The Tub Parade
Woman in the Middle | June 12, 2015Today I participated in the Tub Parade. That is the day that parents drive to the university where their offspring have been studying their life away for nine months to pack up plastic tubs full of stuff to bring back home. Youngest daughter had big plastic tubs and so did all of her roommates. When I was carting stuff to the car I saw kids and parents all over toting empty plastic tubs into apartments and full ones back out. It was a regular parade!
These last five years have been fun. While we missed Youngest when she was at school, she was only 35 minutes from home or 20 minutes from Hubby’s work. We would go have lunch with her. She would indulge my love of Home Goods and let me drag her there after lunch. We would check out the Farm Store on campus and all their fresh produce and plants. She would fill us in on all the happenings in her life as a college student and introduce us to new restaurants she had found in the area. It has been fun. It is weird and sad that it is over.
Don’t get me wrong, I am happy for Youngest that she has finished. Good for her! But I am nostalgic thinking back over the last five years. That was almost a tenth of my life! I am also getting all teary eyed about my little girl getting older. My, time does fly!
I came home and stress ate a piece of cheese cake and some BBQ potato chips. Then I called a bunch of friends and chatted about goings on around my city. Now I am going to go shopping. The three key things a woman under stress needs – junk food, friends, and new clothes!
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