January 12, 2008 01:25 PM
Life Goes On...Finally
I feel like I have been in suspended animation for a while. Okay that is an exaggeration. But my family and I did spend the last two months of 2007 waiting to hear the news. The college news that is. And around Christmastime, we heard from three of the four universities my daughter had applied to, one of which is her top choice. She was accepted to all of them (still waiting to hear from one, but it's the last choice) and we can finally stop waiting and start planning.
So what now? It's new terrain for me, as my first-born leaves the nest (for nine months a year, anyway). I alternate between feeling proud of what she has accomplished and the woman she has become, to being a wreck because she's leaving (and leaving me at home with all males, by the way. Who will I shop and get manicures with now?).
