The final hour before leaving home

fauxmaven
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:12:24 +0000

To bca and ctyankee-I am so thrilled by the artistry of your post on the thread I started !I started a new volunteer position working in the ER at a local hospital and it is such a great distraction to work with all the people there.The staff is very friendly,and grateful to have a volunteer,and I feel useful and needed.It’s not the same as being a mom,but feeling needed and helpful cheers my aching heart abit,D at pre-orientation called yesterday to say she already met her "new best friend’,a suite mate who has lived abroad,which appeals to all the trips my D has taken independently.This is a girl who announced that she wanted to go to sleepaway camp just like her big brothers at age 6!Agirl who had planned to go to college at St. Andrews in Scotland,if she hadn’t got into Harvard .A girl who plans to summer abroad on an organic farm,like she just got back from.Sometimes I think I did too good a job as a mom to create such a strong independent D.