My Son Is a Sophomore And No, I’m Not Shoving College Down His Throat This Year

After having my first child I don’t even think we were home from the hospital when questions started pouring in about when we were going to have another.

I couldn’t even wrap my brain around nursing my first one much less thinking about having another child take over my body for almost 10 months. It was as if getting married and having a baby enters you into a race of “hurry up and do all the damn things now because you aren’t getting any younger.”

I wanted to be in the moment and enjoy him a...