These posts are making me anxious. My d will be 900 miles from home.
And she’s my one and only :((
@ClubAcres - not boasting or anything, but mine will be abroad! 900 miles is nothing 
hugs @shoboemom !
@ClubAcres you are not alone. DS is our one and only as well. I don’t know how DH and I will deal with him being away.
Same thing here, @ClubAcres. Our D is our only one and will be going across the country. I’m very happy for her, but not looking forward to the empty nest. 
We can have an empty nest support group…
I bought a Ferrari with money I won from the lottery ticket my grandmother the Duchess left me.
I will also be an empty nester. My wife and I are looking forward to it
We will be down to one resident kid. He’s skittish of all the attention he knows will be headed his way.
D is not my one and only but she’s been the one and only in the house for the last 6 years. The empty nest will be an adjustment.
My child has DECIDED! The enrollment fee has been submitted! She will be going to Baldwin Wallace!
I would like a fruity cocktail and to get girl drink drunk, please.
The drinks are extra-fruity tonight, @Irishmomof2, and you can have as many as you like. Congratulations on the decision!!!
Yay, @irishmomof2! I will put an extra-nice umbrella in your coconut cup!
@ClubAcres, my daughter is also going 900 miles away! Are you driving her to college this fall or flying? It is far from home but I’m sure your daughter will be fine. (and so will you)
Congrats to all the recent deciders! @shoeboemom, I’m having these moments, too–like when I opened up the box with the graduation announcements the other day. And the fact that my d still can’t decide is making me second-guess our whole process. It makes me feel like we must have missed the perfect school out there (or that the one we couldn’t afford was the perfect school).
D is our only, so we will be empty nesters…which is weird, because isn’t that for old people? lol D tends to hang around the house with us a lot, and when I do something for ‘fun’, it tends to be D that I am with. That will be hard.
But I am excited for her for what’s to come, and opportunities…and very excited about the end of high school! I hope to hear that she is excited and happy once she’s in college, but know there will be times when she isn’t, and that will be hard, especially from a distance (even if it’s a fairly short distance).
There are parts of the empty nest that I am looking forward to, but it will be an adjustment.
Shoboemom, same same. It is definitely going to be an adjustment.
I do want to warn you of a phenomenon I’ve already experienced with my older girls. They’d call me and be completely overwrought and tearful over some issue. I’d be in knots because it would sound so serious and upsetting. The next time I’d talk to the upset girl, she’d have completely forgotten about whatever it was that had been so earthshatteringly awful. This happens in high school too but the distance in college amplifies the message. We were actually warned about this at the accepted student visit. Sometimes our children just need a safe place to vent and we are it. Generally it’s just venting and even as they are crying to us, they are already thinking of where they are going to eat that night. Too bad they didn’t warn me before I sent the first one off to school!
So the Spawn and I log onto the student portal for the admitted school so I can see when, exactly how & how much the deposit is as time is getting short. We go to the Help page because her page is not looking like the Help example and the buttons to click to pay aren’t popping up.
Why would the child possibly follow directions and go in to establish security questions, set & reset passwords like the directions explain after she was admittedly?
After 30 minutes of trying to read directions as the child just clicks thru pages and prompts without actually reading them, her admitted student folder now appears like the expand,e and we have a click and pay deposit page.
We will wait another day to see if anything comes of the wait list school and if no more info, click and pay tomorrow night.
I’m determined that Casa Threesdad won’t be last and Gilliagn can dance on the Lido Deck with an extra large frozen fruity drink.
@shoboemom… hugs to you. So many feelings are coming at us right now and I so feel my mood tied to my S’s. This time with them still home is going to go by so quickly. Enjoy your D being home! Hugs!
S18 has been gone all week competing in the International DECA competition. It has been quiet and strange and I miss him so much! But it has given me a small taste of what fall will be like with S15 gone. I know I will miss him so much, but I am SO excited to see what the next chapter brings for him.
@3girls3cats, I am worried about the phone calls and texts that the world is falling down and I need to fix it NOW!!! He is very much like that and very dramatic about it at times. I am going to need to take a breath and let it all work out or I will be a wreck!
My D is my gym buddy, and I’m really worried that when she goes to college, I’ll be too lazy to go to the gym by myself. THat’s my chief worry at the moment. LOL.