Taking our first born to college

I’ve been home 3 days since taking our daughter and first born to college. She is going to school in the northeast, so school didn’t start until after Labor Day.   She was very ready to go because all of her friends were already gone.    I knew having her so far from home would be the hardest thing for me to deal with.  Moving her and ALL OF HER STUFF went somewhat smooth.  After making friends with a woman at the mail room, we shipped our daughters many boxes and this wonderful lady made sure they were waiting for us at the dorm.  The school had upper classman at the curb to help unload cars and carry everything up to the dorm rooms.  The only hang-up was picking up our order at Bed, Bath and Beyond…it was located in the mall.  This is not a mall like we have in Texas, you know, easy parking!!!  It had 2 parking garages, one at each end and we of course parked at the wrong end.  This was after enduring the incredible traffic jam due to a festival that was going on in downtown Providence.  Needless to say the stress level was quite high!

By the time we had everything unpacked and we left our daughter on her own, we were all exhausted.  No one cried, the look my daughter gave me when I was leaving, was  “Don’t you dare…”  Her father and I went in search of a bottle of wine.

Since coming home, I have tried really hard not to call and bother her.  I have had to call or text with information to which I recieve one word answers.  It hit me as I was shopping at the grocery store today that things are really different.  I would go to pick up something and realize I didn’t need it because our daughter was the only one who would eat it.  I now have to endure the NFL network all night because my son now has control of the remote control.  I even feel bad for her cat, who seems to be missing her as much as I do!  Our child has an incredible passion and we know she will succeed, but will she have clean clothes and remember to take her meds?  My good friend who also sent her first born to school said her son doesn’t return any of her phone calls or text messages.  We agreed, this is not such a bad thing…we did our jobs and our children are ready to be out on their own, even though we aren’t quite as ready as they are.