AuburnChick's Adventures

…I will be home after taking Chicky to college…

and leaving her there.

Throughout the day, several routine things have reminded me of this fact…

• Walking down the hallway and seeing the stuff that she has been buying for the last three months…

She’s been moving these items out of her room…inching them ever closer to the garage door.

• Setting up the “About Me” bulletin board in my classroom…adding pictures of the family…

As I carefully arrange them…one by one, I am taken back to the exact moment when I snapped each one…

• • Chicky and Rooster – an Olan Mills photograph…1998…oh so sweet and best pals…
  • The “First Day of School” picture from last year…Rooster towered over Chicky by at least five inches…
  • The “Make a Crazy Face” picture of the entire family (Coupon Queen, Grand Pooba, Super Sis and her family) during Christmas…
  • An action shot of Chicky on the soccer field…
  • The lovely picture of Chicky all dolled up to walk across the football field as the Homecoming Soccer Candidate…
  • Chicky in her graduation attire.

• Receiving her text that is letting me know she is on her way home from work…her last day of work until she comes home for Christmas vacation.

• Filling up her daily pill container…making sure I haven’t left out any of the vitamins or allergy pills she has been mandated to take.

One week from today, my oldest baby will leave the nest.

Sure, she’ll return home every now and then, but things will never be the same.

One week from today, my Chicky will spread her wings and fly.

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