back to school for mom?

With a tween and a teenager at home, I have decided to go back to school! Is this a way to avoid the next year of hormones I have coming to me? No. You might guess that, but I am really going to miss the kids. Really. I'm off to teacher's college - something I've always wanted to do - which wouldn't be such a big deal but it's 3 HOURS away...which means I'm staying out of town for multiple nights. ARGH! I'm never away that much. In the summer I took an additional course and this was a good trial but what a week to start out - same time as my son's grade 8 graduation and the last day of school. My daughter leaving her elementary school, where I have volunteered and worked and made friends. Big steps in both their lives. I have NEVER missed a last or first day of school for the kids. I'm sort of a stickler for stuff like that. So, I enlisted my husband to take the traditional photographs and even video tape. I was really hoping we could Skype in real time but the wireless wouldn't reach that far. :) OK, maybe that would be a bit much. I drove home for my son's graduation and then got up early the next morning and was to school by 9:30. I was SO tempted to skip the day and be there for that 3:25 bell but I didn't. I stuck it out in school with my heart breaking just a bit.

I think being away will be more difficult than being in school.