Last weekend, our youngest daughter, The Future Hospitality Manager, graduated from college. She is now A Current Hospitality Manager and started working at a new and trendy boutique hotel about 2 hours from home. She has worked a grand total of 4 days so far, and loves it! She will be moving soon into her new apartment with a new roommie and a new grown-up life and every possibility ahead of her. The other daughter, The Teacher, is well-settled into grown up life and is also loving it and is also about 2 hours away from home; thankfully both are in the same town. As I write this, I’m a little teary-eyed because my day-to-day job as a mom has officially....ended. Now, I know that a mother’s job is never really done; I know that grown children do have a way of coming back home and I know that a daughter always needs her mother whether she’s one day old or 56 years old (me) but that day-to-day carpooling, soccer-momming, lunch-making, laundry-folding, nurse-maiding, sibling