My job was to learn to balance the two, support only gently and left her fly far and away. The training wheels have come off and J is on her own. I am glad to be a friend and sounding-board to her in years to come - that will be my main role in her life. But she still loves the way I put her breakfast together - her favorite meal of the day. That may well be the strongest connection between the life she left behind and what is to follow. Each morning she may take a few extra minutes to make herself a breakfast she enjoys and in time there will be others in her life that look forward to it - her touch, her part in brightening the days of those who love her.
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Having J home for winter break was a great. Among other things, I felt that the universe gives us way more second chances than we deserve with kids. Their love is generous and for that I am grateful. It was a delicate balancing act learning how to be a mother to an adult, living her own life and on the cusp of independence. There is a part of her that enjoys the life she left behind here, being a baby and then there is the other that is her own woman.
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