The In-Between

In all my years as a mom I have never been so sad on a birthday.
I woke up weepy and my burbling emotions ebbed and flowed throughout the day.
A few weeks prior to this I was chatting with someone else and her empty nest experience was the opposite.
It sounded like Margaritaville at her house and it didn’t even need to be 5 o’clock anywhere.
Somehow life tilts itself back into balance no matter if we want it to or not.