tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449503.post4831362598232657741..comments2024-03-22T03:35:27.752-04:00Comments on Written Inc.: Leaving the nestcarmilevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00360045114379957605noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449503.post-33673131077349660282011-06-18T12:19:32.141-04:002011-06-18T12:19:32.141-04:00These first short excursions are as much a growing...These first short excursions are as much a growing experience for the parents as the child. They're necessary, so we can prepare. Having had two of mine go away to college, I'm thankful for the overnight trips and sleepover camps that eased me in to having their rooms undisturbed for weeks at a time. It's the natural order of things, but it makes me want to stop the clock all the more.sunflowerkat https://www.blogger.com/profile/11643564072168293568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449503.post-11336633345090160442011-06-16T01:50:46.848-04:002011-06-16T01:50:46.848-04:00First trip away from home? I was about ten and fle...First trip away from home? I was about ten and flew with my twelve year old brother to visit an aunt and uncle in another city.<br />On the plane the air hostess wanted to escort us to the terminal, and we wanted to manage by ourselves (our aunt and uncle would be waiting at the gate) so, as we had spotted a close friend of my parents' on the same flight we told the air hostess we would go with the family friend and we would be fine. Then we ignored the friend and made our own way to our waiting relatives!<br />I don't think the airlines these days would have let us, too worried about what might go wrong and about liability, I imagine.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236329216260906624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449503.post-86528403606127454312011-06-15T23:38:20.401-04:002011-06-15T23:38:20.401-04:00I cannot wait for her to come home. After you, she...I cannot wait for her to come home. After you, she is my best friend and I have I missed her like crazy.<br /><br />I know she has had an amazing experience but I have never gone 24 hours without hearing her voice, let alone 5 days.<br /><br />In truth these last few days have gone by even quicker than I thought they would. I can imagine the for Dahlia and her classmates it just zipped by.<br /><br />I can't wait to hear about everything and hug that young woman. I know that this is her first of many experiences as she spreads her wings.<br /><br />Have a safe trip Monkey-Girl!<br /><br />xoxoMorahMommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12459319126426867558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449503.post-73400301215520410082011-06-15T08:28:01.424-04:002011-06-15T08:28:01.424-04:00Welcome to my world!Welcome to my world!cyberabbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028157930362144652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449503.post-78820702156998622192011-06-15T07:52:11.495-04:002011-06-15T07:52:11.495-04:00What a wonderful experience for your daughter - an...What a wonderful experience for your daughter - and, I daresay, for you as well. She gets to be away from home for the first time, in a city that is very exciting and beautiful. And you get to give her those wings parents are given for their kids (but we aren't told we have those in our bag till way after those babies are born).<br /><br />Last year, Sam went away for the first time as well; he'd slept away from home but never out of town. He went to Pennsylvania for a week's hockey camp experience, and left the morning of my birthday. I cried (yeah, I cried) after he left, missing him all day, and then settled into the same quiet-house unease that you described. Our dog also missed him, and even his big brother was out of sorts for a bit.<br /><br />Sam called home that night, and again the next day (until the parents who had carpooled him down dropped off the kids at the camp and headed back to Montreal). I didn't hear from him again till 4 days later, but I felt like my mom, whose excited voice I could suddenly remember hearing when my brother (the Traveler in our family) would call home on any one of his numerous sojourns away from home.<br /><br />Sam's homecoming, a week later, was as I suspect Dahlia's will be tomorrow...the anticipation of her arrival will be palpable, she'll seem taller and more mature in every way, she may or may not want to spill every detail right away, and the next morning when she is back in her own bed upon awakening, you'll breathe just a little easier.<br /><br />These moments are the watershed ones for everyone involved...and you've written it to perfection. As always! Thanks, Carmi!lissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05505435869876658799noreply@blogger.com