Check that Box
Countdown to graduation and a new kitchen!
I just ordered appliances for the new kitchen! check! As many times as I’ve made large purchases for my clients, this is the first time I have ever ordered an entire kitchen in one fell swoop for my own space. I knew what I planned to order years ago but I was still reading details and debating the color right up to the secure checkout. I was really not kidding about going from edge of hoarding - cacophony of color -toddler friendly back to elegant mid century glam.
Since I last wrote about this process of winding down a life in one place and migrating to a new (old) place while seeing our son graduate and go to college, I am becoming more secure as I see the fruits born of all the tee-ing up that I did last year that family did not understand. My LORD I think the worst argument my sweet husband and I have ever had was on the way home from our young man sitting for the ACT. (check!) I have a lot of mixed emotions about how much I’m helping him in contrast to the level of help I got at that time. All I know is that my Gen X version of parenting was being part of the process that I remember tripped me up, but getting a teenager to understand the deadlines I missed as a freshman was not easy. To be clear, no parents I knew back in college were involved on the level that we are now. We have Facebook parents groups now to guide one another. I have to say that worrying about what dorm choice my son would have was at a likely unhealthy pitch. Now that we know where my senior / freshman’s university (check!) and housing (checkcheckcheck!) will be, I am so relaxed that now I can go prep the candy buffet I’m assembling for the grad party coming up shortly. Wish me luck!
