Oh boy, we sent our first kid off to College! We honored her the best way we could by taking the whole family out to eat. Lorien got to pick the place, Pho, we all ate up and enjoyed each other's company.
Wyatt played one last practical joke by dunking Lorien's face in her pho as she was bent over taking a sip of broth directly from the bowl. Well played!
Poor Adell, just got over crying every day because Saide and the other Andersons moved to Utah and has started crying every day because Lorien is moving to Southern California. My baby girl does not do well with separation.
Wyatt woke Lorien up good and early as he was leaving for seminary to get his goodbye in. She deserved one last super early wake-up.
Colter and Adell got their hugs in before school. Somehow I missed getting a picture of Clare saying her goodbyes but I know she did.
As we were leaving home one thing after another kept happening that seemed to indicate that Danville did not want to let Lorien go! The day was gray and foggy. The traffic was worse than usual. And finally, as we pulled up to the airport we got an alert saying our flight had been canceled and we'd been put on a much later flight! It was wild! Thankfully, Will was able to get us on another flight into Burbank so we would get into LA close to the right time. We were already running late for our first flight and the new one left was scheduled to depart 15 minutes earlier! We had to hustle to get all 5 bags checked and up to our gate in time!
With that harried start to our trip, we spent the rest of the day running from one place to the other trying to get Lorien outfitted for school. I know now why parents take a weekend or at least one overnight to get their kids settled.
With so much hurry up going on, I didn't have a lot of time to feel sad or notice if anyone else was feeling sad. Mostly I was just frantic...until Will and I were alone in the grocery store trying to stock up on some essentials for Lorien while she unpacked in her room (we had dinner reservations and needed her empty suitcases to take back home with us). As I searched the rice section for medium grain rice (they didn't have any) I burst into hysterical tears realizing she wasn't going to eat! We still had to get the shopping done so I kept pushing the cart, sobbing and snotting all over the place, giving Will grocery items to grab through choked sobs. "She will probably eat some carrots...waaaaa!" It was ridiculous but I couldn't stop.
Still, we left her. All alone in the big city! I know she will be fine but I do wish we took more time to get her settled. We moved her in on Thursday the 22nd. Friday was open house for her and she called Will crying, "I can't get the bus to work!" Will had to help her (with google maps) get oriented, north-south-east-west, find the right line and go the right direction. She had a problem with her FASFA (we didn't fill it out in time) so she couldn't get her student ID. It was a bit of a disaster. Here's to growing up...
Clare got moved into Lorien's room as soon as she could. We needed to clean the carpet and the walls (see any picture of Lorien's room from previous posts, the first day of school for example, to see how bad it was) and we needed to paint the walls. We managed to get it all painted on Saturday. It looks great and Clare is so happy in her own room!
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