This is The Moment: Spring Break and Everyone Under One Roof Again

My son is home from college for spring break.

Everyone is back under one roof (all of them currently sleeping) but we’re all together, and it instantly feels like all is right with the world again.

When he left I didn’t grasp what a big deal this would start becoming. The week he left for college I recall talking with my neighbor (a retired mother of four and grandmother to a ton. I think she is starting to lose count of grandchildren now.) She said, “Once the first one goes, then ever so qui...