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My First Year as a College Mom Is Complete

May 20, 2026

My First Year as a College Mom Is Complete

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Moms, dads and kids, we can all do hard things.

💪 That is one of the many things I learned this year as a college mom for the first time.

❤️ I am so happy to write that my husband Seth, son Max, and I all got through Max’s freshman year.

🚗 It was a very happy day when we headed there to pick him up and pack him up to come home.

🏡 It is so much more fun heading there to get him than it is to bring him back.

🎓 I know that he is at the college that he wants to be at.

💕 That makes it a little easier.

🌱 It has been an interesting year full of adjustments and changes.

🥹 My son went off to college and my dog passed away.

👩‍👧‍👧 I am left with my two daughters and two daughter kitties.

😅 Let’s just say that there is a lot of estrogen in the house.

😂 I feel bad for my husband.

🐾 He would reframe that and say that he is blessed with his three hormonal ladies and girl cats!

📝 I started to take notes about all the lessons I learned this year as a college mom.

You can go to whinypaluza.com to read the full blog and see what I learned from being a college mom for the first time.

📣Join me live tonight at 9PM ET on my personal Facebook page to chat more about being college parents and takeaways from the first year.

Laughing, Loving, Learning,
Rebecca Greene, LCSW-R

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