Sad Day

Today is a very sad day. My son moved to Idaho today. Just up and moved. It would be one thing if he'd moved across town but he moved across the COUNTRY! He's never lived more than 10 miles from me. I'm not sure how I feel about it. He never really talked about it with me. He just said he was going and he went. He's sitting at the MSP International Airport right now waiting for his flight. He didn't ask me to take him to the airport but I think that would have been really tough on both of us. He's going to Nampa, a town west of Boise. I don't know who he's going out there to live with. He says he has a buddy there but then I heard from one of his friends that there's a girl out there too. I hope he's not going for the wrong reasons. But he's 21 and it's his life. He knows he can move home if he needs to. The first thing he needs to do is get a job out there. No one will let him live for free. He will discover the same problems he had here will be there. He moved in one duffel bag and one small carry on. Kind of sad that everything he has that he values fit into two bags. Basically he took clothes and his movies. That's it. Talk about starting fresh. I will miss him terribly but I won't miss his asking for money I don't have. I have to admit it's pretty gutsy. I don't know if I could have moved that far away from my family. I hope he stays safe. I know he doesn't use his head all the time. I think I'll sit here quietly for a while and contemplate life's changes.