My beautiful, talented daughter was accepted to Tulane University! She’s going to college. It’s cliché, but it really is hard to believe my baby girl will be off to college in nine short months. I distinctly remember her first day of kindergarten, a story I tell to anyone who will listen (or in this case read).
She was in the back seat, buckled into her car seat, with her backpack sitting next to me on the front passenger seat. I pulled up to the drop off point and simultaneously the passenger and back doors flew open. One pair of hands grabbed the backpack while another reached in, unbuckled Isabelle and lifted her out of the car. The first pair of hands strapped on her backpack, nearly bigger than she was, and she went running (running!) into school, backpack bouncing, without looking back. I choked up then and still choke up whenever I think about it.
Her independence, confidence and self-sufficiency continues to this day. I have no doubt she’s going to kill it at college!