As a Mom, I Will Always Need to Be Needed

My kids are getting old. And I don’t like it.

Wait. That sounded harsh. Lemme try that again.

Now that they’re in high school and college, my kids don’t need me anymore in the same ways they used to and I miss being needed as somebody’s mom.

See, it’s not that I don’t want them to grow up. Of course I want them to grow up. Like any mom, I want my girls to grow into strong, empowered women, with families of their own someday. I want them to be fiercely independent, to live big, and love passi...