College Move and Change

I have been super busy the past few days. We got our youngest daughter moved in to college on Thursday. The baby of the family. It is hard to believe that she old enough!!!! I am not the type of mom that takes their child to college, and then weeps the entire way home. I have never cried or been sad to see them off. If anything, I am SO EXCITED and SO PROUD. You need to understand, I was married at 18, had a mortgage payment and my firstborn at 19. I have never been on my own and I do not remember a time when I was free to worry only about myself. Seeing my girls go off to school makes me so excited for their futures and what the world has in store for them. Trust me, I have no regrets for the choices I have made. Everyone wants better for their children. College is one of those things.

Before pic of Taylor's dorm room.

Things are coming together.

Lots of pictures going up.

Not sure dad was going to let her go!

Not sure I could either!

It was a beautiful day on campus. Thankfully, she is only 3 hours away. She is attending Salisbury University on the eastern shore. Our oldest daughter graduated here, plus she are only 30 minutes from the beach!!

Time for us to leave. Her older sisters will be checking up on her frequently!! It is almost like Taylor has not one mother. but four. Older sisters have a way of doing that. I am blessed that they all love each other so much. It is nice that they all have each other.

Stopped at the gas station for some food to hold us over until we could stop for lunch. The apple was awesome and who does not love popchips?? 100 calories of goodness!

Bridges is located on Kent Island. It is a beautiful restaurant, but we enjoy sitting outside by the water. 

 Delicious appetizers.

White pizza. So so good but could not finish it all. John was happy to polish it off for me.

We did so much talking here today. How fast our girls have grown and what is next for us. No fall sports for me to rush out of work for. No back school night. No meet the teacher night. No carpools. No bus schedules, Things will be different for me for sure. No more kids in the public school system. We could sell the house. Downsize? I for one, will be picking up more hours at work. Yes, I feel much "change" in the air.

I painted my toenails blue just to prove to myself that I am still "cool" even though my youngest is now in college!! 

My husband took me out for a "frozen yogurt date!" Not sure if frozen yogurt is good pre running food, but I pretended it was.

My ankle continued to be sore, but was feeling better after 3 full days of rest. This morning, I met a few girls from my running group bright and early, 6:45 to head out for a ten mile run. I was nervous starting out and my ankle felt so bad, I almost returned to my car to just cry it out. I told my group that it was feeling really bad but I wanted to see "how far I could go." It was not pretty. 

I did it!! Ten miles was on my training program. I did have to walk at times (mostly the downhills) but I managed. Hopefully, I did not do anymore damage to my ankle. If I really thought it was worse I would have stopped. Tonight it feels sore but not terrible.  It was a beautiful morning run with cooler temps and that was awesome!!

My daughter and her husband had a wedding to attend tonight, so we got to babysit this little guy. Seriously, how cute it is???? We all fought over him the entire evening. What fun!!!

My Day in Pictures!

First things first. Today is my Wednesday weigh in.

Down 1 pound :) I always weigh in on Wed mornings but never this early!

We left the house at 5am! I knew John and Taylor wanted to stop for breakfast but was not sure where they would stop so I just grabbed a Clif bar  (once we were at the orientation they had some fruit and I snatched up a banana).

Sleeping beauty.

We arrived at Salisbury University just in time. It is almost 3 hours from our house. After a formal meeting with the incoming freshman and their parents, the students head off to take photos for their IDs, tours, math testing and selecting fall classes. Taylor is our youngest of 4 so this is not the first time we have done this! Our oldest graduated from SU so we are familiar with the campus. We had a few hours to kill before lunch. So this only left us one thing to do.....

Head to the beach!!! It was only about a 30 minute drive east to Ocean City. It was so beautiful I did not want to leave. We only spent 20 minutes before we headed back to the truck. So hard being responsible parents!!! We stopped and picked up some subs on the way back. John enjoys a sub shop called Red Door. The subs were huge!!

I think the sub must have weighed 3 pds! I only ate half. No way could I have eaten the entire thing.

We also enjoyed some Combos. I have not had them in a long time!!!

We got back to campus and met up with Taylor once again. She just picked up her student ID :) Then she was off for more meeting. John and I, being the great parents we are, took off once again!!

So happy to find a Starbucks right next door to the fishing store John wanted to go to!

Could not help myself. It was located right across from campus.

Orientation was a success! Time to head home. We had a great day and a long ride ahead. On the ride home we finished off the Combos and I had a few bites of my sub but it was soggy by this point:(

Once we got home, I made myself a tortilla pizza. Basically, it was a salad on a tortilla :)

This was on a dinner size plate. So yummy!!

I need to give a big thank you to skinnyrunner who posted a pic of me on her blog!! So exciting. I am currently having trouble with visitors trying to post comments to my posts. For whatever reason it will not let you!! If anyone knows how I can fix this problem please send me an email. Thanks!!