It turns out that having teenagers/young adults is actually time consuming. I know, news flash for all of you who've walked this path, but I just didn't quite understand it. I was reading Rachel Hollis' Girl Wash Your Face (which by the way is delightful) and she has this chapter on new borns and how hard they are. As I was reading it, I could not help but think . . . wait, I feel that same way . . . now with teenagers! I don't get sleep, I'm constantly worried they're going to get hurt or kill themselves or worse, and I can't control anything and I mostly don't have any idea what they need or are saying . . . and you really never know if you're going to get any sleep because they come home late, or when they do come home they want to chat (if you're lucky) or just stomp off and don't want to talk at all and then you're worried for a whole other reason. Time consuming AND stressful. What the heck? I guess parenting is just ...