REALISM

Some of us send our kids off to college after high school, or off to a different type of home life.

Some of us think that they will grow up.

Some of us think that they will experience the real world,  learn to take care of themselves.

Some of us think that there will not be any adverse influences on our kids. . . they have been raised well, taught the highs and lows, taught the good and bad, made aware of the fortunate and the not-so-furtunate.

AND, then again, some of us don't want to now anything that goes on in the daily lives of our college/away-from-home kids.

I'm one of those.

I know that we taught our kids the above things.  I still didn't want to know all the details of college/after high school life.  I still don't.

I wanted my kids to experience everything they needed to, while they could, while they didn't have to pay the mortgage - still hoping that they had the life lessons in place to make the right decisions when needed.

While cleaning daughter's room recently I ran across this note which she had kept from college days.

I understand why she kept it.  I would have too.  She had asked friends to check on her apartment and her cat (Luci) while she spent a weekend in Chicago.

And these friends were so responsible that they not only took care of the job at hand, they also let her know their shortcomings.

My thought, when I found this, honestly, was not about the  "we were high" part, but more about that I was glad that daughter had had loyal friends around her at the time, who cared about her, and they needed to let her know the details.

AND, I just thought it was funny!!!!!!