Two people are allowed to call me “mom”: my 9-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter. (And even these two still call me “mommy,” which I treasure and will mourn when it disappears.)
But this doesn’t stop people who aren’t my children from calling me “mom.”
Article for the Huffington Post
Print article for Men’s Heath Magazine that appeared in the January/February issue. (A slightly different version also appeared online.)