I'm taking my baby to college tomorrow.

[KMOD]

The youngest of my three.

She's excited, and I'm excited for her.

Yet it's still so bittersweet.

Where did the time go?

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[panader0]

1. Both of my daughters are done with college,

both sons in the Coast Guard. I can remember when they all could fit in the bathtub together.

[KMOD]

2. Those were the days.

They just don't stay little for very long. But yes, the bathtub days. So much fun, so cute. They would play in the tub 'til the water turned cold.

[uppityperson]

3. Congratulations and good luck. I had to pull into the parking lot a block away to join the other

crying parents. Day by day it takes so long, but suddenly where did the time go?

[KMOD]

7. Thanks, UP

I wore sunglasses, ... they didn't help hide my tears.

[steve2470]

4. sis, best wishes to you and your daughter! :) nt

[KMOD]

8. Thank you, Steve

[Phentex]

5. It was one of the worst feeling I ever had...

WHY did we have them if one day we were just gonna have to unleash them to the world just. like. that?

I even cried one day when I saw fingerprints on the door frame where he used to hang (and it drove me crazy). Now I won't wipe them away.

But the visits and summers and text messages make it bearable. Plus, they are having the time of their lives so I gotta be happy about that.

Still.

[KMOD]

9. Thanks, Phentex

[Ptah]

6. When did she get to be a beauty, When did he grow to be so tall?

[KMOD]

10. Now I'm crying again.

Beautiful song, Ptah.

[Ptah]

11. Those are my kids, in their thirties now.

[KMOD]

12. They are beautiful!

Good job, Dad!

[3catwoman3]

13. We have 2 sons, now 26 and 23.

As the last year of high school approached for our older one, I remember hearing lots of parents saying they couldn't wait until their kids left for college. I did not feel that way at all. When we took son #1 to his school, which was only 90 miles away, I told my husband that I thought I had done rather well to cry only half the way home.

When they were little, there were individual days that felt as if they would never end (especially in the dead of winter in the Chicago area with a husband who was an airline pilot and gone a lot, and no grandparents nearby and too damn cold to go outside), but overall, the time flew by.

[lindysalsagal]

14. Bring tissues, turn off your brain.

Nothing else works.

Then, fight that voice in your head all the way home that screams every few minutes: "Go back! You left her there! You forgot her! Turn the car around!"

It stops in a few years.