Real Life

So, school is in session. We have taken our last daughter to college, picked her back up to spend Labor Day with her, and Jeff brought her home this past weekend for Calvin's blessing. Now everyone is gone and I am truly home alone. With Jeff working in Park City my nest is really empty. And my new reality has begun.

I am going to miss this girl-singing in the shower when I wake up in the mornings, giggling uncontrollably as she tells me her exploits with friends ("Hedgehog Killer," anyone?,) setting the tables for family dinners every other Sunday, kneeling by her bed morning and night saying her prayers as I walk by her room, flopping on the couch with fat textbooks on her lap, slicing apples in the kitchen every evening, giving me "eterna-hugs," and just generally making my life happier.

Don't know what I would have done without this happy-little-surprise baby.

Love you, Maddie.