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I described this latest go-round of it as being "like living the first day of Pre-K over & over, Groundhog Day style".
That came to mind again when you said "our family will never be the same again", 'cause that's pretty much how I feel about that first day of school period. Your lives -- the whole family -- is never really entirely your own after that one, there's always somebody else's priorities to have to juggle.
The college phase, that's kind of the same thing, but you have a lot less time to acclimate to it. It's off to start the semester, then Thanksgiving which is maybe a week long tease of normalcy & then they leave again, then Christmas & that's longer but you have to let go again, then summer & then it REALLY sucks when they leave. Lather, rinse, repeat.
But it feels like that same first day to me in a lot of ways.
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