Official College Students

It has been fun spending the last few days with Sadie, Kristen and Lauren getting Sadie set up for college. Monday was the start date, so being the obnoxious mother with a camera that I am, I had to take a picture of Sadie and AJ on their first day of school (college)! I think they will love it! It is a beautiful campus, Sadie likes all of her teachers, and there are many, many new friends to be met.
Truthfully, leaving home was a little rough. I don't send my children off very well. Eventhough I know it is a great thing, and that we are still a family, and that we still talk and see each other often, the initial parting rips some heart chords! Her apartment turned out to be nice, and setting up her room was very, very fun. Walking around campus looking for the buildings where her classes were going to be (without a map) in humid heat wasn't very fun, but Monday the air was cool and drier and at 85 degrees everyone had smiles on their faces!! We met Tod for dinner and then I left her in his very capable hands. Thank goodness for an older brother who has been there for a couple of years, who is being wonderful, and attentive and caring, and who can help and guide when necessary. And thank goodness for a great friend who is happy, and easy going, who loves macaroni and tomatoes, and who is strong and can carry tv's up three flights of stairs.




Lauren deserves a large shout out. She only had three twenty minute naps in three days. She went to IKEA (on Saturday/BAD IDEA), target (twice), Sam's Club, Dan's, restaurants, and Sadie's apartment (mostly trapped in her bedroom) and then back to her car seat for five days straight. She was a trooper. By Monday night, she was rubbing my pasta in her hair at Macaroni Grill, but when I whipped out my camera she was ready to give me a smile. I swear, not one of my children would have been so happy in such rough circumstances. And I know I wouldn't have been as patient as her mother either!

p.s.- last night jon, megan, hailey and i were sitting in the spa. hailey looked up and said, "i guess it's just the four of us now." luckily i was too tired to think too deeply about that comment...i will adjust!