Parent's scarey moment(s).

Go into your 24 year old daughter's room, look for laundry that may have been on the floor for a week (because you haven't seen her face in a week) and find a half empty package of BC pills.

Gently scan the room for laundry, back out slowly, bow your head and say a short prayer.

Put in a load of your own laundry. Ponder.

Go upstairs, get on your computer , put on some music on from your youth ( the 70s in my case) and remind yourself of the chances you took at her age.

Take a deep breath.

Get on with it.... and wait for that perfect moment to bring the subject up.

Realize that , in this case, there never will be that "perfect" moment free of tension.

Go with it anyway. Do you job. Remember your roll. Put it out there.

What? A note on the package? A message wrapped in humor? No. That will not do.

But what if you get so busy that you forget to say anything &/or that perfect moment passes?

E mail? No. Face it. Face -to-face is the only way to do this.

Have you secured a relationship with this child that is trusting? And do you realize that you just called a 24 year old a "child"? Are you perpetuating a "baby" syndrome? Do you just realize that you are referring to & struggling with the concept of your baby having a baby?

Listen. Do you hear that song by The Band? It is called, " Life is a Carnival".

Got that right.
Flash.