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6,393 days from her first breath to her college application

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6,393 days...

Today was bittersweet...

Today, my eldest pressed the submit button for college.

I need to let that marinate a bit since my heart is bubbling over with joy, while also taking a moment to recognize the ache in my heart.

6,393 days ago she took her first breath.

6,393 days ago I heard her first cry and smelled her sweet smell.

6,393 days ago she became my sweet cheeks and the first one along with me on this journey of being a mom.

For 6,393 I have inhaled all of her each day...

snuggles on the comfy spot of the couch...

hours upon hours searching for her special friend Piggy...

cheering along the sidelines of countless activities,

car rides filled with loud music, laughter and sharing...

car rides filled with silence, tears and staring out the window...

dance parties, so many dance parties...

and intense love...

And here we are today, 6,393 days later hitting the submit button for college applications...

I thought this day was going to be awful...

a day of longing and regret, for all of my mistakes, along with my could have/ should have moments, but honestly, it was a day filled with high fives and hugs.

We made it and we did it together,

never giving up on each other for 6,393 days.

So yeah, today was bittersweet...

and as I closed my eyes for the night, falling asleep long before the rest of the house, my heart didn’t ache as much...

and then a text, from down the hallway, from my seventeen year old sweetcheeks,

“Are you going to come tuck me in?”

and my heart melted yet again, as it did 6,393 days ago...

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