“Oh, I danced with Cinderella! I didn’t miss even one song. Then all too soon the clock did strike midnight, and she … was … gone!”
Meanwhile, although I’m going to drop this here tonight, I’ll have to circle back around to the words I’ll need to properly memorialize this bittersweet day my nest officially emptied. I knew this day was fast approaching. I just didn’t know it would actually be this soon.
How ironic is it that only hours ago I dropped a comment on a fellow squirrel mom’s post about her preparing to slowly begin letting go of her rehabbed fur babies?
Granted, and as you can see from my Life360 screenshot, she’s only 3.5 miles away.
But nevertheless …
the clock has indeed struck midnight for this widowed and now empty-nested momma.
Here’s to the next open pages and chapters for us to write in separate—but also very much not separated—castles.
As for now, I think I’m going to allow myself to sob myself to sleep uncontrollably … because even though this is the way it’s always supposed to be, that doesn’t mean it can’t rip my actual heart out momentarily.
Goodnight everyone, it’s me, CAT!
