#8 Safely and Without Incident

Are you on your way home?

It’s around 9:40 p.m. last night and I’d just sent my 26 year-old daughter a text message. She didn’t respond, but a couple of minutes later my phone rang. She told me that she and her friend were headed to Applebee’s (ewww!) for something to eat before heading back home, which was about two hours away. I sighed the bone deep sigh of mothers all over the world and tried not to fuss.

“Okay, just don’t stay too long.” I knew I sounded ridiculous, she’s 26 for goodness...