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Elizabeth,
I am praying for you and your whole family. What wonderful news for Michael! Please know that he is always welcome in our home if he needs a crazy-kid fix or a home-cooked meal...we are only 25 minutes from the UD campus (no traffic) and we'd love to help out however we can...
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Elizabeth wrote:
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Told you... 
Cry. You've earned it.
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MacBeth wrote:
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| ...but I opened that big box from the University of Dallas so that I could have my cry before he gets home. |
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Told you...
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You sure did. The mailman arrived now more than ten minutes after we got off the phone.
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Me too! 
Congrats Michael and family!
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Wow, that's fantastic news! I really haven't been following his process but this one caught my eye-only b/c I graduated from UD
Going there was a bit of an eye opener at first after coming from Seton (as far as family backgrounds/faith goes-there's a mixed bag of everything) but I thank God almost everyday that I did go there and if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing!
Congratulations and I'll keep you guys in my prayers!
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Congratulations to you both!
Even though we all know this day will come for our kids, it doesn't make it any easier.  No poetic words of comfort here, just prayers and understanding.
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Elizabeth,
I only "know" you through this forum and your blog and book but I'm sitting here crying with you!  I have a few years before I have to think about college, but boy do I dread it already.
Congratulations to all the Foss family!
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Elizabeth:
Congratulations to Michael. For us it was hardest the first couple of months, then most of the time it is Ok.
I still unconsciously count heads going into church or looking around the table and have been known to ask - who is missing? My dd laughs too every time we drop her back off at school after breaks - my dh is looking at the time and I just am not ready to leave but know we have too. My dd tells dh to pick me up some doughnuts on the way home (we don't really but it is code for mom is sad). You cry because you are so proud of what they have accomplished and so happy for them - and by golly you do miss them. It was actually hardest on our littlest. He was our dd shadow and now informs everyone about the details of her roommate, etc., etc. but you can see the little pangs of sadness and confusion - where is she sleeping tonight, etc. We call each other every week (usually we let her call us on weekends because she knows when she is free and we don't know how hectic things are) but we e-mail all the time. It helps to be in touch. We are not good at mailing stuff and dd almost never is at that end of campus so we normally try to take special things to her once in a while (especially before midterms or finals) and I try to attend all of her concerts - a bit tougher when you consider whether or not it will work with the 3 yo in concert but I've made most so far - but she is closer so it isn't impossible for us.
It is funny how people think we are not willing to let them go because we don't send them off to school at 3, 6 or high school - gosh they're going to cling to you forever if you don't push them out the door or they have to learn how to handle the world, yet when they do go off to college folks are in shock or wonder why they are going so far or to such an environment... It is all in due time.
Anyways - we are very happy for you and will offer a small prayer for that definite adjustment and sadness (I was always like JO in Little Women - why do things have to change). I still cry some and a few nights I've been awake worried - just take it as need for prayer and pray for her protection and safety and send my guardian angel to help out too. They are always our babies - even though we have to let go and not show the worry as much. But you know all that.
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Conrats and hugs. I know the tears but there is also joy in seeing them grow up and be independent away from home...
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Elizabeth,
I'm thrilled for Michael and full of understanding for you. I can understand his need to strike out on his own - I badgered my parents until they let me study in Ireland as a high school junior - and I bless them every day, still, for having the courage to let me go. I hope I didn't let them down, and I am pretty sure your Michael is feeling the same way right now...proud, excited, and wanting to do his best to make his family happy and proud, both now and in the future.
I am so, so grateful you have shared your college-bound-senior-parent journey with us all. I am sure I'm not alone in thinking Michael is destined for great things.
You are all in my prayers as you continue Michael's amazing journey...and if we ever achieve my dh's dream of retiring in Italy, he can come and practice Italian in the Old Country and we'll look after him. (We'll have to see how that dream goes because we have parents to think of, college to save for, etc., but my dh has a way of making things happen...)
Lots of prayers - of thanksgiving AND petition - are headed Heavenward on your behalf, from me!
