Letting Go
The journey from the cradle to college is almost over for my first born. It hit me with fresh awareness as we visited her future college and when the bill was presented to be signed it was her signature that they requested, not mine. This year was filled with college applications, senior activities and a plethora of “lasts”, all leading to the hardest part of my job: letting go. From the time my babies were placed in my arms I knew that this day was coming, hanging...
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My daughter recently took her PSAT test and thus the college letters have begun to arrive in our mailbox beckoning her to schools across the country. She’s fifteen. I have two and a half more years with her before she spreads her wings and flies out of our nest. I’m not going to lie; the idea makes me want to throw up. I’m holding on to these “family years” with a death grip, but I know my time is fleeting. These fifteen years have undeniably been the best of my life. Exhausting, frustrating...
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