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After Motherhood What’s Next?
If you find yourself, it is not the end of the journey; The real journey begins from there. Unknown
As a mother, you have been the most supportive person in your children’s life. Starting from birth by feeding them, teaching them how to walk, talk, learn their alphabets and numbers, and even potty training them. As they grow, you’re there for every milestone in their life from kindergarten to middle school and high school. By the time you look up that little face has changed into a young adult walking across the stage getting their high school diploma and heading off to college. I remember sitting watching my son Jonathan’s name being called and screaming at the top of my lungs as he walked across the stage. As I stood there soaking in runny mascara, I thought omg what am I going to do now?
I sat there thinking I had done my job, and my kids were moving upward and onward with their lives. My son Justin, who is autistic, goes to a day program and he is enjoying his best adult life, and my two sons are in college. It finally dawned on me that I was entering the empty nest stage of life. For a moment I almost got super emotional about it but then something dawned on me about how I put many of my goals and aspirations on hold for the benefit of my children which I would do all over again. I thought to myself how do I get back to me? What other goals have I laid aside…
