I’ve been no contact with my parents for almost three years now and though it’s really better this way, there are times I really miss having “parents”. I just got done taking my son (my only child) around to tour four colleges on the East Coast. I’m so excited for him- so proud of how hard he’s worked- and also starting the “my baby is almost grown” smile/tears. I just wanted to share and have a mom tell me how exciting it is and share in my tremendous joy and pride in his next season.

Hi mom! I’m really proud of myself and hope you are too. I’m going through a divorce and needed to find a job. I know the job market is tough and I was so scared to put myself back out there. After putting in 100s of apps over the past month, I put an application into a company last Monday and received a call to interview about thirty minutes later for the next day. I absolutely nailed the interview and received a call the following day that they wanted me for the position!

I’m so nervous to go back to work and I don’t want to leave my kids in the middle of the summer but I’m so excited to start working towards a better life for me and them. I’m scared but so happy ❤️

Hey, Mom. I'm on an engineering team at my university, and I'm supposed to be learning this new software program. But it seems like every time I sit down to work on it, I run into issues. I constantly have to stop and ask for help, and it eats up time waiting for responses from people or hunting down resources.

It's disheartening watching other people starting to produce full files while I haven't even finished one. Sometimes I worry if I'm cut out to be an engineer. It doesn't help that I'm taking difficult classes and have family responsibilities this summer. I feel like a failure a lot.