Tomorrow, we take Kristin for her last year of college. Looking back at this blog, I wrote quite a bit when she finished high school and went off to LU for the first time. It was hard. My heart almost broke. But three years later, it is a bit easier. I still miss her and I still dread taking her. But, knowing how much she loves it and what she will learn/see there, I am glad for her. The difference is...this is the LAST time....so the next step will be...leaving home for good. It may not be for another year or two...or it may be sooner...who knows...but the fact is, this chapter of her life is about done and finished. So, in a way, this will be the most difficult at all...because it is the the time that I was dreading back when this college "stuff" first started...it is almost the "end" of her time with us. Talk about hard.......
When we dropped her off for her freshman year, we finished packing and we sat in her dorm and just looked at each other. She was a bit unsure of herself and the roommate she knew from high school wasn't there yet. We encouraged her to go out and talk to some of her dormmates but she brushed us off, (in Kristin fashion) and kind of hung with us. It made it a little hard to leave her. We knew she would soon make friends and we were right, but as we drove away and she was standing in the doorway, about to go back upstairs to strangers, my heart pulled a little bit. I know this year, she will be anxious to see friends, to see Cary, to get back to her "normal" at the world she has created there. She will almost anxiously be ready to say goodbye to us so she can get back to the friends she missed all summer. Such a difference from when she was 18. But I wouldn't want it any other way. We will say good bye and get in our car and look back...she will be already turning towards others....but I guess that is the way life is...our kids move on and we look back.....we wonder where the time went and we sometimes wish we could go back and do things over or differently.
BUT, we will never be alone....lol. There's Korie...a whole other situation to ponder over. I am just happy to know that God has both my girls in His hands and I pray they both learn to love Him more and more. So...off to Liberty U one more time......
When we dropped her off for her freshman year, we finished packing and we sat in her dorm and just looked at each other. She was a bit unsure of herself and the roommate she knew from high school wasn't there yet. We encouraged her to go out and talk to some of her dormmates but she brushed us off, (in Kristin fashion) and kind of hung with us. It made it a little hard to leave her. We knew she would soon make friends and we were right, but as we drove away and she was standing in the doorway, about to go back upstairs to strangers, my heart pulled a little bit. I know this year, she will be anxious to see friends, to see Cary, to get back to her "normal" at the world she has created there. She will almost anxiously be ready to say goodbye to us so she can get back to the friends she missed all summer. Such a difference from when she was 18. But I wouldn't want it any other way. We will say good bye and get in our car and look back...she will be already turning towards others....but I guess that is the way life is...our kids move on and we look back.....we wonder where the time went and we sometimes wish we could go back and do things over or differently.
BUT, we will never be alone....lol. There's Korie...a whole other situation to ponder over. I am just happy to know that God has both my girls in His hands and I pray they both learn to love Him more and more. So...off to Liberty U one more time......
