True story. I cooked, cleaned & paid bills in my daughter’s house. She said, “If you can’t work, what’s the point of you being here?”

every day, and a mother who showed up every single day whether she felt like it or not.

Lauren grew up to be a determined woman. Driven, she married a man named Craig when she was 28, and they had two children, my granddaughter Sophie, who is seven, and my grandson Ben, who is five.

For the first years of their marriage, I visited when I was invited continue reading …