Too Old for This

by Samantha Downing

You can’t live and not have regrets. Some call them life lessons and try to figure out what they’ve learned from each experience. That’s well and good, but you’ll always wish you hadn’t done it in the first place.

We fall into one of our favorite conversations and debate whose children have screwed up worse. Not that we keep score. That would be absurd. It’s more like we’ve come to understand that there is no mother-of-the-year award, and if there was, none of us would win it. I think that’s rather healthy of us.

Once you go down memory lane, it’s not always easy to get out.