Twelve years of school are winding to a close, college acceptance has been achieved, and vacation plans are now pen marked on the summer calendar. Relatives will be arriving this week for graduation celebrations and laughter will replace the hectic hurry of the school year. The squalor in the parlor has been neatly tidied and I am left to contemplate the simple joys in front of me.
Teal has always been my serenity color. It calms me. Soothing as the sea and crisp as line-dried linen, I could swim in this color forever. It is the siren shade of fresh starts and reminds me that I have two months before Baby Girl leaves home and starts her new life three hundred miles west in San Antonio. I think of all the blessings that have paved her path and I am so thankful for the journey of motherhood. Teal was Baby Girl's nursery color eighteen years ago, so perhaps it's no coincidence I am craving this color palette today.
She is wood and crystal. Stubborn, like her father, and beautiful (like her mother- snicker snicker snortle!)- she is a simple country girl with the complexity of prisms in sunlight. I don't worry about her going off to college because she is a traveler at heart- a student of the world and she is not one content to be confined. I know letting her go is the beginning to her own spectacular journey. So for the days and weeks ahead I will enjoy the simplicity, wander our vacation world, and enjoy every moment alongside the teal waters under the rotund Texas sun.
LOVE & LETTING GO
