What Happens After You Drop Off Your Youngest Child at College

Two weeks ago, my youngest child sat in her high school gym wearing her overpriced, black nylon robe, and joined her classmates in that ritualized ceremony called high school graduation. And in two months, she will pack up way more belongings than she will need, and we will deposit her at her chosen college.

And my husband and I will come home alone for the first time in nearly 26 years.

I’ve been through this twice before with her older siblings, though both were vastly different experiences...