Child getting cold feet

bclintonk
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:50:36 +0000

DD submitted her first application yesterday. She’s been looking forward to college for at least 3 years and we’ve spent endless hours searching, visiting, discussing, analyzing, comparing, so we certainly knew this day was coming. Still it hit DW & me pretty hard last night—maybe especially hard because as homeschooling parents we had to put together her HS transcript, GC rec, Homeschooling Supplement, etc., which forced us to reflect on our entire 17 years with her and the reality that this is the last. She doesn’t have cold feet; not yet, anyway. But she was pretty sentimental, too, and seemed to want to linger just a bit longer than usual in the warmth of pre-bedtime family conversation.