Collateral Damage

It hadn't occured to me as my wife and I refocused on each other that our daughter would start to have trepidation about our leaving at the same time she does.
Yes. I guess we were very naive...

Maybe we were just too focused on trying to figure out the finances, the urgency of doing something before we cut to far into our savings trying to wait out the end of her final school year. Maybe we just didn't stop and think about how it would affect her. But it did...

She didn't say much, but I could see it in her eyes.
A few emotional outbursts in non critial times... like the morning of the garage sale to sell of mostly junk for 25 cents apiece when she didn't want to help.
It made us realize that this isn't trivial for her either.

Life is changing. The fact that she's leaving for college and probably never coming
home again for an extended period of time was not consoling.
She understands it..intellectually...but you could see it in her eyes.

Evidently, it's not an uncommon thing about kids leaving for college and expecting their home to stay exactly the same. Somebody was telling me about how its a freshman thing...to come back and compare experiences with her returning high school friends. Well, that probably won't be an option now that we're leaving too.

Despite the reality that we have to do something immediately to conserve cash for out of state tuition, it's also reality that our daughter's childhood home is also leaving town.

I hurt too when I saw it in her eyes.
We'll miss this place too.

But time will heal all...won't it?