A highlight of Natalie's day is going to the child watch area of the YMCA while Corey (and, occasionally, I) works out. Recently, one of her favorite child watch employees left her summer job at the Y to return to college. This threw our little girl for a bit of a loop.
During the drive home, she asked if she ever had to go away to college. Corey said, yes, she'd probably go away to college. Natalie quickly admitted that she didn't want to go away to college. Corey insisted that she didn't really need to make a decision about that today and that, when the time came, she'd probably change her mind and be excited to go. Natalie disagreed.
The next day, she came up to me out of the blue with tears in her eyes and said she didn't want to go away to college and wanted to live at home forever. This puzzled me for a few reasons...first, I was not part of the car conversation the day before so I didn't even know that Natalie knew what college was. Second, most days, Natalie (with her heavy sighs and eye rolling) acts as though this is the most unfair and un-fun place to live and I thought surely, when she heard about an opportunity to move out and make her own rules, she'd ask me to make a countdown chain.
Her reasons for wanting to stay at home forever were pretty cute: she wanted to keep checking out books at the library every week with Audrey, visiting her friend Libby's house and going to preschool.
It's nice to know she's actually happy here.
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