How hard do you think it will when the college years hit?

[cleo29]

Obviously, you'll miss your kids, but do you think it will come with some excitement to be a bit more free?

[Deleted]

I think I'll be happy that dh and I will be living on our own, and happy that our kids are going to college. Lol

[game blouses]

I'll be a little sad but mostly excited. DH and I love our time together and would be so proud of our college student kids.

[Deleted]

It hurts my heart just to think about this. I will probably be a mess, but will get over it as long as he keeps in touch. And goes to a local college. lol.

[Deleted]

I will be really excited for him. I will be sad/nostalgic too. I''ll try not to let him see it too much.

I will VERY slowly become happy at having a little more freedom.

[cleo29]

I think I will be so happy that they are going to college and hopefully will finish, something I have not done, but I think H and I will enjoy not being tied to our kid's schedule and being alone. lol

[Deleted]

I already know I will be an embarrassing mother and cry when college/HS graduation happens to my two. Parenting is hard now, but I am going to treasure the 18 years I have with both of them.

Although saying that, we may actually be able to gasp! travel unhindered

[textbookcase]

I will be sad.

[eb777888]

Yes! I want to travel the world with H. I can't wait for it to be just us. I know I will be inconsolable for a long while but I'll get over it.

[KKD]

I think there will definitely be an adjustment for me when our last kid is off to college. I already get teary-eyed thinking about it, and while I know H and I will appreciate the freedom and quiet, I think I will feel more sad than anything, at least at first. This is, of course, assuming my kids don't turn into the kind of teenage hellbeasts that H and I once were. A mom can hope, right?

I could tell my mom had a hard time when my youngest sister left for college, but at the time H and I were living only five minutes away, so she took to bugging me instead. Now she's a few years removed from it and always complaining about how busy she is. Still, you can tell just how much she loves when my OOT brother/SIL and sister are home for visits. Meanwhile she gets the privilege of seeing me and my other sister (and babysitting our kids) every week. lol.

[pantsparty]

If you're anything like my parents, at least one child will stay there. FOREVER.

Yay!

[Deleted]

i think it will suck and also be awesome. the proportion of suckitude to awesomeness will depend on tons of things, i'm sure.

[2boys2danes]

My boys will leave for college at the same time since they are both in the same grade so that will be weird. I will be forlorn and lonely at first and then H will totally get me out of that mindset into the "WE"RE FREE"!!! mindset

I till totally be the mom who is first one on campus for parent weekends etc.

[2boys2danes]

My boys will leave for college at the same time since they are both in the same grade so that will be weird. I will be forlorn and lonely at first and then H will totally get me out of that mindset into the "WE"RE FREE"!!! mindset

I till totally be the mom who is first one on campus for parent weekends etc.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

I was actually thinking of this today. We have a lot of things that we have put on hold for the kids. I'm looking forward to doing those thing when they are gone. I will obviously miss them, but it will be fun to watch them become their own people and see what kind of impact they have on the world.

[hisno1girl]

You will come to love your free time faster and harder than you'll ever admit. It's glorious.

[Deleted]

My mom had my bedroom redone so she could have a second hobby/craft room the weekend I left for college.

So, my guess is my parents were ready for us kiddos to leave. I think H and I will be a little more sentimental than that.

[sillygoosegirl]

It never occurred to me that it would be anything other than awesome (well, aside from coming up for the money for it). Maybe this is why I don't have kids yet. Or maybe because I don't have kids yet?

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Apr 2, 2013 17:25:30 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Apr 2, 2013 17:18:37 GMT -5 @bettyhomewrecker33 said:

My mom had my bedroom redone so she could have a second hobby/craft room the weekend I left for college.

So, my guess is my parents were ready for us kiddos to leave. I think H and I will be a little more sentimental than that.

LOL. I'm the youngest. My mom sold our house when I left for college.

My parents did this too and moved to a different state. We all had to call "home" to ask for directions (this was before GPS was widespread).

[Ruby Gloom]

I am happy for my kids who are in college, and it is somewhat freeing.

BUT, three years into college I still cry when we drop her off or she heads out to go back, but I hold it in until she can't see me.

(I cried for half the day Monday)

[ProfessorArtNerd]

She will be going to my college, sooooo... We can CARPOOL!

[angelaa73]

We'll be old as fuck by the time our kids go to college. We might not even be aware they're gone

sent from my I crashed my car into a bridge. I don't care. I love it.

[moolarkey]

When the oldest left I really missed him but the youngest kept us so busy with stuff she was involved in that it helped. Then she went off to college and all that whirlwind just stopped. It did take adjustment.

Obviously DD was excited to go to college and it was beyond a fabulous experience for her. I moved her there, H moved our son back to college (same day move ins). I got her settled in, I took her to a mid-afternoon lunch and decided i would head home after that. I didn't go back in the dorm with her. I hugged her in the parking lot and left. I didn't cry then. DD went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. fabulous school, middle of nowhere in gorgeous little town. I'm following a mom out of town, we get about 3 miles out and she pulls over suddenly - she was crying.

DD called us every night for about the first 6 weeks to tell us about her day. I thought it was cause she felt sorry for us. I didn't know until after she graduated that she cried for a 1/2 hour after I left, she was terribly homesick (glad she was there but homesick) and she also watched the Barefoot Contessa cooking show because Ina Garten and I look a lot alike. After she graduated she told me all through college she would watch the BC show to get her "mom" fix. Whenever she missed me, she watched it.

You do start to fill up your time with other things but I still miss having kids in the house. I so miss the commotion of them and their friends in & out, I miss going to all their stuff at school. I really, really loved having kids in the house.

[eb777888]

Apr 2, 2013 18:18:59 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

We'll be old as fuck by the time our kids go to college. We might not even be aware they're gone

sent from my I crashed my car into a bridge. I don't care. I love it.

lol!!!

I'll be almost 50. My sister will barely be 40!