Today my oldest two left on a jet plane for San Diego for Papa and Gigi summer camp for two weeks, well – 12 days. You may all gasp with me… I let my babies get on a plane and fly to another state for two whole weeks. I can barely believe it myself. Yes, there are days that the prospect of shipping my children off to Kalamazoo sounds glorious but I would never actually do it… but then again I did today. My parents and I have talked about letting my kids go to visit them for a while and it was always a “Yeah sure, in the future” sort of conversation but last summer hubby and I decided that this would be the summer we would make that a reality for both my kids and my parents. The planning it out seemed to be okay with me. Up until about a week ago I was okay, then it hit me… my babies are going to be gone from me for the longest we have ever been apart. Needless to say I have been trying to put my big girl panties on but it seems that every time I try they get bunched and I can’t get them on! Today was a bitter sweet day, I felt the urge to snuggle them in tight all day. Of course big brother understood my need and was willing to oblige for a little but middle brother was being a little pill. Tonight I drove them to the airport and stayed with them until they headed down the bridge. I was holding it all together until as they were walking down the bridge middle brother looked back and said that he was going to miss my snuggles. Waterworks my dear friends, waterworks. Thankfully for my boys they closed the gate door behind them and they did not have to see their momma become a big puddle of tears. On their two-week Papa and Gigi summer camp there is much fun to be had… surfing, fishing, kayaking, swimming and boogie boarding. I know that my boys are going to have a blast and honestly that is part of what makes it so hard… they will be having a blast and I will not be there to see their faces and snap pictures of their expressions. Oh well, I guess that is what happens when you raise independent little men.
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