Just checking in to see how y’all doing right now.\u00a0 Parents, I’m checking on you to see how you’re doing after dropping off your kids for the first time – either kindergarten or daycare, or college or university.\u00a0 How are you holding up?\u00a0 You doing okay?\u00a0 I know those firsts are TOUGH. And we are never ready, no matter what we believe or tell ourselves.\u00a0 Letting go of our kids is HARD.\u00a0 I haven’t had to make the college or university drop off yet.\u00a0 My kids are still living at home – but it’s looming.\u00a0 Because next year both my girls might leave the nest at the same time.\u00a0 I’m mentally trying to prepare myself for that right now because I know it’s going to be hard.<\/p>\n
I am writing this from my home office – where – for the first time in months – there is nothing but silence.\u00a0 No kids in the house.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Even the dog is asleep.\u00a0 Strange.<\/p>\n
My youngest is in her final year of high school with big plans to get away from home as soon as she’s done.\u00a0 GASP.\u00a0 You could at least pretend you don’t want to leave home.\u00a0 For your parents sake.\u00a0 My oldest daughter is starting at Lambton College but has plans to transfer to another school next year.\u00a0 Maybe if the cost of post secondary education wasn’t so freaking expensive – she’d already be gone.<\/p>\n
I see my kids go off to school today and I’m anxious for them.\u00a0 I feel it.\u00a0 The nervous energy.\u00a0 Every year is the same thing.\u00a0 I seem to pick up on their fears.\u00a0 It transports me back in time to when I was in school.\u00a0 Every year slightly terrifying.\u00a0 Wondering if you’d have friends in your class.\u00a0 Who would you talk to.\u00a0 Would you have to eat lunch alone?\u00a0 All the things.\u00a0 And every year I feel it when I see my kids getting ready to start another year, a new chapter.\u00a0 I try not to relay my nervousness onto them, but sometimes I can’t help it.<\/p>\n
It’s probably why I cleaned my house like a mad woman the past week.\u00a0 Even the silverware drawer got cleaned and organized.<\/p>\n