She said something in a voicemail message along these lines this week. She was saying how she hopes I'm having a good time in college, and that she can't wait to hear more about it.

My thought was, yea, okay...I appreciate you saying that, but really? There's no way you want to hear me droning on about college life...you've been there...you know how it goes. I thought she was just saying that to be nice...to think that she's really looking forward to hearing about my first week of college...I mean actually looking forward to it...yea right.

That was my first reaction. Then I thought back to all of the discussions about college before. She's been with me through the WHOLE process. She was there when I was applying, when I got accepted, when I was filling out residence, going to orientation, and everything. And she was just as excited as I was about it all. She shared my excitement, and from what I could tell, she liked hearing about my experiences with the various elements of preparing for college. That really reassured me to thinking, "hey, maybe she really is excited to hear about my first week of college...after all, she saw how hard I worked to get here, and she's been excited with me the whole way through, so why not now, too?"