My Children Have Paws…

5 Tips For Surviving Mother’s Day

By Katy Cable -The Weekly Runt
A 4-min. read
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In honor of Mother’s Day, I’d like to dedicate this blog to those special, often over-looked women whose “children have paws.”

My heart goes out to women who have a difficult time on this holiday. While this year I may have a joyous Mother’s Day to celebrate, there were year’s when awkward family dynamics and unmet expectations made “Martyr’s Day” seem more apropos. I hope sharing my story and survival tips will help get you through the day and make it special.

Mother’s Day just a few years ago my daughter was graduating high school then heading off to college. If that wasn’t enough, my beloved Pug Raisin, made his final departure for Rainbow Bridge.

I was approaching “empty-nester” status, wondering what I would do with my life. For the last 18 years I’d been consumed as a stay-at-home “MOM-ager” to my daughter who had been acting professionally since infancy. Very soon I would be putting her on a plane to attend college clear across the country. The time had come to get off the runway and let her take flight.

I sat in my quiet, clean, empty house battling severe depression while firing out job resumes through a waterfall of…