Off We Go

For just a moment, never mind 144(i), evergreen requirements, SPAC doldrums, Worm/Wulff yada yada yada. Sunday is the big day. We are taking my daughter to begin her freshman year at a prestigious university in the Northeast, less than four hours from our home. I think I am ready. I know she is ready though naturally a little nervous. Yet of course there is this sadness. That someone whom we have laughed with, cried with, been amazed, impressed and astounded by and yes someone who has sometimes frustrated and befuddled us for the last 18 years and 5 months (plus the 7.5 months in the womb- yes she was born nearly 6 weeks early), is ready to move on with her life.

As she is our oldest, we are experiencing this for the first time, and it is indeed quite traumatic. A sense of foreboding has engulfed our home for weeks. She is rushing to spend as much time as she can with her 6-year old brother, while also packing, finishing up the incredible charity work she does all summer (check her out at http://www.kidzz4kidzz.org/), and spending time with her friends (and learning this is the time one discovers who one’s real friends are). In the meantime, we need to get the little one ready for 1st grade, also a big step, but it is for now taking a back seat to “the big move.”

Change is good we are told. I joke with her that I am transforming her room into an “office slash den,” she tells me that’s fine as long as I switch it back every time she is coming home. As proud as I am and excited for her, this change is gonna take some getting used to.

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