students heading back to school

PackMom
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:44:55 +0000

It’s not hard to see that being in this place is not the same anymore. They are more and more removed from it. Their life is somewhere else now, bittersweet. They are doing everything we ever dreamed for them and yet we are left with an unspoken yearning that can’t be named.

When sadness takes over,I remind myself how full and exciting life was at their ages. I married after soph. yr. in college moving to a new home with a new husband and a life that didn’t include a lot of time for Mom’s “home” anymore. My mother,a widow, was heartbroken but handled it with such grace that I was seldom aware of her sorrow. She let me grow away (and that is what they do) without feeling her lonliness and longing. I’m trying hard to let my kids go/grow in the same way. It’s not easy. Thanks for commiserating.
Last day of exams is Dec. 17, not that I’ll be counting days :)