No One Tells You How Hard It Will Be To Drive Away From Drop Off Day

“So, has is sunk in yet…you know that I’m not there?” my eldest son asked after the first week of college classes, “Do you miss me?”

“Oh, honey, we miss you soooo much!” I answered immediately. “Leaving you at school that day was harder even than the first day I had to leave you at day care so many years ago!” I said, holding back my tears. “I knew you’d have to do everything on your own and it was so hard to say goodbye and walk off.”

A few weeks earlier, my husband and I, along with our you...