Here is something I learned yesterday and I'm passing it on to you. When your daughter goes away for college the second time, getting an apartment with a one year lease that just about guarantees you won' t see her before Thanksgiving, don't:
...get her stuff out of the closets to get it ready for her brother to move into this empty room and then stand too long staring all all the stuff.
Seeing the doll house she got for Christmas from Santa one year will transport you in time.
Those underbed storage boxes full of her Barbies, Beanie Babies, and other childhood mementos where you can see the contents? Yeah - don't open them...
Don't gaze at her handprint from when she was 8.
Pay no attention to how empty her room, and the house, seems without her. If you do, just grab your tissues, have a good cry, and move on with your day.
What else can you do?
Gina
It is sad :(
ReplyDeleteMy daughters are like the sunshine to me too....
The good news is she is not far away and you could always hop in the car on a weekend and drive up for the day, right? <3
That makes me sad! Hang in there, Gina... I'm already dreading the "grown up" days...trying to hang on to this time now.
ReplyDeleteAwwww...sniff! I'm not quite there yet, but it makes me sad just thinking about it!
ReplyDeleteNote taken! I am not looking to this day either! Please pat yourself on the back for a job well done though! You got a child safely off to college! Angie xo
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