<p>Kathie - thanks for your post. I admire you for enduring the separation of TWO going off to college at the same time! Even tho’ I thought I was prepared for sending our first off to USNA, I was an emotional wreck all summer - and most of the first year. I’m still not over the feeling that “my best friend moved away”. I can STILL tear up if I dwell on it too much, but I try to focus on the fact that he is where he wants to be & so I wouldn’t want it any other way. (All my husband’s deployments never did break me from tearing up at “goodbyes” - I’m terrible at them! Guess that isn’t going to change, but boy-oh-boy are our reunions ever SWEET!).</p>
<p>So…kudos to you! Don’t know what I’d do if I ever had to say goodbye to TWO at once. I think I’d just turn into one big puddle!</p>
<p>(Not quite what you expected from this “military wife”, is it? haha!).</p>
<p>Hey, nobody says you have to LIKE the goodbyes - you just have to accept them as part of the military life.</p>
<p>On the bright side, if you don’t say goodbye, then you don’t get those joyful homecomings (hopefully!).</p>