August 5, 2007

  • I've blogged about my oldest daughter leaving for school.

    Last night (today) my youngest left.

    I've got no spare child left.

    Why does it feel so bad when everything that we've wantend them to become actually comes about and they sprout their wings and fly without us?

    Yes, I'm happy she made the drive from Indiana to South Carolina.  Yes, I'm sad she did it without me.  How could she do this without me?  What am I to do now that she is steering without me?

     

Comments (7)

  • I don't even know what to say. It's a rough reward for doing all the right things as a parent.

    My son will be going to college next year and won't be going that far and I'm crying already.

  • To the very end... parenting is not for the faint-hearted. My mom said the hardest to watch leave is the last one to go... I do not look forward to (and yet I very much look forward to) when my two are ready to fly.

  • I know it is hard.  I only have the one, and although her college chice was fairly nearby, it was a wrenching moment.  Even when they return home, life is never quite the same.  It is a privilege to enjoy the day-to-day give-and-take with them.  I have been warned that graduate school will most likely be very far away, so I am trying to prepare myself for that, in less than two years.  I think it will still be hard.

  • trust me, it's not over.  i'm 26 in university, still a kid basically!  noone really just leaves home, graduates, gets married then gets a career anymore.  there's a lot more stuff in between, back and forth, up and down, good and not so good to go through.  you'll always be a parent. 

  • awww! There still yours.

  • You are still here!!!! I left and came back and finally found you again, HURRAY.  Formerly Dobermanmom!

  • I agree with beauty - as a non-parent (but still a kid) there are a lot of things that parents can still do for their children. Look at who you've created and marvel at how independent and brilliant she is. You and Deb can take credit for that. And she'll always be your daughter. You can look forward to more meaningful conversations with her (my dad told us not too long ago about some of his drunk driving stories of yesteryear... ha!) and becoming more of a real person to her. I think that a lot of kids see their parents as perfect and unchanging, when in fact people change every day and are wrong all the time. Maybe now is the time to be a friend, and a dad.
    ps: send her a care package. And cookies.

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