Here. We. Go!

Well, after tonight, I will officially be an empty-nester.  We got everything moved into the dorm and will finish unpacking tomorrow.  I have one more night with the kiddo in the house, one more bedtime to tuck her in with our special routine (yes, I still do that), one more morning to go in and tell her it’s time to get up if she plans to take a shower.  It seems so strange because I don’t feel like I could possibly be old enough to have a college-aged kid.  Not that I don’t feel the physical aches and pains that mid-life inevitably brings, but everything intangible in me insists that it is still young and silly and rebellious.  At this rate, it won’t be too long before my daughter is older than I am!

All of her life, I have looked forward to watching her navigate the next stage of life, viewing each as a new adventure for me as well as for her, anxious to see the young woman she would one day become.  Now here we are - she is all grown up and I am steadily feeling the years creeping up on me, grabbing at an ankle here, a knee there - and I have no regrets.  Once again, I find myself looking forward to the next evolution in her life with anticipation, wondering what wonderful thing God has planned for her next and knowing that she will rise to any challenge set before her to achieve her goals and find that success truly does lie in doing something that you are passionate about, in doing something you love. 

As she embarks on her new adventure, I will be setting out on one of my own.  Soon, I will be writing every day; I will be pouring out whatever wells up inside of me, be it poetry or prose, fiction or fact.  Hopefully, this will be as interesting for anyone who reads it as I imagine it will be for me.  I hope to keep you entertained (even if it means making you squirm in your seat and think “who IS this girl I thought I knew?!”) while honing my skills and forming a daily-writing habit.  If nothing else, maybe it will at least serve as some slightly altered form of daily therapy that writing has afforded me so faithfully in the past.  Please do me the favor of holding me accountable to my commitment to daily put in writing what normally just floats away in the air.  If I know you are waiting, I am more likely to show up.

Thanks guys!