tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458209172050870245.post4887242693985785510..comments2023-10-28T17:20:44.712-05:00Comments on ALECIA STEVENS: Musings from an Interior World: Longest Hiatus Ever.....but back for Mother's Day. "Motherhood: The Default Setting"Alecia Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426487983534237960noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458209172050870245.post-77392401507361175042015-05-10T18:26:29.780-05:002015-05-10T18:26:29.780-05:00(Pressed 'publish' before done!) Your dau...(Pressed 'publish' before done!) Your daughter is beautiful (or course!) and you are right . . . those wine glasses are buckets!!Marian Quanbeck Dahlberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13684562211738284032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458209172050870245.post-30656517630671433852015-05-10T18:24:09.823-05:002015-05-10T18:24:09.823-05:00Hello Alecia, Oh, how I felt every single word yo...Hello Alecia, Oh, how I felt every single word you wrote! The sweet/sour pang of the fledgling learning to live life separate from the mother. As mothers, we rejoice at our great job in enabling their independence, yet feel sorrow at the void they leave. But perhaps there is light at the end of this long tunnel. I rediscovered my own parents when I started having things in common again . . . such as marriage, and children. Then suddenly my own mother became my best friend, my father - a close source of knowledge of the male thought process.. Perhaps we are to experience the joy of being a mother yet again . . . in a whole new and fresh way! Marian Quanbeck Dahlberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13684562211738284032noreply@blogger.com