Twas the night before I take my oldest daughter to college…
The car is packed. Yep! I’m so exhausted. I need to head to bed and get some shut eye before arising early in the morning to drive for 11 hours. I’ve been wanting to sneak some time to blog about this important milestone in our family’s life and it just didn’t happen. The only reason I am typing this up now is because I’m waiting on some cd’s to burn. I’ve been writing letters to her. These letters include a playlist of songs about the subject of each letter. I plan on sharing this on the blog sometime. Anyway, it is taking an eternity to burn these playlists for some reason. So I decided I would hop on and capture what I’m feeling.
Earlier when we were in my oldest’s room packing, I glanced over at my youngest to find her crying. She had just said before, “I can’t believe she’s leaving. I don’t want her to go.” She ran into my arms and sobbed causing a chain reaction…as I then began to cry. I honestly didn’t realize how much this was going to effect my 2 younger children…the oldest leaving. They both adore her.
It is going to be weird for all of us not having her here. So many people have asked me recently, “how are you holding up?” “Are you ready, mom.” I think I am ready. I am really excited for her. I know she’s ready and I know she will have a wonderful time. It will all be in God’s hands. I recently told a friend of mine… to be a mom, you have to be willing to have faith. Otherwise, you will be a nervous wreck and stressed out all the time. I’m so grateful for the opportunity she has to go to BYU in Idaho. I went there and received my associates degree when it was called Ricks College. It will be so fun to go back and see how the campus has changed over the 20+ years since I was there.
Getting everything into her car was no small feat. I have to admit we ended up leaving a few items here, but they are easily able to be purchased there. We made 2 trips to the store for more space bags today, but we did it! You should have seen my 2 girls and I as we very carefully shoved her memory foam mattress topper into a space bag. It took a while before we were able to seal the bag shut so we could suck the air out of it. {I put a video on Instagram today of us using a space bag.} We took turns sitting on it and punching it. I’m sure it would be a funny sight to behold, but I was not backing down. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
My disks are done so I’m headed off to dream land. I hope to plop a few photos on here tomorrow and keep in touch with our travels. I really do appreciate all of you who have expressed support of me during this monumental time in a mother’s life. Some of my dear friends on Instagram, who also have kids going to college, have been so sweet and we help each other. That means a lot.
Kids bring joy,
Fortunately, they are still having classes. A, my youngest, was teasing my oldest daughter saying, “I’m going to college before you!” It is quite funny because it’s sort of true. K, my oldest, will be headed to college in 4 weeks. The countdown has begun!
It’s just me…with shorter hair. Yep, I finally got up the nerve to try the pixie cut. This is plenty short and don’t plan to go shorter. But, I love it! If you had as thick hair as I do you would too. I’m grateful for people telling me I have the perfect face for short hair instead of exclaiming, “what did you do to your hair!?” lol 😉
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