My son turned 22 this past weekend, and just like every birthday, it’s hard not to think about what I was doing at that age.  

The year I turned 22, his dad and I were newly married.

I had just graduated from college.

The US president inaugurated that year was the first I’d had a chance to vote for.

I was living away from my parents for the first time (not counting dorm life), and beginning to figure out what I was going to be as a “grown up.”

My son’s life looks pretty different.

At 22, my son won’t drive or vote or get married. He’s not going to college, and it’s going to take a little more to figure out what he wants to do with his time post-school.

It’s a different life for him – and for me, as his mom.

But I do have one thing in common with other moms of young adults – whether their kids are getting ready to move out or practicing independent skills while staying home.

My friend sent me this quote recently: 

“Motherhood is really about accepting that fact that you will be permanently worried for the rest of your life.”

Ain’t that the truth?--

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