My first-born child, this baby who was born on the day of this overshare, the same person who was a precocious toddler, an inquisitive and enthusiastic child, a smarter-than-you adolescent, and a fiercely brave teen…
…is going off to college.
I moved away to college in August of 1989. I remember being excited and scared. I remember the luggage my parents gave me for Christmas in preparation. Fast forward through 4 years of college, through soul-searching years of figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up, through meeting my husband and choosing to stay in California and make a family.
Then blink, and I discover I’m pregnant. I remember being excited and scared. Fast forward through all the years of parenting two kids and creating a life and a career and a home.
Then blink again, and that pregnancy became a whole person, with a whole life.
What magic is this?
I am excited and scared. How far into the future will we be, when I blink again?
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