Here are the 10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Kids Left for College

Are your kids leaving for college soon? Here are 10 things we wish we’d known…

1. For the first couple of months after “drop off” don’t do anything.

Don’t make a ton of plans, or big decisions, or commit to anything. The lead-up to helping your youngest move into their new digs is exhausting – physically and emotionally. I thought I’d want to jump into a million things to distract me from the emptiness of our home but I realized that I was just tired, spent, exhausted, wiped out.

I felt like...