You're In the Right Place ~ part three

Junior year. More confidence. No tears. Nervous just like any new school year is for any age. But excited too. 

We were more confident this year too. What a difference it is between freshman year and junior year. 

Ha! Even the packing. We didn't do anything until the day before. Freshman year we packed all summer! 

Here she is the afternoon before moving in -- just starting to take things out of her closet. I folded. She organized into bags. We brought the bags downstairs and that was it. Easy! 

The night before she wanted a cozy dinner that we all love, so I had my homemade pizza sauce simmering all day and Scott made his famous pizza bread. We got our mind off of all of our 'back to school' swirling thoughts and watched a funny movie. 

Moving day! 

Anna has a single this year and we were shocked to find that it was still a double room. Even better was that it's an corner room so she has windows with bright sunshine streaming in on both sides. 

We brought everything up and got to work right away! 

Even Abigail! Can you spot her in the closet? She was organizing all of the supplies! 

Once we got all of the furniture arranged the way she wanted and hung a few tricky to hang things she wanted to do the rest over the next evening and day so we took her out to dinner in the city and had a wonderful meal!

Then back on campus - we walked to Cool Beans for a yummy chai tea for the drive home. 

Love this campus! 

Such a stunning campus! And I love the old buildings with ivy growing up them. 

Time for goodbyes. 

It's not 'nothing' junior year. Our whole house has to adjust it seems. There is a void and we miss her so much. I was actually looking forward to our own first day of school so that we could be distracted! 

"You're in the right place, you're in the right place" was what I whispered into Anna's ear on that first goodbye as a squeezed her tight. I believed it even though first year tears were streaming down my face and wanted her to believe it too. She knows it now, believes it now. And that is everything.  

Other posts you might like: 

You're In the Right Place 

You're In the Right Place ~ part two