George starts University..new seasons and beginnings

We are going to miss this girl so much.  It's been an intense couple of days. We headed north on Friday, and stopped overnight in Perth. Yesterday we were up with the lark travelling north again, to Aberdeen University.  It was a beautiful day, a perfect one to enjoy the stunning Scottish scenery unfurling before us. We stopped at Dundee for a lovely breakfast with a view.

After that we were just a few short miles from Aberdeen. I will never forget that last bit of the journey as we sang our hearts out to David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust'.
Once we found the area of her student accommodation there were loads of friendly helpers and endless freshers and parents all in the same boat... lugging heavy cases, boxes and bags about.

We unloaded the car and George did some unpacking.  She met two girls in her bit of accommodation, they have shared kitchen/ living space, and they seemed lovely (thank you God).

After that I took her for a quick shop and knew that then it was time for me to let her get on with it and me to make myself scarce. I managed to hold it together saying goodbye. Then off she went without a backwards glance, striding confidently into the next chapter of her life.
I shed some tears and set off south, all the while passing places we had taken the children on holiday when they were little and we lived in Scotland.  My head was full of pictures of young George and Dylan in Kirriemuir, Forfar, Glamis castle, Dundee to name a few.  Finally I reached the Borders, the place where she was born 18 years ago and drove past the hotel where we had had her christening party.
I travelled on,  to my dearest friend Susana's house in Selkirk, the town where our children spent the early years of their lives.  There was something weird and wonderful and therapeutic about taking her to University and then doing this kind of geographical journey down memory lane revisiting so many places of her childhood, right back to the place she was born.
I am officially exhausted... emotionally and physically....as well as being so proud and happy for our amazing, unique, funny, feisty, kind, considerate, gorgeous inside and out George, as she starts this new adventure and chapter in her life 💜

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