How did it get so late so soon?

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss

Tomorrow...we will load up "the combie" with a few treasures of boyhood, and a whole lot of anticipation, fresh new books and linens, and "stuff"...

and take our Landry to begin college life at the University of Tulsa.

We've done it before..in fact three times, but that doesn't mean it gets any easier.

Or keep this mom from fluttering around his dorm room, making the x-long hard slab mattress his most comfortable bed possible with down and new pillows and her "touch".

As if,... you can pour and store love into a dorm room makeover...

He'll know. We'll know. Its so right. But it still is hard. And I will hold back tears and snap pictures till our smiles hurt.

Thankful that he is only two hours away, and that there's a mighty lot of love 'tween us and we'll be there and he'll be back often...

and we will all get to share in his new experiences and friendships, and blessings.

And...while all of this is happnin', our Amy will be unloading her belongings into her novel, fun new little home in Louisville.

Our girl, with the most engaging smile ever, will find her fresh treasures too, with her masters degree underway, blossoming friendships, and the binding unity she will find with the new class of 300 also beginning their quest.

Life sure moves fast...enjoy the moment!!
















How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss

GOOD LUCK LANDRY. AND AMY. OUR ENORMOUS LOVE AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU!

and a few new pictures today...

a week ago tonight...

we had family gather,
and friends come alongside,
and we had a blast celebrating Landry's graduation! Enjoy with us!

lots to celebrate with graduation...

...but one of the best things happened in little increments,... over many years of study groups, and Frisbee games, Wii game parties, and mad rush lunches. Shared AP coursework and late night cramming , prom plans conspired together. The good stuff of friendship.

And somehow with guys, it is so much more straightforward and "out there" and easy. These friends of our Landry have been much like brothers to him (as if he needed more HA) Easy to like, smart, fun, we couldn't have asked for better.

These guys are a joy to have around our house, and I will miss them showin' up. In fact, I surely hope they still come round often, and entice Landry back for family weekends and long ultimate Frisbee games with his buds...

Their party was for them...but I think even more for their parents, especially we moms that bonded while watching our now grown young men celebrate a new phase together. All of us moms sorta wishing we could keep them around just a little longer...but knowing its time, and they have so much to give this world.

So, these next posts will be full of the happiness of celebrating Landry and his fun, life of the party self...with a kinder, gentler, part that will even hug his sisters when he's not driving them crazy and vice versa.

Happy Graduation 2010, Landry Parks...we couldn't love you more or be more proud.