[Speed Gibson,
Saturday August 18, 2007 at 5:26pm]
Transition
Our son went off to college today. The house is empty already. My wife knew this would be hard for her, as his older sister was a commuter student and has never been more than 20 minutes away by car. The boy is now at the University of Minnesota Morris, a little early to start football practice.
My wife sees the house as half empty, me half full, proud of him, happy for him, even a little envious of him. But then I think of doing 15-18 credit hours at my age, no, been there, done that. I'll just study hard at SCSU Scholars.
What will no doubt help is seeing him next weekend when we bring the rest of his stuff to his permanent dorm room, then the weekly football games. We don't expect him to start of course, but we're both eager to become avid Cougar fans until he does.
My wife sees the house as half empty, me half full, proud of him, happy for him, even a little envious of him. But then I think of doing 15-18 credit hours at my age, no, been there, done that. I'll just study hard at SCSU Scholars.
What will no doubt help is seeing him next weekend when we bring the rest of his stuff to his permanent dorm room, then the weekly football games. We don't expect him to start of course, but we're both eager to become avid Cougar fans until he does.