age daughter Ari’s room into an office.My younger daughter, who will also move into a college dorm next year, is responding by playing her music extra loud as if to remind me, “I’m still here MOM!!!....”