My baby girl (who will be 20 in December) is leaving for college tomorrow. Is it possible to be the happiest mother on earth and the most depressed at the same time? She took a year off, when to school to learn the art of a nail tech. and has been working in a salon. Now she has decided that she would like to get more education and experience college life on her own. She is headed to Utah...about 6 hours away. I am so excited for her! I am so excited for me! Then it hits me that she will not be here when I wake up...she will not be annoying me with her "attitude" issues..she will not be leaving her stuff all over the house....her bathroom will not be a disgusting mess...her room will hopefully have a clean path to walk through. Buuutttttt.....I will miss her amazing sense of humor, the silly things we do to make each other laugh, her routine every night getting ready for bed, her bouncy hair, hearing her working out upstairs every morning (well, some mornings :) the way she reminds me of a bull in a china cabinet, watching the Kardashians together, our silly languages that no one understands but us, feeding her friends and hearing their laughter from the upstairs bathroom as they are doing spray tans in her shower at all hours of the night, texting her while she is upstairs and I am too lazy to walk up them to talk to her, coloring her hair then recoloring when she sees the result and freaks out, the way she looks in camo, how she loves God and her family, and has values that make a momma proud, the way she needs a push to try something new...then always loves the result and the way she snaps at me when I start crying because I miss her and love too much. That is my spicey little firecracker in a nutshell!!
Cheers Kirsten.....cherry sodas!!!!
