Tuesday, August 14, 2007

New Adventures

Today we traveled with a loaded vehicle to the college town where Puff will be starting school. Between all the advice and all the anticipation, the day also brought lots of memories back for The Brain and I. It was fun to remember college and fun and being younger. I so wish for those memories - for her and for all my children.

Tomorrow we will help her carry her things to her dorm room in the early morning, take her to buy a school t-shirt, and then we'll wave goodbye. And she'll be in this tiny town for the next 3 months completely on her own.
(Well, as completely on her own as she can be while using her unlimited cell phone minutes, text messaging, video messaging, and email.)

She's been looking forward to this day for a long time. Heck, it's no secret that she's wanted to be on her own since she was 9 years old. And there have been days since she was 9 years old, that she almost got her wish.

But we both stuck it out, and here we are.

And incidentally- the whole plan almost ground to a halt when we drove up to the only department store in town and it looked like this:




Fortunately, after reviving ourselves from the cardiac arrest, and a quick internet search, we found the new Walmart location:

So all is again right with the world, and tomorrow she begins a new adventure.

And so do I.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Best wishes to all of in as you begin a new phase in life!

Heather said...

OH the fun times of leaving for college. I still remember everything about that day!!

Vern said...

You know what they say, where there's a Wal Mart there's a way! Good luck to all of you.

goddessdivine said...

Judging by your picture you don't look old enough to be sending kids off to college.

Best of luck!

Randi said...

Thanks for the good wishes, everyone!
Kristen, sometime I'll find a better picture where you can clearly see all my wrinkles. HAHA...