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I see Mary rushing along, hurrying all the other children trying to keep up behind her, coming to have a needed talk with her son, Jesus. Her thoughts: "He can't be eating well doing all this traveling around the countryside. And look at the people he has to deal with, tax collectors and prostitutes. Oi vey! And the Romans! The Romans! What about the Romans. What is he thinking? That boy, always so headstrong. He needs to settle down, raise a family, then he'll see the heartache of a parent."
I see her coming upon the large crowd gathered around her son and shaking her, rushing to the nearest man to her, turning him around and ordering him to fetch her son. "Tell him his mother is here," and staring down anyone who dared look in her direction.
I think Jesus stole a look at his mother, tried to convey with his eyes the sorrow at what he had to say next. And I think she saw and understood this brief exchange, knowing only as a mother would know that her son was now beyond her caring reach. 
What did she experience on the long walk home? Or did she follow her son, now afraid to let him out of her sight, and still determined to have a word with him?
If we take, as you pointed out, "A young woman who looked THE FREAKING ARCHANGEL GABRIEL in the EYE and said “Yessir, I will give birth to the SON OF GOD.” What the what??" What the what would she do?