Our first child goes to college

This weekend, my wife, my son, and I brought my daughter Katie to college to begin her first year. As with millions of parents before us, we ran the full gamut of emotions but ultimately I think it went well in that regard. We haven’t lost a daughter, we’ve gained a daughter in college. We live in western upstate New York and the trip to Chicago is a bit shy of 600 miles (966 kilometers). Since we were going to have to travel on Friday anyway, we picked up our son after school on Thursday and