We're packing the car with all Jessica's stuffs for her new dorm room and college experience

:woot

I've had kids in my life/home for 25ish years and this is our last to LEAVE US

I can't wait for mine to leave tho.

Vendetta1 said:

I can't wait for mine to leave tho.

Thanx

I now many that feel that way too

It's all good !

I still remember my girls first day at Kindi....

They sure do grow up fast

so u better have another....

I think your first reaction will be sadness to see her go, then happiness for the freedom, then sadness that you start to miss her, then happiness that you realize that life actually goes on anyway and she's doing well on her own. So it'll probably be pretty emotionally turbulent for a while.

chocolatehandles said:

I still remember my girls first day at Kindi....

They sure do grow up fast

so u better have another....

I'm the grandma of 6 ( so far ! ) ~ grands will do !

retina said:

I think your first reaction will be sadness to see her go, then happiness for the freedom, then sadness that you start to miss her, then happiness that you realize that life actually goes on anyway and she's doing well on her own. So it'll probably be pretty emotionally turbulent for a while.

so true !

Mach said:

retina said:

I think your first reaction will be sadness to see her go, then happiness for the freedom, then sadness that you start to miss her, then happiness that you realize that life actually goes on anyway and she's doing well on her own. So it'll probably be pretty emotionally turbulent for a while.

so true !

Sorry, I forgot the hug. lol

retina said:

Mach said:

so true !

Sorry, I forgot the hug. lol

Thanx !

We just bought this from johnart as a sgoing away gift

she loves art and TREES !!

we still got a few years...

RenHoek said:

we still got a few years...

Enjoy every moment

Wow... I am raising all three of mine by myself. I can't imaging my home without them.

It sounds like you guys had so much fun with them, they remember and will come visit often.They will miss you as much as you miss them.

You actually made me start freggin tearing up

Mach said:

We're packing the car with all Jessica's stuffs for her new dorm room and college experience

:woot

I've had kids in my life/home for 25ish years and this is our last to LEAVE US

Big

HUGE

Mama Bear

Vendetta1 said:

I can't wait for mine to leave tho.

you need to stop it. but when they leave well have to have a party.

Mach said:

We're packing the car with all Jessica's stuffs for her new dorm room and college experience

:woot

I've had kids in my life/home for 25ish years and this is our last to LEAVE US

What an exciting time for her.

Passing through and wanted to give you a You must be very proud Mach.

Oh sweetheart.

to y'all!!!

think positively! You and your husband can relive your childless days and become reacquainted

OMAGOODNESS !!! The last one to go already???

Okay, this is something fun you that two can do: put together a cd or computer playlist of 10 songs you both really like from all eras of Jess's life. Then you can both listen to it when you think about each other. It really makes for good mush moments, kinda an AT&T/General Foods International Coffee commercial

Mach said:

We're packing the car with all Jessica's stuffs for her new dorm room and college experience

:woot

I've had kids in my life/home for 25ish years and this is our last to LEAVE US

Awwww! Congrats!

Im sure all the seeds of good wisdom, judgement and character that you planted in your daughter will bear delicious fruit.

Now you guys can sit back and watch the seeds grow.

The lyrics of Jackson Browne's "For a Dancer" seem appropriate...

FOR A DANCER Lyrics
Artist(Band):Jackson Browne

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know

and do lots of naked stuff around the house

[Edited 8/26/10 8:19am]

Mach is feeling emotionally and will return with comments at a later time

some pix

http://www.facebook.com/p...1283994602

Congrats!

In exactly one year, I will be packing up my oldest daughter for her journey. I have been through this once before, with my son, and that was bad enough. But I am a mess just thinking about my Andrea away from home.