Four, Six, Eight Weeks and Counting?

 2/16/07

It’s incredible to me that not much more than one month from now we will begin to hear from schools. I deeply hope that the first response is a “yes,” from wherever. If “no’s” come in first I don’t know that I’ll be able to take the pressure. I don’t remember feeling anything like this anxiety when it came to my own college application experience. Maybe what I’m feeling is a result of too much “helicopter” parenting—trying to oversee too much of his life and forgetting that it is, in fact, his life. His life, his anxiety, not mine, right? Somehow this thought doesn’t calm me down. I guess I’ve been in hover mode so long I’ve forgotten how to land.