21.01.2019- Our girl leaves home for college after Christmas break

No mid-day snack plates in the sink, no half-drunk juice and soda glasses around, no hand towels left unattended in the bathroom, my slippers are in place and so is the laundry! No adapters around the living room and precariously kept laptops. All the papers have folded themselves and have been filed and the wardrobe closed only to be opened again in Summer! A day when a little girl running around the house shall cross my mind more than ever and a young lady hugging her dad at the airport and saying- I'll call you after I land baba- shall keep crossing his. A day he will track the San Francisco flight as I place only three plates for dinner while our sunny boy´s dimples disappear. A parent´s shared look of pride and pain. A mother´s peep through the door as she held her brother tightly in the wee hours of the morning. A dad´s smile as she takes her suitcase away lest it's too heavy for him! Another day when I work less and write more and he eats less and works more!