Good-byes

I hate saying good bye. What does that even mean "good bye"? It sounds like you are saying "good... now leave". Eli left back for Louisville. He had a week off and now he goes back to an internship. Its his last one. Hope's birthday was yesterday. Everyone is getting so old! Eli is 21 now, Hope is 19. I was talking to my mom about how we are no longer a "young" family. I remember going to other people's houses and they talked about their children in college and I thought that was so weird, but now that's us. Next year is my final year here. That just sounds so bizarre. I miss not having them around. I really get in their faces when they are home, but when they leave it seems so empty. I think dad is really missing them. Last Sunday Eli and I were sitting in a pew and dad came up to us and asked where Hope was and she had went back to Bowling Green already and it was completely strange. I think everything is starting to hit him. Everything is changing.