students heading back to school

binx
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:27:41 +0000

Had 14 here for Thanksgiving, and my older sister and my D just left this morning. All are gone now except my mom. My sister brought my Mom down from PA - Mom will stay till Christmas, when sis comes back to get her. Sister is taking D back to school on her way home. S1 left yesterday. S2 didn’t make it home - has a gig in Carnegie Hall this afternoon, and rehearsals all weekend.

After my sis and D left, Mom and I were having this same conversation, about having kids grow up and move away. My sis only lives a short distance from my Mom in PA, and she says she doesn’t know what she’d do if she wasn’t there. All 4 of us daughters stayed in state during college, so she didn’t have to cope quite as early as I did.

It makes me sad that none of my kids will ever be anything more than “visitors” again. Or if they are here longer, it won’t be considered a good thing! But like VeryHappy pointed out, it’s the way it’s supposed to be.

My mom told me once that she’d always considered airports exciting places - the point of departure for adventure and travel - until the first time she was left behind. And that’s a bit how I feel. My job now is to remain the point of reference.