Graduating ... To Motherhood
As I sat around the dining room table at Thanksgiving this year, I had an epiphany that turned out to be larger than the golden brown turkey in front of me. All those younger-years memories flooded back to me until I realized: my mother was always there. She put her life on hold to make sure that my brother and I had a conventional "stay at home Mom," when she could have easily returned to work to pursue her career in chemical engineering.