Tomorrow I move "Baby B" into her new campus apartment. We have spent the past week staging and stacking everything that she will need in our garage. Oh and don't worry, I have secretly packed a new, full box of Kleenex in my car as I know what's coming...at me!
Last night we had our annual "back-to-school" family dinner out. We started that tradition when we moved to Colorado, and I have no idea why or how it started...but it is without a doubt our tradition that the girls look forward to every year.
When the girls moved out last year into their own apartment, they started giving me bags of clothes that they wanted to donate. I kept seeing their old schools and volleyball t-shirts and I just couldn't depart with them. I didn't know what I would do with them, but in the back of my mind, I knew I had to hold on to these memories for some reason.
...and that's when I saw it. I was online and saw an advertisement for Project Repat. They are a company in the U.S. that makes custom quilts out of your t-shirts!
They give you excellent, detailed instructions on what you need to do prior to sending in your t-shirts to them for your order.
So, I have (secretly) spent the past year going through their "donation" bags and hiding all their past t-shirts. I also had to fill in the missing ones with their favorite teams, college tees, favorite restaurants, first jobs, concerts, etc...
The time came for me to send Project Repat the packages and I was so excited. Six weeks later, packages arrived, and I was like a little girl on Christmas morning!
Last night after dinner, we finally gave the girls their quilts and they were speechless! Mission accomplished!!
God Bless you ladies as you continue your education and next chapter...you got this!
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