wanting to write..

I don't blame you for being worried. In a few years that will be me! yikes! Who can write when their head is elsewhere? Maybe it's time to start a worry journal. It works and you can put your mind at ease.

Good luck!

Moms worry...that's only natural! I'm sure he'll come home safely. But I know the feeling. I worry about my son even when I know exactly where he is.....and I worry about my hubby too. I think it's a woman thing.

My dad was the worry-wart in my family. He would call several times throughout the day/evening to see if I was ok or if I needed any help. I knew that he only meant well, but it got annoying after a while. I'm sure your son will be home safe and sound soon enough.

Well, he is home and safe. Thank goodness. He said he had a good time. He saw The Mist. I didn't call him all night either.

Ah, Mom, you missed a chance for a really bad pun.
"I mist you too."

Well done, Sue. You wrote, that's good, and you've probably got something out of your system too.
I have found in the past that, especially during traumatic times, writing has been my outlet, like talking to a mentor; I'm explaining things to my inner me and in that way it doesn't bother anyone, least of all the someone who, I see, is causing me all the grief. However, it is good to let your son know how you care about him, but without some of the guilt-ridden stuff which will make him cringe.
Write. Write. Write. It's all part of the journey of self discovery.
Many a good novel started in that way...including How To be A Bad Mother!

You could be holding back a best seller!

Sue, today my 17 y/o walked in from work and said that there was an accident on Highway 12 between Santa Rosa and Sonoma and that it was a fatality accident. My older daughter, 22, had left for work and takes that road from Santa Rosa to Sonoma. I asked my daughter for more info but she had none. I got on the phone and called her work. The front desk said she was with a guest. I said thankyou. I don't need to talk to her. This is her mom and I just heard about that fatal accident on Highway 12 and I wanted to make sure she was okay. It was the manager and he was very nice and said she was fine and don't worry about having called. He understood.

That daughter is 22, she'll be 23 in January. We ALWAYS worry as parents. It won't stop with age. My 25 year old knows that he needs to call me when he knows there has been an accident on the news on the road he takes between work and home. He knows I worry. I don't even ask him to call me. He just knows.

Awww. :) All too soon, that will be me.

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Coyotes Remember

Hey Sue. You haveevery right too worry. Me, I don't have kids yet, but I know if they were teenagers I'd be just as worried. Well, hope alls well, see you around Gather!!!

It's only natural for a mother to get worried for her son. That means, you have a lot of love inside you that brings you close to your son. Such an awesome characteristic of being a mother.

I used to hate it when my oldest son, he'll be 22 in January, would go on his volunteer fireman runs.... oh I would listen to his scanner the whole time and make sure nothing was going wrong. Until a church fire and it was so hectic and I couldn't understand what was going on... I had to turn it off and not listen and was so glad when he came home so many hours later. I am so glad he is not on that dept at the moment...

worrying is a definite part of being a mother...i do not know of any mother who does not worry about her child at one time or the other... it's absolutely great being a mother!

I worry too, constantly. I worry if my husband is not home when he is supposed to be, and I worry if I am not with my kids.

The other night we had a bbq party, and I was going to drive some of our guests home. This was one of the rare occasions that my 18 month old son and I were not together. As a stay at home mom, he is always with me, and since he had fever cramps and stopped breathing this summer, I have become extra worried about leaving him.

Well, I am driving my husband's aunt home, and all of a sudden the thought of my younger son wandering off to the street comes to my mind. I become very worried, but after a few minutes the worries disappear.

The first thing my husband tells me, when I get home, is that he couldn't find our son, and that he had gone into the street.

It is amazing how closely connected we mother's can be to our children.

I too am a constant worrier. even when my kids are with relatives I worry out of my sight is NOT out of my mind ~ sigh~

My mother waited up for me until she died - and I was 56 then...so I know that mothers always worry until their kids get into the door...and into bed safely. Salud.

Sue, you can worry all you want it is part of your job. My sons are in their fifties, and when there is bad weather and I know they are driving, I wait for them to call me, and If I don't hear from them by their lunch hours, I call just to be sure they are okay, and they don't mind, they know I love them and worry, you can't turn off the "mother thing",

I worry every time my kids go anywhere!

You worry because you are a good mother. I wish that more parents were like you and kept a better eye on what their kids were doing.