I dropped my daughter off at her dorm today. She's a sophomore at the University of Illinois... Education Major... like her moms...and grandmoms... and several cousins, aunts, uncles...
This time last year, she was nervous and talkative and wondering if she had everything she needed to live away from home and if she'd be able to cut it at a big university 150 miles from home...
she did fine... great even...
so why when I dropped her off this year, she was calm and I was a wreck? She has a new roommate who she knew from last year. She pre ordered her books and I only spent $75 at walmart on the stuff she forgot...
yet, I sit here wondering if she'll be ok, if her sophomore year will be fruitful... I hope she enjoys the social aspect of her college experience... last year, she focused so on school...she missed a bit...
Maybe, I'm just feeling MY age...and watching her be what I was more than 30 years ago.. and doing it so much better than I did...
I did work hard to make her an independent, self reliant woman. I wanted that for her. I love her and want nothing but the best for her. Yet, she's my baby... and I'll miss her. So will her father and brother (who baked her blueberry muffins (her favorite) for her before she left.
Another school year... and to think...this is what I've been waiting for all her life... my life back...lol
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