Moms are people, too

It's wild, I know.

Photo: Abbie Bernet

A few weeks back, we visited my in-laws on the east coast. While going through old family photos, Christopher pulled out a snapshot of a grade-school birthday party where one of his friends’ moms was cutting the cake. She looked just like us: a person in her thirties-slash-forties. He said something super innocuous about how, as a kid…