Hot Flashes AND Flashbacks?

Took a day trip several hours north yesterday to see dd23's new apartment. She was just going up there to sign the lease, so I came along and kept her company. Her actual move is this weekend.

While I was in her new apartment, my menopausal sentimentality hit a new low. She'd left the lease on the kitchen counter, and when I saw her signature, I flashed back to when she first learned to write in cursive. I used A Reason For Writing to teach my older three children how to print and write, and I can still recall how happy dd was whenever she got a border sheet to write on. She never wrote any more words than she had to, but she loved coloring in the border decorations, and adding a few of her own to personalize her work.

Like I said, this sentimental thing is getting out of control......but we homeschool moms sure enjoy our memories :)