<p>I think it’s today, yeah.
The boy I raised from a lad,
Is going away.</p>
<p>He’s got a room in the dorm,
He’s got a room in the do-o-orm
He’s got a room in the dorm
Hes movin there! </p>
<p>He said that living at home
Would be bringin him down, yeah.
He would never mature
When we were around.</p>
<p>He’s got a room in the dorm,
He’s got a room in the do-o-orm
He’s got a room in the dorm
Hes movin there! </p>
<p>I don’t know why he’s ridin’ so high,
He ought to think twice, (he ought to think twice)
Wholl do his laundry.
Before he gets to saying goodbye,
He ought to think twice, (he ought to think twice)
Wholl do his laundry.</p>
<p>I think I’m gonna be sad,
I think it’s today yeah.
The boy I raised from a lad
Is going away, yeah.</p>
<p>He’s got a room in the dorm,
He’s got a room in the do-o-orm
He’s got a room in the dorm
Hes movin there! </p>
<p>My baby don’t care, my baby don’t care.
My baby don’t care, my baby don’t care.
My baby don’t care.</p>
<p>Well said! The Beatles have nothing on you. My sentiments exactly, except for the fact that I’m already sad (and excited for DS’s new adventure/s)! 3000 miles is a long way. What was I thinking being so supportive?</p>
<p>I sent my kid to boarding school 3000 miles away … at the age of almost 15 … very very hard … but she was happy. I kept telling myself it was for her … not for me … but my heart still aches when she returns to school. </p>
<p>Of course you’ll be sad. I’m rembering something I wrote to our son the first time he went to camp as a little boy: “It’s OK to miss the people you love; it goes along with loving them.” Like many things we teach our kids, sometimes we need to remind ourselves.</p>
<p>mhc48 - absolutely wonderful! I am always making up new words to songs - my kids hate it but I still do it!!</p>
<p>My D will be a sophomore in college and I just had one graduate in May. The hurt is there, but a little less each time you drop them off. Our baby has had some health problems in the past (much better now), so leaving her seemed especially difficult. And, maybe it’s hard because she is the baby. She goes to college away and has also spent half of the summer at an intensive language program half way across the country. We flew with her to help her get all her stuff there and when it was time for us to leave she was crying, I was crying, and my H was crying. As we got in the car he said, “Do you think we’ll ever be able to leave her without crying?”</p>
<p>I don’t know what exactly prompted my feelings or the song. When my first went away to school, it was an adventure, as much for me as for her. And maybe because, even though 5 hours away, it was still in the same state we live. I did actuallyy go up to visit once or twice a year when on business trips nearby.</p>
<p>But this is my son. Maybe it’s a different sort of connection. And he’ll be a 12 hour drive away (NY - Michigan). There’s no reason or excuse for me to go see him.</p>
<p>When it comes to my third and last, then I’ll really be sad. </p>
<p>Come to think of it, I’ll also be… 64. I guess that’ll be another song.</p>
<p>Just now, with S starting his last semester (he will graduate in December), I am going through all the empty nest feelings. He is home this summer doing a political internship and I know after he leaves for school, he will never be home again for such a long period of time—if he visits at all. In December he will start his career and he’s not going to waste vacation time coming to California from Washington, D.C. He and I have always been very close. He’s my baby–youngest of four kids. A few weeks ago we went shopping at Joseph Banks and he got the first business suit for his new life. By the way there are some great sales now!</p>
<p>I went thru hard time when my S left to college although I was working full time and going to school for my MBA. So when my D. left, I got involved with totally new hobby for me that occupies my time after work. It helped much more than I ever expected!! I also read that a new pet is helpful, would not be for me - not a pet person. These are couple of ideas.</p>
<p>MiamiDAP–I misread your post and read that you got involved with a totally new “hubby”!</p>
<p>My friend isn’t waiting until her rising D leaves home for college. She has started to get seriously involved with a service organization and is learning to speak Spanish right now while her D is just starting her senior year in high school.</p>
<p>That is funny! No, still keeping the old one!</p>
<p>That is awesome what your friend is doing! She is on a right track and her transition will be much easier. I actually also was thinking about foreign languages first, but in my case it did not go further than loading software on computer. I just got lucky to find something else. Good for her!</p>
<p>I am still laughing at your first comment - you made my day today! Have to tell my H.!</p>
<p>Wow! My last, of three, will be leaving in 3 weeks. “The Long and Winding Road (sorry)” for them has just begun. I’m happy for them, yet find myself tearful very often. Yes you will be sad, as I was with my first. But I got use to it, especially after I began to notice less work, more freedom. Same with second.
With my third, and last, I vacillate between extreme sadness and euphoria.</p>
<p>So the elder daughter, who was always raised to be an independent is now, 7 years after graduating from Chicago, married and living in London. So proud, and so sad. They visited last week and I cried for quite a while after dropping them at the airport.
The youngest is a rising high school senior - also an adventurer, and now in Beijing. A year from now she’ll be going somewhere … the house will be very empty. So very proud and trying not to be so very sad.</p>