We got up early Sunday morning to take our sweet girl to school as her class is off to Sea Camp down in the Keys for a bit of marine science and all sorts of adolescent horseplay. We were forbidden from signing up as chaperones this time. She won't be home until Wed. night. So the house is very quiet and I got more work done today than I have in weeks and the GITB and and I actually have had a few meaningful conversations and went out for dinner at 8:00 p.m.!!! and had cocktails and ADULT conversation. It all feels so weird. I am not ready for her to leave for college. I realize that this won't happen for five years. But it's already started in a way. And I'm not ready. But she is.