No idea why I wrote that long pointless thing about the books yesterday. Putting off the inevitable, I suppose.
K went back to school in DC today.
Last night we had Chinese food for dinner, all four of us sitting at the table together. This involves a lot of table and other re-arranging, since we very rarely do that. Funny thing, lately, I've been remembering things that I haven't thought of for years and years and years, just here and there. Just the other day, I remembered how when the kids were little, and the Hubs was newly vegan, we would have Chinese food for dinner every Saturday night, since it was something we could all eat together. Every single meal involved a spirited game of Geography. One year for Christmas, I stuffed map placemats into the girls' stockings, to facilitate things a little. It wasn't a Saturday night unless one of them dipped a fork or chopsticks into something and called out "Antarctica!" or the like.
So last night we ate together. Next time this happens will be in October, maybe. Oh wait, when R gets back from Wales, K is hoping to be studying abroad for a semester, maybe in Berlin. So that would be next Christmas-time that we're all together.
Freaking out here.
So this is what I did at lunch today: I went home so I could go with K to the UPS Store and ship two big boxes back to school for her, to arrive tomorrow. But I mostly went home so I could say goodbye to her before she left. We came back from the store, sat down at the table while she had a bagel and I wolfed down Chinese leftovers, and then I said to her, "I have to go back to work now" and started to cry.
You just never know. I didn't see it coming for a minute. I'm getting all misty just thinking about now as I write.
I couldn't take the afternoon off, so R drove her to the train. I went to the supermarket after school and got home with the bags just minutes before she came in.
One more week before she goes back. Too.
Oy.
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