Wide Open Spaces...

My littlest sister Clarah left for BYU-Idaho yesterday. I miss Clarah already but I know she will have the time of her life. I always think of the Dixi Chick song "Wide Open Spaces" when kids go off to school. It just fits.
"She needs wide open spaces 
Room to make her big mistakes 
She needs new faces 
She knows the high stakes 

She traveled this road as a child 
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired 
But now she won't be coming back with the rest 
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test"

 For my mom and dad it is an end of an era, after raising kids for 36 years they are done. The years went by fast. I remember holding a 2 month old Clarah at my 2nd grade open house. I was so excited to show her off to all my friends. I drove away from saying goodbye, in tears of course, and looked back at my kiddos in their car seats. It will go by fast for me too.

At Clarah's graduation in June

Find Clarah's name

I feel better knowing that the two of them are together and can take care of each other

Caity "Guess what?! A boy just texted me" 

Clarah "I have no boys"

But Clarah... you will in just a short time! I love you and live it up