For the better part of the last week or so, X1 has been driving to various college around the country with kid 1. They’ve been doing the college tour rounds, since kid 1 will be starting his senior year of high school this fall.
Apparently, they decided they were going to camp out as they go from place to place. I think they legitimately wanted to do some camping, but I also think it was a cost-saving measure.
I have kid 2 this week and we decided we were going to meet up with them in Illinois. I figured I would get a hotel room for two nights and invited them to stay over the second night, just to get out of the outdoors for a night: get a good shower, sleeping and soft bed, etc.
It’s weird because after kid 1 and I did the tour of University of Illinois, all four of us had lunch together. It was a really strange sensation. I love having both boys together. Surprisingly, it hasn’t been completely awkward with X1 present. I got my boys together. I don’t care who else was around.
X1 and I get along and everything. We’re civil toward each other. We probably get along better now than we did for the last few years that we were married. I’m not saying that we feel like some sort of blended family, but it’s a little awkward. I felt like I’m kind of playing house with them. It was pleasant. It was fun. It’s just having the boys together and being able to see them interact. To be honest, that alone is worth dealing with the awkwardness of having X1 around. This is definitely uncharted territory for me. On stranger tides, indeed.
Sitting there at the college tour today with Kid 1, it was kind of surreal. First, of course, the idea of thinking that even one of your kids is getting ready to go to college is a little bit of a mind job. But I couldn’t help, but also think about the irony of being on a college tour. I don’t think I’ve ever disclosed it here on the blog before, but X1 and I actually met when we attended a one-day orientation at the college we went to back in the day.
I can completely imagine what Mother and The Old Man were feeling like the day that I went to my college tour all many moms ago. At least kid 1 wasn’t picking up any girls today.
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