Sending My "Baby" to College Tomorrow

[Sherri]

Well, we have packed up the Budget truck, sweated till we're all completely gross, and now we will wait until morning and pull out bright and early for Murfreesboro, TN. I have very bittersweet feelings about all of this.

It will be nice to have a clean upstairs, and I can actually paint his room and get a new bedspread for the bed he left in there. There will not be anymore fixing muffins at midnight for a hungry boy, buying 3-4 boxes of cereal each shopping trip, listening to strange guitar music at all hours. Everyone left in my house, which is just me and Eddie, will actually be in bed before 11 PM most nights!!

On the other hand, I will miss having him come bounding downstairs asking for waffles or Velveeta & Shells, needing his laundry done at the last minute, his quirky and strange sense of humor and even his guitars (sometimes).

When we were packing up his room, we found all of his childhood things from all the different phases of his life. First there were Beanie Babies, then came the yo-yos, then the skateboards & tech-decks, and then all the music stuff. He has a bass, a keyboard, and about six guitars. Then there are the amps, the "cab" (whatever in the world that is), the "head", all the guitar stands, even a tambourine. As we waded through all his old stuff, we couldn't bear to part with any of it, so it's all packed up neatly in a closet waiting for him to someday take it all away, but not right now.

I just want to know that we have put everything in him that he will need for a future with God. So far, he's been a great kid, very non-conformist and untraditional, but a good kid. He's never given us any trouble at all. I just want to know that he'll find a good church and be faithful to God throughout college. How do you ever know? I just have to believe that we dedicated him to Jesus when he was a few weeks old - actually my brother Scott did it - and now I have to trust Jesus to hold him tightly.

Just the musings of a lonely Mom!