Moving Day

Moving-to-college day came with more emotions than I knew what to do with. I was unprepared with how hard it is to have a child to move out. I had many a good cry for about a week.  Thankfully they have tapered off. This is good mission prep---for mom!

This organized kid had his boxes all packed and labeled when he brought them upstairs.  They were labeled: Office, Library, Janitorial Closet, Narnia, Parallel Universe and Iron Chef--all true to Cache-fashion!

So how is college life treating him? Very well!


He added and dropped classes a few times in order to create a sufficent academic challenge, but now he is loving it.  (Although he says it is way easier than high school and he has to find lots of things to do to fill his time--I think he wishes there was more school to do, yet he is nervous to add more credits his first semester because of his scholarship requirements.)  He is loving access to such a great library.  He is loving the freedom of being a young adult.  And he is loving cooking.  We stopped by after Caleb's race last Saturday to take him grocery shopping. He purchased food to make Hot stuffed Peppers, Chicken with Red Pepper and Asparagus, Roasted Cauliflower, Broccoli and Cashews, Black Pepper Chicken, Ravioli Soup, Fried Rice and Fried Zucchini.  Cooking has been one of his favorite parts of college.  He is eating very well!  (His groceries were about $36, and he says these menus will feed him for a couple of weeks so  he was pretty happy about the cost too--always conservative!)


He has joined an English group, was adopted into a Physics group, and is involved with events regarding his scholarship.  His calling is FHE coordinator for his group.  His FHE agenda is as follows: Hangman, Debate, Interesting Read of the Week, and Poetry Corner (he says he is trying to encourage literacy---mostly for his over-gaming roommates!)  To a normal person, this agenda may sound a little on the boring side.  But knowing Cache, it will be hilarious and very entertaining every time.  The debate topic he told us about last week was whether or not unicorns could be other colors than white.  The arguments sounded very humorous!  (In a texting conversation, I asked him if he was planning on doing other things for FHE, his response was:  "The official agenda may be added to, but only through a rigorous vetting process.  And hey, I don't tell you how to be Primary President."  Okay, Cache, I'll give you space.)


He's been generous to send a few 'newsy' emails.  Here are a few gems from them:


~The intramural sports program does not offer intramural polo, in case you were wondering.


~My new toothbrush is a bit too aggressive for my taste, but it should mellow out soon.


~My Writing and Rhetoric book arrived yesterday from the Allen family in Ogden. They wished me luck, but I don't know why. There's no way they could have known that I'm using the book for college and not just because I wanted it.


~The subject line of one of his emails was:  "The letter to the editor titled 'Invited to a Tea Party' contained a little more than party-line rhetoric."  So did that letter, incidentally."


~The piano player in my sacrament meeting is great. He always plays the hymns 10 clicks faster than normal, so instead of taking forever to sing all four verses of "I Believe in Christ," it only takes a few minutes. Plus, he doesn't wait for a member of the bishopric to stand up before he stops playing the prelude music. He stops exactly at 1:30 and then sits down.


~I still don't know what my major is, but everyone continues to ask me anyway.


~From a text in response to me asking about the devotional this week:  "I like Elder Andersen.  He did well today.  I didn't see his Avalon, though."


Man, I miss that kid!  But, I'm thankful he is having this wonderful opportunity and I'm also thankful he is letting me still be connected to him.  All is well!