One flew out of the nest

My youngest son leaves for college today.  He will be caravanning up to Northwest Missouri State University with his best friend Ben and Ben’s parents in a couple of hours.  They were supposed to leave about 5:00 so I would be home before he left but Ben’s mom took the afternoon off so that they could leave early.  A good plan since it takes about 5-6 hours to drive up there from St. Louis but that meant that I didn’t get my hug this morning before I left for work.

They boy was up early enough but he and his girlfriend (yes, he now says she is his girlfriend) went out for breakfast at 5:30 before she had to be at school at 7:00.  So I had him meet me for lunch and I got my hug then.

That’s two out and two to go…. Sigh…. This parenting thing is hard.