let's get serious

[msaramat]

In a couple of months my kids will be going away to college and for the first time in 18 years I will not have to cook for someone else or referee fights or help with homework or shuttle people to practices. I won't see them everyday or hear about the daily happenings of their lives. When I wake up in the middle of the night the rooms I look into

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[shadownyc]

It's definitely an emotional time when you're close to your children and then have to watch them leave to finish growing up. It was fabulous and emotionally exhausting all at once. There are plenty of mixed emotions, but it's lovely that I still have a special relationship with both of my children even though they no longer live with me and my hubby. In some ways, we're closer than we ever were.

Best to all of you!

[msaramat]

They feel it, too. Every once in a while one of the kids will talk about leaving like they can't believe it's actually happening. They get those little epiphany moments when they realize that come September, things will be different.

I've been getting a lot of extra love lately. And not so much because they're worried about me, but because they're realizing this is the start of them really growing up and that is scary. But I'm not too worried about them. I think they're going to be alright.