I'm Making It!

Well Morgan has been gone over a month and Paul soon to be a month. But I am making it! I have been busy working and going to Hattiesburg to see Mo. She is doing great!!!! She has danced at two games and it was great to watch. My mother went this past week and afterwards she said well I guess all those dance classes paid off. HAHA! We had a wonderful time. Morgan also rushed for a sorority. I went up for bid day and it was so exciting. She is a Delta Gamma now. I guess she is growing up, bittersweet. I asked her the other morning what time she got in the night before and she said I don't know sometime around midnight. I was like whatever, you do not have to sugarcoat it for me there's nothing I can do about what time you come in at night. She said well we didn't get in to after THREE because we went to some fraternity parties. I was thinking nevermind I don't want to know SUGARCOAT it please. HAHA Well she knows right from wrong and I all I can do is hope she remembers.  Paul is busy in Long Island too. He is working very long hours. I have been hanging out with our good friends Bud & Leigh Ann and their daughter Cailyn. We go eat together a couple times a week. Bud said since Coty and Paul has been gone he is turning into a SISSY, hanging with women all the time. Too funny!  I also had a first for me this past week. I started Zumba! I know me exercising what a joke. If you know me you know I don't really like to do anything that involves sweat.  I have been twice and actually have enjoyed it. Shout out to Melonie! I think Morgan has gotten over being homesick, but can I get over her being gone?   

1 Week Down

Well let me just say this past week has been one of the most emotional weeks I have had!  We followed Morgan to USM and spent the day getting her dorm together. By the way it is so cute!!!!! She had several meetings for the Dixie Darlings. A big shout out to all the help we had Coty, Christen, Leighton and Melonie. Morgan's roommate did not move in until 2 days later. So if you know Mo you know she does not like to stay alone! When we started to leave it was not pretty! We all cried. Guess who stayed in the dorm and spent the night in a twin bed? Yes you guessed it Paul and I! First of all  Paul snores terrible and shook the walls. The dorm beds are really high so every hour that Paul got up and went to the restroom he had to jump off the bed and hit the floor with a thud! It was quite a night. Leighton was in the bed with Morgan and cried off and on all night! We got up at 5 to get Leighton to school. WE all left crying again.  It was awful. Morgan had Dixie Darling camp all week from 8 in the morning to 9 at night. That night she called crying saying it was awful and she hated it at USM. She had to stay in the dorm alone that night crying and Paul and I were at home crying. She even had the whole Long family up and worried. She tried to get in touch with Coty who lives in an apartment in Hattiesburg but he did not answer the phone. SURPRISE!!!!!! I knew that I would be upset about her leaving and I can handle that, but I could not handle Morgan being upset about being there. Paul was ready to go pack her back up and bring her home. Her friend Amy (who she cheered with) is her roommate and she checked in Friday. Her other good friend Gavin checked in also. So Friday was a little better! With each day it got a little for her but not really for us. Classes started Wednesday and she loved it! She started posting pics and staying out late! HaHa She really likes the college life but Paul said it is about to kill him. Paul & I have been up there 3 times since the move. I know that sounds like a bit much but not really if you know me. We all went up last night to see a Dixie Darling performance. It was really good. Paul left this morning heading to work the hurricane claims on the east coast so I really am here with an empty nest! A friend of mine told me before long I would have a little dog carrying it around in a little purse. WHATEVER! If that happens I would have really CRACKED UP!

1 Day Left!

Well in just about 24 hours we will load the cars and head to Hattiesburg! I have been dreading this day for  a while now. I have been very emotional since Saturday. Our best friends son left for USM this weekend and that started this emotional roller coaster. I tried to explain to my husband Paul that I know she is only an hour and thirty minutes away, and I know she will come home often but when your only child leaves it hurts. Not only am I just crazy but my mother who lives next door is equally upset. I want Morgan to like USM and to do well but it still is going to take some time getting use to.  I told Paul we have to get us a hobby that does not involve eating!!!! If not we will be as big as a house!!!!!!

The past 18 years!

Somehow the past 18 years has flown by. One day I was changing diapers and the next watching Morgan graduate. As I think back I never even considered having another child. Paul always worked out of town and Morgan was involved in so many things that kept me busy. I worked off and on at various places. I ran the church daycare for years. Yea I know what you are thinking wrong job for me considering how much I love kids. LOL Right now I help Paul with our construction company, help my aunt with her cleaning business and work part time at a dance studio. No I don't teach dance, I work the desk.  Morgan has always been my hobby. Whatever Morgan was involved in, is what I did.  Believe me I have enjoyed everything, well maybe not the park cheerleading. LOL I hate to sweat. She has pretty much always done what I  thought she should do. So now I am 5 days away from her moving to Hattiesburg. I think not only am I going to miss her so much but also I will not be telling her what to wear, where to be, what to eat and what to drink. Man what to do! I just turned the big 40! I am 40 and have no children at home! One of my best friends recently told me I will be living every womans dream. Let's see!