[Marilyn]

It's not that I don't want them to leave. Karen, our oldest was a lot like Diana's Dae Lynn in many respects. She had been in and out of our home depending on where she went to college, too. When she was home after living away, there were conflicts with rules and I worried about her a lot when she was out late. Karen will turn 23 this year, is attending her 3rd college (she took one course a a 4th but that does not really count). Now she is in a really good place, with a direction and an end to her education in site. She transferred with her employer, and the new branch is not the same as the other one. Much larger, but they don't follow the rules and this is bothering her. She has to make her own way, and is where I want her to be, but it's still hard. If she'd stayed in our home much longer, we'd have been asking her to leave, I'm sure. Tink, this is just life.

Knowing this is not a fix though. I'm still weepy this morning. I just wanted to pull the covers over my head and tell the world to go away, but can't do that. Must get up, go to work. Zoe was barking to be let out. Life must go on and they must grow up.

I need to focus on things like Genesis 27:46 when Rebekah expresses her disappointment and frustration with her daughters-in-law, the wives of Esau. It helps us to realize that none of this is new. Women have been going through these same feelings from the beginning of time. But it's still not easy.