Thinking about home

I had always thought that one of the hardest parts of college would be having to go away from home and leaving everyone behind, but I figured I would miss my parents a lot and thought that it would be hard to live without having my parents there at every second. Saint Mike's, however, made that transition easier than I thought it would be. Everyone makes me feel at home, and though you realize you have a lot more freedoms, you don't necessarily have to act on them. Anyways, when always thinking about how much I would miss home, I figured I could call my parents or text them or find a way to talk to them all the time. I do call them several times a week normally and I text them almost everyday, just to check in and see how everyone is doing and tell them how much I miss them and love them (they are my parents after all). Anyway, it seemed as if it was going well and it still is, but then I realized that it's not just me that I have to worry about, it's also my parents missing me. They always bragged about having an "empty nest" and said that they wanted to move everything of mine and throw everything out and clean our room once we left. Each time I talked to my parents, they seemed to be handling us being gone well, and I think they are. However, I received a bag of items I left at home today. Some of our family friends were visiting their son up here and since they live down the road from us, they agreed to bring up some of our items. In the bag, there were our baseball gloves, electric razors, CDs, and there was a mini notepad. I figured the notepad must have just been left there from the school year, but once I got back to my room and unpacked the backpack, I saw a note that said "Hi guys! www.jrgaudion.blogspot.com -Dad". Once I saw this, I thought what could this possibly be? So I immediately checked out what it was that my dad wanted me to see. He has been writing a blog as well saying how difficult it has been for him trying to do everything he thought he would once he had the open nest. At the bottom of each post, he writes "I miss them," and that makes me think about how much I miss him too. I will be going home for a weekend in October for homecoming at my high school, but I realized it's not only me who is missing people. It's important to keep in contact with your parents when you go off to college because like someone once told me, it's not just you who is moving on with your life, when your parents have you, they agree to someday let go and let you go on and do your own thing and go off to college, and it's a big sacrifice to them. So I figured I would write this post as a thank you to my parents and to end it as though my dad ends his.

I miss them.

-@Timnotscott

#Twinning

note: if you would like to read my dad's blog, here is the link --> http://www.jrgaudion.blogspot.com/