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We loaded up the car and drove him 15 minutes down the road \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The day before he said, “I am SO glad that I am going to Ohio State. \u00a0I would really miss you guys if I was going further away.” \u00a0Seriously one of the sweetest things that my non-touchy-feely oldest child has ever said.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. \u00a0I have had twinges of sadness for the past well year really. \u00a0I mean how does it go so fast? \u00a0SO. FREAKING. FAST.<\/p>\n

I remember rocking him as a baby reading Mothering Magazine<\/a>. \u00a0Someone had written a letter in that said she had been in the store the day before and her toddler was pitching a huge fit and a guy came up to her and said, “yesterday my daughter did the same thing. \u00a0Today she started her freshman year at Ohio State.” \u00a0I remember my eyes filling with tears. Andy was about to start grad school at Ohio State and I knew, I just knew\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>that this time with my new little guy was going to FLY.<\/p>\n

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OSU has an amazing move in system and it was very fast and efficient. \u00a0And as we got more and more into the day and I saw his excitement grow I felt mine growing as well.<\/p>\n

The tears that I thought would come stayed safely tucked away.<\/p>\n

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Don’t get me wrong. \u00a0This was Saturday. \u00a0When Monday rolled around and all the other kids wandered in at various times after school there for sure felt like something was missing. \u00a0And of course it was. \u00a0He was.<\/p>\n

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See that right there in his hand- that’s the real reason he chose Ohio State.<\/p>\n

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Do you want to know what’s kinda cool? \u00a0This dude was born in the hospital where he will now be studying Pre-Med.<\/p>\n

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We got to his dorm which I thought because it was an honors dorm it would be a little nicer that the others. \u00a0Um nope. \u00a0In fact I think it was worse! \u00a0No a\/c, small rooms, very old. \u00a0But exactly what a dorm is supposed to be.<\/p>\n

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Except for the fact that this day was incredibly hot and we were sweating like crazy getting his stuff unpacked. \u00a0We quickly headed to Target for more fans.<\/p>\n

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And there he goes. \u00a0Off to start a new chapter. \u00a0I can’t wait to see what his future holds!<\/p>\n

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And yeah, writing this made me a little teary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We loaded up the car and drove him 15 minutes down the road \ud83d\ude42 The day before he said, “I am SO glad that I am going to Ohio State. \u00a0I would really miss you guys if I was going further away.” \u00a0Seriously one of the sweetest things that my non-touchy-feely oldest child has ever said. I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. \u00a0I have had twinges of sadness for the past well year really. \u00a0I mean how does it go so fast? \u00a0SO. FREAKING. FAST. I remember rocking him as a baby reading Mothering Magazine. \u00a0Someone had written a letter in that said she had been in the store the day before and her toddler was pitching a huge fit and a guy came up to her and said, “yesterday my daughter did the same thing. \u00a0Today she started her freshman year at Ohio State.” \u00a0I remember my eyes filling with tears. Andy was about to start grad school at Ohio State and I knew, I just knew\u00a0that this time with my new little guy was going to FLY. OSU has an amazing move in system and it was very fast and efficient. \u00a0And as we got more and more into the day and I saw his excitement grow I felt mine growing as well. The tears that I thought would come stayed safely tucked away. Don’t get me wrong. \u00a0This was Saturday. \u00a0When Monday rolled around and all the other kids wandered in at various times after school there for sure felt like something was missing. \u00a0And of course it was. \u00a0He was. See that right there in his hand- that’s the real reason he chose Ohio State. Do you want to know what’s kinda cool? \u00a0This dude was born in the hospital where he will now be studying Pre-Med. We got to his dorm which I thought because it was an honors dorm it would be a little nicer that the others. \u00a0Um nope. \u00a0In fact I think it was worse! \u00a0No a\/c, small rooms, very old. \u00a0But exactly what a dorm is supposed to be. Except for the fact that this day was incredibly hot and we were sweating like crazy getting his stuff unpacked. \u00a0We quickly headed to Target for more fans. And there he goes. \u00a0Off to start a new chapter. \u00a0I can’t wait to see what his future holds! And yeah, writing this made me a little teary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[856,855,504],"class_list":["post-13795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-life","tag-college","tag-freshman","tag-ohio-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Q14A5171copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17408,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions\/17408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}