Transferring college funds, applying for a UK Visa, completing twelve pages of student athlete health forms, looking for boots and coats on line: It just hit me Tony and David will be gone in the fall. We will not have the comfort of McCallie. It will be Christmas before I lay my eyes on these two amazing boys. And this house will be very quiet. Even though my boys went to boarding school, we are entering the phase of empty nesters. We will not be making the six hour trek to McCallie every couple of weeks, we may never know their friends as well as we did in high school, or the parents. But they will be off and starting their future with the best foundation we could offer.
And if Joe was here he would offer a few cryptic words of advice, a hug, a "see you soon" and then a glance over his shoulder as he always did for his brothers. Just one more look before they would disappear around the corner. He would be so proud of them. We are so proud of them.
We're going to band together this fall, support each other and love them like crazy from afar!
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