Not so bad after all..

Its been 5 days since Venti moved out and I've had a chance to let my brain process the whole thing and I've come to find out that its not so bad after all!

Moving day was uneventful and everything went smooth.

 I helped Mocha organize the kitchen and the bedrooms because this is how it looked when I got there:

I hung up all Venti's shirts for him.  I put away all his stuff in the bathroom.  I showed Mocha how to do their first load of laundry which surprised me that she didn't know!  Or maybe she acted like she didn't know.  She did say that my laundry always smells so good and so she wanted theirs to smell that way too, so I took that as a compliment!

While we did that, Venti and Mocha's Dad and Joe hung the TV on the wall while his 3 friends and Short watched:

They had alot alittle trouble hanging the TV!





















His friends had to test out the guest room:

Venti and Mocha came home on Sunday for the Memorial Day picnic and then stayed over at her house and left on Monday night.

I didn't cry when I left the apartment the day he moved in.

I haven't cried since last week when I told Venti how much I was going to miss him...he hugged me and said, "Mom...its ok...I'm only 1 hr and 15 minutes away...plus we will come home lots!"

Yesterday Joe and I cleaned out his room.  We boxed up the things that he left and stored them for him.  I was actually excited to get my office back as we have a 4 bedroom house so his room was the office.

So I've come a long way since last week.  I don't get all chocked up when I think about it.  He called today to find out how I make these certain kind of potatoes which made me feel good.  They are coming home again this weekend too!

So life does go on...I've found out that its not the end of our immediate family...its just a different chapter.