6 Days and Counting

Brennan leaves for college in 6 days. Despite the joy I feel for him, I am surprisingly sad that he is leaving. With him, I feel like it is truly the first flight from the proverbial nest. I don't expect him to come back home to live as a child, I expect that he will be fairly emancipated and on his way to becoming the adult God created him to be. Although all of parenting is in preparation for this, it doesn't make it less painful.....merely bittersweet.