May 17, 2010

Well, here we are. Reed and I are now down to only one child left at CWA. Today is not only Megan's very last day in high school but her last day as a student at CWA. Wow! Not that we aren't relishing the only one tuition there now, but the end of an era is here and it is sad. Not that we don't know that in addition to that tuition we are still looking at 2 college tuition's as well, but it is all different now. It is different good and it is different bad/sad. Starting tomorrow Megan will be working her internship at Pacific Grill and I know she will be loving that. Tennis practices stay the same, same time, same place, just different in that she will be driving to school to take them. If she makes it through Districts, than this is all repeated again next week. But after that, it's all over. Time to start a new regime doing other things, meeting new people and learning under unfamiliar professors. I know that Megan will thrive in her new surroundings and will eventually become a leader doing something she finds irresistible. That's just her.

I however have to find a way to adjust to my new role as a mom of one for a year (hoping Lauren returns for a bit next year). Cooking for 3, laundry for only 3, minus tiny little striped and colored footies and preparing 2 sets of care packages. But the things I will miss the most are:

Bussling around the kitchen in the mornings before school making Austin's lunch along side Megan making her peanut butter and jelly on the

whole wheat "whale" bread.

Watching the two of them drive off to school each morning in the white Audi.

Making their beds simultaneously and picking up their rooms so when they get home, all is good for a long night of homework. (I have always done this, opposite of my own up raising, because they are now so used to working in a picked up environment that it drives them nuts to have it messy). Guess I won that one!

Calling me at 5:30 asking what was for dinner on their way home. (Austin hoping for a free pass to go to Best Burgers)

Sitting down with the 4 of us each night for dinner and just talking about stuff. Laughing.

Reed and I doing tons of dishes while the two go up the stairs to study, knowing take out is always an option.

Also, I will miss going to soccer games, Megan borrowing my tennis skirts, using my hair dryer, watching DVR in my bed, baking many times a week ( for school), needing chocolate chips, giving me her grocery list, sitting in her bed with her computer on her lap, ice water, taking my shaving cream, shopping in my closet, making Austin's French toast on the weekends and just being the best helper any one could ever ask for! I could go on forever but I'm not. I just wanted to list of a few of my favorite things that I will miss after today, but I know that there are so many favorite things that I will be doing soon that I just don't know what they are yet.

What a special day this is. Time to go frost her favorite yellow cake with my special chocolate frosting that she loves. Oh....the yellow cake.... xxx-ooo

(the picture above was taken because ironically, Austin, was wearing the exact same orange Nike shirt today (Megan's last day of HS) as he did on their first day in September. Funny.