As Sprat is heading back to College, I have been looking back on how the hubbs and I got where we are. We started out as two dumb young people trying to make a living and learn about life. The hubbs and I met during my first job out of college. I moved several hours away from my folks to go to work in a lab right out of college. Luckily, one of my friends from college also worked at the lab and we were able to get an apartment together. The hubbs was my lab partner and for me it was love at first sight. We worked third shift processing blood samples for area doctor's offices.
Now twenty-eight years later we celebrated our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary and our oldest is getting ready to turn twenty and head back to college for his sophomore year and our baby has already started his junior year of high school. Wow!! time has really flown by.
There are so many emotions that follow dropping your child off at college; dread, excitement, sadness, love, fear, and hope. I think dread and fear sort of go hand in hand. You dread the thought of leaving them and you have a lot of fear about whether they will make it on their own or not. Excitement comes for all of the new experiences that are waiting for them. Sadness from them growing up and not being the little boys that you brought home from the hospital and held and watched as they slept. I think hope and love go hand and hand. You have so much hope for their future and the overwhelming love that you feel believing that you have raised a good kid that is now a good person.
Here is to the new school year, prayers for all the kiddos heading off to school and the parents coping with the new adventures. Stay tuned for updates from MA. . .
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