Comments on: College Countdown

By: Kelli (Pearson) Ogboke

Kelli (Pearson) Ogboke — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:43:12 +0000

Wow! I cannot believe that Stevie is headed to college! I often think about you and your family and absolutely love reading your awesome posts! Lots of love to you and the family!

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:23:03 +0000

Amen!! Pride and heartbreak all wrapped in one. Go Noles!

By: Gigi

Gigi — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:06:06 +0000

The wonder and awe of your child’s birth, returns in a flurry; a swelling tickle in your throat, a welling dam behind your eyes, the prickling of your limbs and lastly, the swell and drop of your heart. If you’re lucky, you get to feel that a couple times. It’s overwhelming, thrilling and heartbreaking all at once. Watching a child arrive and letting him go to become the man he was meant to be is painful. But in the best way.

Hugs and kisses to the lucky ones. PI can see you from my pier, over here, by the way.

Rumplestiltskin, are you wearing black socks to mow the lawn again?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:22:04 +0000

Crying!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:59:15 +0000

At the one month mark, you were on the money, literally, for girls! We leave in four days and there is still shopping to be done! I was good until I go to the part about the night before….still crying!

By: rumplestiltsken

rumplestiltsken — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:05:58 +0000

that is a beautiful column!

By: rumplestiltsken

rumplestiltsken — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:03:08 +0000

So sad, so much left unsaid, so much left undone, my beautiful child, so much love, so much pride, so much happiness, it’s just too much to contain. Cry, laugh, hug, pray, hug again and thank the Lord for this child! Take care of yourself and enjoy everything, Stevie, we love you.

By: Aunt Sister Lynn

Aunt Sister Lynn — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:22:31 +0000

The hardest thing I ever had to do was to kiss Mikey goodbye and away drive away from Gettysburg College. It was also a moment of realization that this is the source of one of the greatest joys in life, to see my son becoming who he was created to be and to have been graced to have witnessed every minute.

Congratulations and good luck Stevie.

I love you,
Love,
You favorite aunt

By: Tori

Tori — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:39:22 +0000

I’m reading this at my work desk this morning, and choking back the tears.
So much love to our SubD family, and much luck to that boy who can’t possibly be going to college already. Where have all the years gone??