Well, we're a group of moms with a common bond-- our kids and Texas A&M University. We have chapters all over the country that make up a federation with a common goal of supporting the university's many organizations and needs.

But we go beyond that. We share the same hopes and dreams for our kids: the same fears and worries. We share the same desire to see them through their four (or five...or six...) years as successfully as possible. We are married, divorced and widowed. We are comforting an empty nest. Or we still have kids at home. We are extroverts. We are introverts. And since we are mothers first and last, we sometimes need the help of each other to get us through the rough times...when we need to get information and numbers to call, when we need a little empathy after one of those irratic phone calls home or lack of one. Yes, we share it all, because after all we are, each of us, a member of the institurion of motherhood-- Isn't it grand?