Mothering, the first instant you do it, makes you a mom forever. It is not a certificate that is good for only a couple of years and then you have to renew it by logging in enough sleepless hours or cleaning off enough sticky hands or driving kids enough places. If you have ever done it, “mom” is a descriptor that is true of you forever. And equally true is that no matter how old your children get to be, there is always some way to do the thing that is at the deepest core of all motherhood: loving your children. Maybe this means letting them go a little.Maybe itmeans settling them in their first professional-kid apartment hundreds of miles from you. Maybe it means putting back the wayward beef jerky in the grocery store when your toddler isn’t looking. Maybe it means thinking of
your grown children and looking forward to the next time you might be together for a holiday or a long weekend or someone’s birthday. But it is mom love just the same, and in the truest cases, it is forever. Because true moms are moms, forever.
110 SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2021
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