questionably random and definitely more than 5 ...

We are a day away from our daughter boarding a plane to fly across the planet to another world.

We are freaking out at fitting a year's worth of clothing into one suitcase - 50 pounds or less and the suggestion to pack light and get what you need once there only works if you fall into the average female range of 5'2".

FACT: I have only birthed Godzilla sized kids - no one has been 5'2" since grade school.

Knowing that she is to meet up with someone when she arrives in the airport in Tokyo to make her way to the college campus has only slightly put me more at ease about this whole thing.

Does she need to take cotton-swabs? Why am I worried about this?

What does Japan have against Tylenol? ... or was it Excedrin....Advil... gah !

What the crap was I drinking when I said study abroad was a brilliant idea? 

The same day she leaves, my baby boy turns 18. 

At some point between now and then I have to make the best damn chocolate cream-cheese cake ever!
(he was mad at me recently and announced that a friend's mom had made the "best chocolate cake he had ever had in his life!" ... he said this knowing that I am the woman who has made him a chocolate cake for his birthday since the day he was born. --- yea, this must be avenged!) 

I haven't gotten him a birthday gift yet.

It has nothing to do with the chocolate cake comment.

To add insult to injury - his father and I will be attending the University's first football game that night and there is no way I can miss it. {we have been beside the same people for over 20 years - trust me, they will let you know about it if you miss a game. It took years before they stopped ribbing me for missing Howard University's "Ooh La La Girls"' when I was out for surgery} 

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when we started this process I felt like butterfly #1 - wings intact and giddy with honeysuckle.  

I am quickly approaching butterfly #2 status - frayed and a little worse for wear.

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