Changing Times

How can an event make you so happy and so sad at the same time. Last weekend our only granddaughter graduated from Baylor University. We were so proud of her excellent grades, honors, beauty, morals and just the sweet young lady she has turned out to be. She is one of the fortunate who has a job waiting - with Unitrends in Boston, MA and she is excited to be moving there in just a few days. I was sad when I read that she "has a one-way ticket to Boston!" That sounds like she's never coming back home to Irving. Right now she thinks it's great to leave home, have her own apartment (in the same city where her boyfriend, Paul, lives), and be independent. We know that she will eventually realize that she misses the whole family she leaves behind - her mom and dad, brothers and even Goldie, the cat! Plus us - the grandparents in New Mexico - just 8 hours away from her old home in Irving. I remember when I left my job and family in Oklahoma, also at age 22, to marry the love of my life in Albuquerque, NM. Thought I'd never look back. That changed when, just a week later, Mothers Day rolled around. Tho Bob never knew it, I cried most of that weekend when I'd think of my family gathering to honor my mother without me for the first time in my life. I hope, tho, that Kathleen finds, just as I did, happiness, love, success, and many precious memories of the first 22 years of her life.