I am childless for more than a week! My eldest moved out two years ago May 1st; my "baby" left for Europe for Spring break with his German teacher and a few other high school kids. What an adventure.
This has been a hard couple of weeks. My son challenges me to the point of thanking God daily for chardonnay. Yikes! He's so darned cute, but what a sassy, back-talking, argumentative beast these days. Between fighting to help him learn how to write a decent paper for school (because the teachers just don't DO that any longer) and getting him ready for this trip, I'm utterly exhausted.
They're off! The flight left Los Angeles so that they'll arrive in Frankfurt at 2 a.m. our time. Ouch! They will just keep on going and having fun. They're kids. Ooh, but there is the German teacher and the other dad that went. They'll be crying by dinner time.
I've spent the afternoon calling friends and my daughter. How liberating to have no one to fuss at me for more than a week. I know that tomorrow I'll be back to fretting - is he going to lose his wallet? Will he forget to call me? Will his phone work properly? Will his friend (whom I bribed with $20) take pictures of my son with my son's camera so I have pictures of my son???? Today I'm OK. Am I a wicked mother for doing the "happy dance of ten days of no arguing?!?" I can live with it ;-)
