Letting Go

I have previously shared with you my holiday tradition of listening to WGN's Kathy and Judy host their "Merry Medical Christmas". They also have a traditional show at this time of year that I try to listen to annually. It is there "Letting Go" show. Parents taking their children to college call in and share stories of how they are feeling. This has expanded to include mothers sending their kids to Kindergarten and the like. This year's show is Friday, August 18 at 10:00 a.m. on WGN 720, also available online at www.wgnam.com

If you have ever left home or sent a child away to college or will one day, this show will touch you. I remember being home numerous summers and hearing this show only to find myself sitting alone in my room in tears. It still breaks me up to remember those feelings of leaving and letting go. Throughout the show they also play a Suzy Bogguss song - that probably is the reason I cry each year. The lyrics are below.

Letting Go
She'll take the painting in the hallway,
The one she did in jr. high
And that old lamp up in the attic,
She'll need some light to study by.

She's had 18 years to get ready for this day
She should be past the tears, she cries some anyway

Oh oh letting go
There's nothing in the way now,
Oh letting go, there's room enough to fly
And even though, she's spent her whole life waiting,
It's never easy letting go.

Mother sits down at the table
So many things she'd like to do
Spend more time out in the garden
Now she can get those books read too.

She's had 18 years to get ready for this day
She should be past the tears, she cries some anyway.

Oh oh letting go
There's nothing in the way now,
Oh letting go, there's room enough to fly
And even though, she's spent her whole life waiting,
It's never easy letting go.

Oh oh letting go
There's nothing in the way now,
Oh letting go, there's room enough to fly
And even though, she's spent her whole life waiting, It's never easy letting go.