Cheryl Gottlieb Boxer resides in New Jersey, where she micromanages a husband, her teenage children and a confounding cockapoo. Her writing has appeared in The Mighty, Grown and Flown, Her View From Home, Kveller, Parent Co., Motherly, Sammiches and Psych Meds and CollegiateParent. You can follow Cheryl on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/nosickdaysformom and on her blog at www.cherylgottliebboxer.com.
So now as my daughter prepares to also leave for college, she is beginning that familiar process of deciding what is so important that it must go with her. For a mom it is not a process that gets any easier with practice.
I am my mother’s daughter, and each day of my young life began in her harvest gold bathroom where she worked taming my coarse and stubbornly frizzy hair.