Looking at Facebook and Instagram this week to see all of the first day-week of school pictures had me in my feelings for a moment, realizing Joshua is no longer in grade school; he is officially a college student. Wow - he is on a new path and it happened all so fast. We had plans as soon as he started high school and that was -you are going to AWAY to college. So get comfortable with the idea buddy, I used to say.. I was determined that he was going to experience what I didn't. Campus life with all the fixins. I strongly believed I missed out on steps of independence by not living on campus or going out of state for college. Yup, so he was getting out of here just to have a taste of life even if he decided to come home after a semester or two. So in true form as the project planning queen that I am, we had a whole college application map put together. We carved out colleges prioritized by major, region, cost, etc. After 22 college ...