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Elizabeth,
Our family prayers are with you. My oldest will go in a couple of years!
You are our mentor and I appreciate how you always open up yourself with no reserve. You pave the way for us and I am thankful of how God always uses you for ALL of us.
Sometimes I ponder how it will be when the first one goes and we sit in church with only four. I'm the weepy type and my heart goes out to you.
We are in Vermont but we are looking at colleges in Virgina. Also, Boston is another possibility and a lot closer.
You are so blessed to have another baby in your arms again!
(I love your blog site. I read the babybaby one and had a good cry)
Heart and soul!
God bless you and your family:)
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Elizabeth wrote:
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Oh my, sometimes we just can't win, can we? 
Elizabeth, my mother's heart goes out to you. My second son got married this summer (he commuted for college) and I cried ( A LOT!) happy tears, sad tears, you name it. I want to give you some hope, it DOES get easier. Eventually The end of an era is never easy, especially one that we have enjoyed so much.
You are a wonderful mother and I have a feeling that you will deal with this situation with prayers and grace, just as you have in the past. I will be praying right along with you. 
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I can't stand it! I have about 7-8 years before this is me and I'm already crying here. . .
In fact, anytime I read anything about Michael: his Mother's Day table, his last hand made nativity, etc. I'm in tears.
I don't ever want them to grow up!!
(Sorry, I don't really belong here on this forum but I confess to voyeurism trying to prepare myself ).
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Elizabeth,
Chin up. (Days later, I'm sure you have reached this point!)
Congratulations to you and your family. I do hope lots of scholarship money comes through.
Last summer, my oldest was accepted to Ave Maria (which is 745.6 miles door-to-door from our house). Then on a whim, dd#2 sent a hope-hearted app to Southern Catholic and was accepted and got a great aid package. (SCC is only 316 miles from here...) They had to leave on the same weekend. Dh took took one daughter and I took the other (I got to do the Florida trip )
It was an adjustment. BOTH my chef and my chief clean-up person & errand runner gone... Not to mention two of the best friends I can imagine. At once. Sigh. The little kids were sooooo heart broken. So I told them that this was our job - to miss them and to offer the sadness and the missing for them: for their spiritual growth, their physical safety and their homesickness. (Well, I said it in four-year-old...) So Dom (youngest ds) and I have this new job, because we will be here longest (God willing) and some days it really is a job! But then there are breaks and vacations and phone calls and IM and the absolute joy of seeing these wonderful young women grow and mature in wisdom, knowledge and grace (and a tiny bit of stature, much to their chagrin! ). I try to remember that the Sorrowful Mother suffered infinitely more than I and that if She could do what She did, surely I can smilingly let my children go to places that are so good for them.
Wait til you see how great this adventure is for your Michael. The tears will become tears of joy and wonder at the goodness of the Lord. My best friend is a UD alum and her brother is as well. There are good things in store for your son there!
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PS: I so get the relatives thing....
Sheesh! one cannot please these persons no matter what!
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Elizabeth, The University of Dallas is just minutes from where we live. My sister attended for graduate school. Let me know if I can help in any way.
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So...now he's re-thinking the whole thing and apparently some of the coaches who weren't interested last fall are re-thinking as well. Stay tuned. I hope we reach the final chapter of this continuing chapter soon.
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Elizabeth wrote:
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My step-daughter is still on the fence too. Georgia Southern offered her a scholarship for volleyball last Fall, but now has offered her a FULL-RIDE, but others are still in the offering stance too, so she doesn't know what to do....and there are all those crazy NCAA rules about how and when you can talk ot the folks and when to sign and blah blah blah..... this could go on for months!
Prayers for you and Michael that it resolves soon!
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Well, look at the bright side, at least he has options from which to choose! That is great!
I will pray for him to come to a final decision that he is sure of. I know how hard indecision can be.
Hang in there!
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It isn't uncommon for college atheletes to not know or have a firm commitment until the last minute. We'll keep praying!
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