Yesterday we were here. Whenever I return it feels a lot like coming home and in a way it always will. This was my home for five years, the beginning of my adulthood. I met my soulmate here. Cherished friendships began here. Many lessons were learned here. To see the Girl running across this expansive lawn, the one that I myself crossed nearly every day for five years, filled my heart with joy. Back then I couldn't have imagined how rich my life would be now and that I would come back here with precious little ones. Of course I had dreamed and aspired but did not know then what my life would be in ten years. To share this campus and it's beautiful, stately brick buildings with my Girls means so much to me. To walk up the
main thoroughfare through campus, clutching their small hands in mine instead of a stack of books was foreign yet comfortably familiar.
And this particular spot, in front of the library, is just steps away from the spot where J was standing when he first noticed me
all those years ago (fourteen to be exact) and the same place where he proposed to me four years later. We were here, with the rest of
my family (also alumni) to watch the first home football game of the season. Of course that was after a trip to the Bookie to get all
decked out in the latest Cougar apparel. The sun was shining, the weather was absolutely gorgeous. Little Sister basked in one-on-one Aunt B time and quickly became proficient in the traditions of college football and had enthusiastically mastered the shark-jaw-clap (for lack of a better term - I'm sure there is one, I just don't know it) in no time at all. As for the Girl, well, what can I say...she was just being
her goofy, Knucklehead, little self as captured perfectly in this photo - one of my favorites among the multitude taken.
After a rocky start, the entire first half really, our boys...or I should say, our boys on defense pulled it together and made for an exciting if
not nail-biting fourth quarter.
We had a fabulous day and the Cougar victory, well that was just the icing on the cake.
Yesterday we were here. Whenever I return it feels a lot like coming home and in a way it always will. This was my home for five years, the beginning of my adulthood. I met my soulmate here. Cherished friendships began here. Many lessons were learned here. To see the Girl running across this expansive lawn, the one that I myself crossed nearly every day for five years, filled my heart with joy. Back then I couldn't have imagined how rich my life would be now and that I would come back here with precious little ones. Of course I had dreamed and aspired but did not know then what my life would be in ten years. To share this campus and it's beautiful, stately brick buildings with my Girls means so much to me. To walk up the
main thoroughfare through campus, clutching their small hands in mine instead of a stack of books was foreign yet comfortably familiar.
And this particular spot, in front of the library, is just steps away from the spot where J was standing when he first noticed me
all those years ago (fourteen to be exact) and the same place where he proposed to me four years later. We were here, with the rest of
my family (also alumni) to watch the first home football game of the season. Of course that was after a trip to the Bookie to get all
decked out in the latest Cougar apparel. The sun was shining, the weather was absolutely gorgeous. Little Sister basked in one-on-one Aunt B time and quickly became proficient in the traditions of college football and had enthusiastically mastered the shark-jaw-clap (for lack of a better term - I'm sure there is one, I just don't know it) in no time at all. As for the Girl, well, what can I say...she was just being
her goofy, Knucklehead, little self as captured perfectly in this photo - one of my favorites among the multitude taken.
After a rocky start, the entire first half really, our boys...or I should say, our boys on defense pulled it together and made for an exciting if
not nail-biting fourth quarter.
We had a fabulous day and the Cougar victory, well that was just the icing on the cake.
1 comment:
That looks like a great weekend! I have not been back yet. I think it would be very bittersweet for me. Bitter in that I should have stayed and enjoyed being away from home more. But very very sweet in that since I did not I met my soul mate and now have the beautiful life with my family that I do now.
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