Last year, you all indulged me for months and I was very grateful. You know what I am talking about. Those of you who listened to me obsess about sending my oldest off to college for the first time deserved a special thank you.

I thought I would reflect upon where I sit a year later – oddly, in the same place. As we get ready to pack the car and take our daughter up to school to start her second year, I find myself in the same place I was a year ago. Well, perhaps not exactly the same place. The shopping and packing frenzy has had no stress this year and that has been a gift.

But this feeling that a part of me is about to be surgically removed is just exactly as it was last year. Yes, I know it is all fine and it will be a great school year and all of those good things. That said, I am caught by surprise by this feeling reminiscent of a year ago. I thought for sure I had survived and it would not return. I was very very wrong.

Wishing all of our returning students a wonderful school year and all of their parents the strength of their emotions over the next week as they all return to school.

PS, sending our children off to school seems to be the blog theme for the week. Seriously, I did not read Rona’s blog before writing my own!